Chew on this.

” To “put by” is an early nineteenth-century way of saying to save something you don’t have to use now, against the time when you’ll need it…Putting food by is prudence, and it’s involvement.  It’s also a meaningful return to old simplicities and skills.  Above all, it is deeply satisfying.  We know what is added to food we put by for our families.  And we have a direct return for effort–which has be become a luxury in these times of remote and deviously routed forces.”

Janet Greene, in Putting Food By, January 1973.

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