“Heat and Eat and Easily Repeat” T. S. & T. Genuine Oven Serve Ware
By Suzanne Skwarski, Plank Road Questers #236
Long before the microwave oven, housewives spent hours preparing a hot meal in heavy iron baking vessels. Most of these one pot meals were stews or meat and potato roasted dishes that weighed mightily and cooked unevenly.
In 1849 when gold was discovered, men went west in unprecedented numbers. The result for women was a lack of men in the east and for many, a new sense of adventure. A few went west to find gold and adventure but most of the women who venture there were in search of a husband. Some who traveled west were members of the oldest profession, prostitution, but many others ended up in the trade as there was no other way to make a living in the wilds of the mining camps.
