[Kitchen Witch]

To JulyGal57: I haven't moved yet (sob sob sob) but I am ready to retrieve my toys and bring them back home so I can play with them (cookbooks)!! LOL !!!

Unfortunately - I would need a moving van to do it!!! I don't mind recipes that use mixes - I make my own anyway. Cripe - we never had store-bought bread in my house until I was a teenager! Our first loaf was Wonder Bread. Felt odd not having that "feel" of bread as I knew it. And it had no "substance" to it! It was so "airy"! Sure, I will buy some bread at the store - but I was raised seeing bread made 365 days a year! If you wanted bread - you made it. If you wanted anything - you made it! If you didn't make it - you went without. It makes you a survivor - independent. No matter what happens - when you cook from scratch - you can still survive. Just like during the depression - people knew how to survive.

And just like you said - there is a big difference in taste, texture and quality - but when you grow accustomed to it - you spoil yourself and that is what you want. I prefer eating at home to eating out. Restaurants today are so geared into the "fast-food syndrome" that they really don't make much from scratch - if they make anything from scratch.

Along with depression era recipes - I will dig out recipes from the 40's, 50's - when women still did home cooking.

Happy "good ol' fashioned" cooking!

Kitchen Witch