Remember the dandilion greens?

Click here if you missed my story about my Gramma and the dandelion greens -- but I was saying in the old days before refrigerated train cars and electricity and supermarkets, people got really really hungry for greens. Well, actually, sometimes people just plain got really really hungry! Here is more evidence of how hungry people got for vegetables at the end of a very long winter:

Pioneer Onion Gravy

Chop up the tops of winter onions for one cup.

In a skillet, melt 2 Tablespons butter.

Stir in 1 Tablespoon flour.

Add 1 cup milk,

1/2 teaspoon salt and

1/4 teaspoon pepper.

Cook until boiling and thickened, stirring constantly. Add 1 cup chopped green onion tops, cook for a couple of minutes more. Serve over toast for breakfast or with mashed potatoes at dinner.

Have you ever craved vegetables so much you would eat this? Himself and I might try it for breakfast sometime.