DAILY DOGGIE - NOV 22, 2025 (by Carlene White)

 

11 22 why is it...... nearly all the articles on the internet about food storage begin with the words “THE AMISH HAVE PERFECTED THE ART OF...” FROM SAVING SEEDS AND SHARING THEM TO BOILING BELL JARS... and I am positive the amish have done that.... I don’t know why we don’t pay a little more aTTENTION TO THE AMISH –I have had some business “doings” with the amish—and every one of those “doings” went exactly as planned... from things you might have expected --Like making harness. Done by smuckers harness maker on route 23 in Pennsylvania--to our beautiful picnic tables--to our Large quantity of chain link fence -- The workmanship has been superb--and done on time on schedule and most of the time for cash-- I don't even ask if they take credit cards I know many stories about dealing with the Amish---my father's favorite is the time when hershey's chocolate company some of the people there went on strike and set up a barrier of people so that trucks could not get into deliver goods to hersheys but the Amish hooked up pair of draft horses and rode right into that with a rifle across their lap and nobody's stopped them from delivering their goods... one Very basic Amish philosophy is that nothing must be wasted---And as the story went if the milk products the Amish had to deliver to hershey's got wasted that was a huge sin Whereas shooting somebody in the process it was not such A sin so all the strike people got out of the way no problem--- let the Amish deliver..

 

These articles that I'm watching I don't know whether you can get them or not I am on the Roku whatever and the blurb says 200 IQ. And another talks of food preservation over centuries. I mean the Amish have things to do with the potato peelings. There's another interesting use of straw both underneath their  grow vegetable gardens to using bales of straw around the foundation to keep out the draft and insulate the house.- I am thinking what a tremendous waste of intellectual capabilities in the fact that teenagers do not spend at least one summer working with the amish. From making wooden wheels to pealing onions.. there is sooooo much they have figured out- but the rest of the world is stuck on the faxt that THEY DON’T DRIVE CARS AND USE HORSES. the fact that their children are taught to work   which is a valuable learning tool itself 

 

Now I watched so much food preparation that I have called Gwen and asked her to bring my mother's recipe file, it was very interesting that when we were dismantling my parents home--The three daughters of which I am the youngest got to pick one item on a rotation basis And the first thing I chose was my mother's recipe file--My mother's education at vassar Provided her with a terrific ability to organize a kitchen and cooking with chemistry type stuff. But my parents had company over for dinner very often almost like weekly Saturday nights and she kept a file of who came what she served and what they liked and didn't like and a very small spiral notebook that fit in the recipe file with all the 3 by 5 cards all carefully handwritten whatever. I was growing up during the second war with all the restrictions and lack of food and tearing off tiny pieces of tinfoil to make into a ball and give it to the army- We did not have any fancy cooking utensils that they now sell but we had a vegetable garden there was about 10 feet by 80 feet and she constantly canned whatever came out of that garden which was our meals I specifically remember a corn relish which was basically her way of canning some corn which was a spoonful of vegetables with our meals... I remember those bell jars and the lids which must be collapsed inward to complete the seal----and things like melted paraffin on top of the jellies and jams---and it all went in our preserve closet in the cellar

So maybe I have a little bit of the food preservation knowledge which is what the Amish seemed to excel in so I have asked Gwen to bring mothers complete recipe file which I'd be happy to share with anybody if they happen to figure out a way to do that electronically