2010 - Volume #34, Issue #6, Page #21
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Food For A Barn Raising
"I was recently going through an old hand-written recipe book that belonged to my great-grandmother and found a listing that gave me a great peek into the past," says Rachel Martin, Charles City, Iowa."Barn raisings were quite the events during those early years of our country. When a new barn needed to be built, all the neighbors and friends would get together on one day to put it up. This still happens in some communities where people are neighborly.
"I was astounded by the amount of food that was prepared in one day by the women. Here's the list I found under the heading, Food For A Barn Raising":
• 15 lemon pies
• 500 doughnuts
• 15 large cakes
• 3 gallons apple sauce
• 3 gallons corn starch pudding
• 16 chickens
• 3 hams
• 50 lbs. roast beef
• 300 light rolls
• 16 loaves bread
• 1 crock red beet pickles
• 1 crock pickeled eggs
• 1 crock cucumber pickles
• 6 lbs. dried prunes, stewed
• 1 large crock stewed raisins
• 5 gal. stone jar white potatoes
• 5 gal. stone jar sweet potatoes
Provides enough food for 115 men.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rachel Martin, 1604 Windfall Ave., Charles City, Iowa 50616.
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