I REMEMBER.....

....Crunching in ice on side of red dirt road as we walked to school.
....Hog killing on COLD days
....Drawing water from the well by hand.
....Outdoor Privies
....Calamel and castor oil in spring and before school started in fall. Whether you needed it or not, 
    you got it! Awful! 
....Washing clothes by hand in tin and wooden tubs, boiling white pieces in iron wash pot.
....Octagon and potash soap.
....Churning butter.
....Sweeping floors with homemade straw brooms made from broom sage.
....Mopping floors with corn shuck mops.
....Sprinkling sulphur in shoes in winter to prevent flu.
....Gallberry brooms to sweep yards.
....Chickens in the yard.
....Mouths washed out with soap when one said a dirty word.
Contributed by
Marquerite Ethridge
Americus, GA
REMEDIES

A mixture of soot from the chimney and lard will stop bleeding.
To stop a wound from bleeding place a spider web across the wound.
Cornmeal and vinegar poultice for sprains.
Polkberry tea for rheumatism.
White Ash tea for worms.
Golden Rod tea for fever.
Beech tree drops for cancer.
Sweet fern juice promotes vomiting.
Rattlesnake root tea for colds.
Indian turnip tea for cough.
Lady slipper tea makes a good tonic.

For Colds: 1 tsp. sugar or honey, 3 Tbsp. of whiskey, 1 tsp. of lemon juice,
1/4 tsp. of ginger and 1/2 c. hot water. Mix together, drink as hot as you 
can stand it. Put on flannel gown, crawl into bed and pull up the covers.
 

Historical Recollections
Recipe Neighbors

My mother's mother had recipe neighbors
Of this I am very glad
Bound in a book is the record now of the 
Friends my grandmother had.

There was Mrs. Babson, of sugar pie fame,
And Em, whose biscuits were light;
And R.L.W., whose eggless cake
We are having for supper tonight.

My neighbors serve mints and bakery stuff,
And we chatter a bit at tea,
But no one ever says when she comes to leave,
"Do give me the recipe..."

A century hence one will never know
Or care for my friends and their fate - 
But someone will treasure lovingly
What the recipe neighbors ate!

Author Unknown
 

A Favorite Recipe of the 1880's - Baked Trout

My granddaddy, I.A. Hart, was better known as Babe. One of his favorite days began at dawn, as he sat beneath a big tupelo tree at this favorite trout run in Little River in walking distance from his home near Berlin, Ga. My grandmother, Sally Ann Tillman Hart, could always depend on the "baked trout", her choice also for the evening meal. Granddaddy Babe always shared his big catch with neighbors. At one time it took more than one big trout for his family of lively youngsters: Julia, John, Harrison, Dink, Jim, Bob, Jerry, Lessia, Barney, and Eula.
After dressing his catch, it was then well seasoned inside and out with salt and pepper. Then a mixture of homemade butter and lemon juice or small amount of vinegar and honey. He placed it in a medium oven in an open top roaster or on open hot coals and baked it about 15 minutes per pound until golden brown.

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