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  1. Beef rings were still in use when I was a kid in the early fifties. Rural electrification, in my area, happened about 1954. That was the end of the beef rings.

  2. A step up from feast or famine and a clever way to have variety in your meat diet.
    Helped my mother preserve a young bull once,mostly I helped eat it later, but she was out of freezer space when it stepped a step too far off of the creek canyon.
    So she butchered it and put it in preserve jars..
    Lot of work but jellied beef is delectable.

    Gang Green seems obsessed with making sure the poor brown people of the world can never get reliable electricity so they are denied the luxury of refrigeration which we take for granted.
    Actually they are also attempting to deny these same conveniences to us as well,except they seem too stupid to comprehend exactly what their demands amount to.

    Strikes me every form of food preservation,especially meat preservation requires large amounts of cheap energy.
    Sun drying being our first try,smoking it the next,salting,pickling…
    But the convenience of energy on demand has resulted in a whole lot less wastage.

  3. When Dad ran the beef ring it was also his job to load the animal picked for slaughter. Livestock loading facilities, if their were any were often primitive in those days. To make matters worse the animal chosen for slaughter was often the wildest most ornery troublemaker on the farm. The wage for the day was twenty bucks, good money back then, but by god some of those animals made the twenty seem hard earned.
    Dad always made a point of showing me the correct way to slaughter the animal. The sweet spot on the animal’s skull where the blunt end of the axe would drop the animal, the correct way to bleed the animal without cutting the wind pipe and so forth right down to the correct way to cut the animal in two, making sure that none of the animal’s waste or hair touched the meat.

    1. The “ring,” was highly organized. I never heard about that kind of cooperation, it was an excellent idea.

      Interesting details about how it was all done. In the city people shopped often for meat but the secrets about the ice houses were well known. Grew up with refrigeration but I remember the stories from my Mom. Of course as late as the 1960s there were still icemen who delivered ice back in the day.

      The best blood pudding came from some of the best Old World butchers. I bet their recipes were what the hard working people from Saskatchewan used and probably passed on to their descendants. I haven’t had any for over 50 years but I remember the taste quite well.

  4. Interesting story

    Keep on file. With electricity blackouts coming, or being priced through the roof there will be no more fridges or freezers.

    I guess you could bury the fridge in the back yard. Then it would truly be an icebox.

  5. Ah yes, the Western Producer. A useless Liberal propaganda rag. I could never figure out why we subscribed to something that always told us to shut up and bend over for Pierre.

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