Dinner

Have you ever ate stewed squirrel and dumplings?
Long ago dad would go squirrel hunting and bring home 4 or 5 squirrels. Mother would put them in a pot and boil them for several hours, nothing is as tuff as an adult squirrel. When the meat was falling off the bone she would add dumplings and this was a dish fit for a king.
Did you know a red squirrel's bones have a red caste and the grey squirrel's bones are white?
If daddy was lucky and got young squirrels we had Fried squirrel.We didn't get much meat in those years and fried meat was heavenly.
In the spring Clayton would set a old hen if one went broody and when these young chickens were big enough for a mouth full we killed a couple and mother fried them.
Young cotton tail rabbits were on our table when dad could find them. They usually were fried because the rabbits even as adults were fairly tender.
Sometimes dad would butcher hogs and salt the meat, I still like salt meat wrapped in a biscuit.
On the average we had oat meal for breakfast, beans and mashed potatoes for dinner and corn bread and milk for our supper. We alway had food just not very rich foods. this probably was a good thing because since we have grown up most of us really like to eat and we pretty well can have what we want so we do eat high on the hog.