The Working Man's Dessert

I'm immediately adding a daily event to my calendar called "Cheesing time". If my employer asks about it I'll send them this video.

Beer, the working man's desert 😂

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are essential for energy and health. Dessert is essential for morale.

"a little bit of bread and cheese and some beer makes a good meal" As a German, I can confirm that this still is true today 👍

Pasties allow you to eat them with your hands dirty. You'd hold the crimped, sealed edge and eat the pocket. When you were done, you'd discard the edge you were holding since it was dirty from being held. I don't remember where I learned this, but I believe it was mainly in reference to coal miners so they wouldn't be getting their food full of coal dust.

Having more than three meals a day is a common practice. In NOLA the second meal of the day is longshoreman''s breakfast, a hearty meal in comparison to the coffee and bread at the first of the day. Many farming communities have the large breakfast after morning chores are done. So, as The Shire is an agricultural community, a hobbits "second breakfast" is not a silliness.

My mother would core an apple and stuff it with butter and brown sugar and bake it in the oven.

The apple fritters are a popular dish in our region (Interlaken, Switzerland) and are called "Öpfelchüechli". The recipe from 1940 (Bernerkochbuch) reads as follows: 100g Flour 1 pinch of Salt 1 Teaspoon of Sugar 1/3 cup Water 3 Egg Yolks 1 Spoon of Vinegar 1 Spoon of Olive Oil 3 Beaten Egg Whites Apples or Pears Sugar and Cinnamon to sprinkle. Preparation is the same as in the video. As it was war time in Europe, when the book was published, there is an alternative recipe right there: 150g Flour 1 dl Water 1 dl Milk a little Salt 2 Egg Yolks 2 Beaten Egg Whites Apples or Pears As you see, the recipe John showed us is essentially the recipe people fell back to, when food was rationed. Today "Öpfelchüechli" are served with a sweet vanilla sauce.

It's still a customary to provide food/meal to the people you hire to harvest your field, repair something, or renovate your house.

Our purple corn is planted and it was a good spring for Maple Syrup in WV. So we will be making this pudding in September. Thank you for all of the great content!

Pudding can still mean dessert. For example "if you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding" from Pink Floyd.

I love how they called dessert "pudding" even if they would have another dish. In portuguese, breakfast is literally called "morning's coffee" no matter what you are having. It shows the level of importance it has in our culture.

A Kentucky Twist on your Apple Turnovers are a Fried version of the same dessert. Here in Kentucky, the Amish still make them as a sweet treat. They are an affordable mid afternoon treat to eat on an afternoon between lunch and supper.

I'm expecting more pears on my tree this year. Will try the little pasty with them.

"Ice cream! That'll will make a good lunch," My baby brother agrees with this lol.

My grandpa had to have something sweet to end his meal, just a bite. He often had honey or blacksterp on a biscuit

My grandfather and his father grew up as share-croppers. And sweets were always a treat. They would tell me how on Sunday for dessert they would have biscuits and molasses after supper.

I don't remember the title or the author, but I once read a short story where a poor boy died with the unfinished business of wanting to try candy. He loved apples but was too poor to buy candy. Then somebody gave the poor ghost some candy and it was way too disgustingly sweet for his palate, and he could finally rest in peace. 😅 I don't know why, but that story stuck with me and I think of it often.

A little honey never hurt apple dishes.

My mom-in-law taught our kids to make little apple pies. It was the first thing they learned to make. Happy Mother's Day to her and all you amazing Nutmeg Moms!:_townsendsNutmeg: