Originally Posted by KyKaren1949
Without a refrig or ice box, how did you keep perishables from spoiling??
(This is an interesting thread.)
Meats were cured or smoked. Our family had a smoke house----I remember we made sausage and smoked it--------was that good. And hams adn shoulders were cured with brown sugar and salt peter adn whatever else. I'm 63 and our family got electricity when I was tiny!
Most veggies were canned. In our celler (dirt floor and stone walls) we had a potato bin and shelves for the canned food.
Of course we had cows------so we had fresh milk. And butter after removing the creama and churning it. I always though that was fun.