Old-timey foods that I miss [View all]

My grandparents raised just about anything they needed for a full and wholesome diet. I miss paw paw season and my grandmother making paw paw butter from the ripened, banana-like fruits. The wild blackberries made into everything from jams to medicinal potions. Black walnut cake... huckleberries and gooseberries... a big pot of Kentucky pole beans simmering on the stove along with a good portion of fatback... picking a patch of kale after the first frost... hot corn pone from a cast iron skillet... delicate cakes of sweet, homemade butter wrapped in wax paper... getting a treat of the honeycomb suspended in a blue mason jar full of just-harvested honey... cherry picking for the cobblers and the aroma of fried apple pies...

How about you??