These lovely childhood stories... All the cooking from scratch usually came from moms who weren't working full time. I remember bread dough rising on our radiators. I remember the worst homemade vegetable soup ever (nothing was cut into pieces that would fit on a spoon--whole string beans, bleh!) I remember the best potato salad in the world, but it was a project started the day before.
You could still keep it nutritious (fruit rollups, yuck), but time became of essence eventually. The advent of the slow cooker and safer pressure cookers helped.
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