Dear Kitchen Saints,
I lost my best writing yesterday and so I am sending this to Annie to SEND to you. One of my points of yesterday's lost writing was that the teaching of the Titus Mother in Chapter 2 is chapter 2 verse one. BUT YOU MUST TEACH WHAT AGREES WITH SOUND DOCTRINE.
The teachings of Keeper at Home is the teachings of sound doctrine. And if the older women don't teach homemaking to the younger mothers it is a blasphemy against Christ. Well, we see this blasphemy in the Christian church of today. The divorce and child abuse that goes on in the church causes the unbelievers to hate God. We are to glorify God with strong Christian families. The world has no answer when it comes to keeping the family going. We are to teach them as believers by our lives.
This morning I was reading an old COUNTRY LIVING magazine from 1982. Those magazines were so anointed when they first came out. I would read them along with my Bible. Well, they aren't anointed now. But I was prayin' about the pictures as I looked at them. The old Country homes had jars of flour and sugar out on the counters and on the tables. Jars of spices like cinnamon sticks and vanilla beans, and nutmeg, whole cloves and peppercorns, and many more jars of dried herbs. A pot of homemade soup always on the stove and homemade bread on the table. Always dried herbs and flowers hanging from the ceiling with baskets galore. Baskets of potatoes and apples on the floor under the work table. Usually there was a cat sitting somewhere on a cute pillow in a basket by the kitchen window.
Compare that with today's style of kitchens we see in modern magazines. The kitchen counters are cleared. The whole house is so clean it looks like no one lives there 'cause no one does. Sure, a house is gonna stay clean if you don't do anything but sit around the house all day.
In the old days, 'long towards evening at my house, Dixie and Emily would stop to visit after their chores at home. Well, I had 6 children and my work was never done. Boy, when they would stop here, I would be so embarrassed that my house was in shambles. Not because I was lazy but because I was busy. Every day I made some kind of homemade bread. Either a yeast bread or biscuits or cornbread. I had to cook from scratch. We homeschooled and I worked from morning til night. That was how it was. But still, you want to have things spotless, huh? But Dixie would say, "Well, of course your house is a mess -- you have 6 kids. You can't just make them sit on the couch in a row and not do anything."
Well, my kids were wildly creative and my house was theirs to prove it. We did crafts and played the piano. The 3 youngest children had harmonicas of their own and played them all the time. But in this age of barrenness and wickedness, a messy kitchen is not popular. But it is common sense. Think of a man's workshop out in his garage. He has projects out and it's messy or he ain't doin' anything out there. His pants have paint on them and a bit on his face. Jim was always ruining his jeans with paint. But we Country Mothers of the Kitchen must be set free to cook and bake and simmer big pots of soup until our little hearts burst with JOY.
DAUGHTERS OF A NEW REVOLUTION. SISTERS OF LIBERTY. Let's throw off our shoes and wear aprons over long skirts and declare unashamedly that we are proud to be Mothers of the hearth. Fire tenders who are at home busy and proud of it.
Homemade soup isn't hard to make. Just get out a pan and go for it. I have even made soup in a big turkey roaster. But what I love most to make my soup in is my big cast iron dutch oven with a bail handle. That's just a cast iron pot with a thick wire handle.
Well, Baby Olivia Rose needs me so I won't write out any soup brews this morning, I guess. But if any of you have any homemade soup recipes, please send them in.
Love,
Connie
