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  Kommentar till text 10169 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Lard
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 DD> Subsequent pies were sometimes made with bacon dripping mixed with the
 DD> lard. We did bacon loooooong before it became the "in" thing it is
 DD> today.

 RH> My mom used lard for her pies, bacon drippings were tossed. I've used a
 RH> variety of fats, not bacon drippings yet but probably will at some
 RH> point.

We never tossed bacon dripping - it was too good a flavourant for many things -
like frying potatoes, or adding flavour to a pot of green beans - or white
beans, for that matter. We also rendered chicken fat and used the schmaltz (and
goose grease) for lots of things. Schmaltz was especially good for frying eggs.

 RH>  DD> the living room. Water was pumped from a well or cistern (for
 RH>  DD> soft water). Air conditioning was fans from the local funeral
 RH>  DD> home. Milking was done by hand. And both the churn and the
 RH>  DD> cream separator were run by hand.

 RH> That would have been quite the job, especially as they got older.

 DD> Heck, I was a pre-teen and they were my mother's aunties - so they
 DD> were "old" as old gets.  Bv)=

 RH> You're probably as old (or older) now than they were--funny, how the
 RH> perspective changes as we age. (G)

No one expected me to live past 30 - given some of the bone-headed stunts I
pulled and chance I took. I thought I was bullet-proof or something. Then, one
day I was in the midst of a particularly nutsy thing and I had this epiphany
"What would happen if .... " and in that moment, I think, I grew up.

 RH>  DD> The only nod to modernity other than having electric lights and
 RH>  DD> refrigeration (for the milk and some food) was a "bottle-gas"
 RH>  DD> cook stove. Even the telephone was a wall-mounted, hand cranked
 RH>  DD> unit.

 RH> Were they on a party line too?

 DD> It was a hand-cranked wall instrument - their "ring" was two longs and
 DD> two shorts. When the phone company replaced the cranked wall phones
 DD> with more modern "Number Please" (no dial) telephones all the brothers,
 DD> sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins kept their old, original
 DD> instruments and set up their own family phone system - which ran on
 DD> the top strand of barbed wire of the fences - with jumpers added as
 DD> needed. Both the family system and the telephone company system were
 DD> party lines.

 RH> Definately rural phone system!

 DD> If you saw the movie "In The Heat Of The Night" you saw my uncles Rob
 DD> and Tom and Uncle Rob's son Robert at the implement dealer in Sparta
 DD> (IL, not MS) they had several days work as extras on that film.

 RH> I'll have to check it out, never have seen the movie tho I've heard
 RH> about it.

It was a most excellent movie - and stellar performances by both Rod Steiger
and Sidney Poitier. They used Sparta IL rather than Sparta MS for location
shots because ol' Jim Crow hadn't been run out of the deep south in 1966 when
the film was being made.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Candied Spiced Mixed Nuts
 Categories: Nuts, Snacks, Chilies
      Yield: 2 servings

    1/4 c  White sugar
      1 ts Ground cinnamon
    1/4 ts Ground nutmeg
      1 tb Chilli spice mix
      4 ts Water
      2 c  Mixed nuts; salted

  In a microwave-safe bowl, or oven-safe ceramic bakeware,
  combine sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and chilli spice. Stir in
  water with a wooden spoon. Microwave uncovered on high for
  one minute; stir. Add nuts, mixing until well coated.
  Microwave an additional 3 to 4 minutes, stirring mixture
  after each minute. Spread nuts evenly onto a greased,
  foil-lined baking sheet to cool completely. Store in an
  airtight container.

  Better Homes & Gardens | December 2012

  MM Format by Dave Drum - 23 December 2012

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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... This is the 6th book I've written-not too bad for a guy who's only read two

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