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The Healthy Granny’s Kitchen

Filed under: GrannyX Approves, GrannyX Loves Vita-Mix @ August 22, 2007 10:26 am by healthiacynthia

My grannies each spent a lot of their day in their kitchens.

My dad’s mom had a nice modern house with a kitchen that she had some input into designing. I like to think back to the big farmhouse kitchen, though, when I remember Grandma R. The windows above the sink looked out to the grainery and beyond to her beloved vegetable garden where she grew asparagas when many people on the prairies didn’t even know what it was.

She also had huge flour bins built in around the kitchen sink. I’m not sure how much flour each one held, but probably around 100# I’m guessing. She baked wonderful “brown bread” when most people had switched to store-bought white bread.

She also had a ‘root cellar’ which was a sort of small, unfinished basement… unfinished in that it showed off the roots of surrounding plants where more modern cellars would be covered in with cement. She did a lot of preserving of fruits and veggies. I think of her canned crabapples, for example. The favorite of all time preserves, for me at least, was the root beerthat she made a couple of times in my memory. Maybe it was called root beer because my Granny stored it in her root cellar?

I don’t believe that Granny R. had too many fancy appliances. I remember a meat grinder that you screwed on to a counter, and a jelly-making frame with a muslim bag hanging from it when it was jelly-making season. In the old farmhouse I don’t actually recall her using an electric beater– just a manual hand-held one, and the old-time potato smashers and doodads for making pie crust. She probably had a bottle capper for making the root beer. Oh, yeah, there was a cream separator…. but when I was a child they no longer had a milk cow.

In general, my Granny R.’s kitchen was a fascinating place. I imagine if she was my age today she would have all the bells and whistles of mod-con kitchens. I’m pretty sure that she would have a Vita-Mix, because that is one muscular health-providing machine that no kitchen should be without!

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