Author : Charles Daniel Drake
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230102160
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)
Book Synopsis Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 1785-1800; a Series of Reminiscential Letters from Daniel Drake... to His Children by : Charles Daniel Drake
Download or read book Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 1785-1800; a Series of Reminiscential Letters from Daniel Drake... to His Children written by Charles Daniel Drake and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...but ' begin with cutting up the fat, a work to which boys are well adapted. The fat being "tried" out, the next labor was chopping sausage meat, which I began with a hatchet because too small to lift a heavier tool, and continued till I could use the axe with a vigorous arm. The stripping, twisting into links, hanging on poles, and moderate smokedrying succeeded. Lastly, the frying and the feast; for in those days of simple fare, the annual return of the sausage season was hailed by the whole family. To this hour I prefer good, and especially clean sausage, to any other meat. The same season and the same killing were followed by other labors of an interesting kind. A Jersey housekeeper could never neglect or forget the delicious mince pie, in the manufacture of which I have wielded the chopping axe full many a hour. For a long time, however, apples were too "dear" and scarce to justify a large application of them to that object. Our compositions, compared with those of modern times, were abundantly simple, but on that account more salubrious, and as our tastes were formed to no more savory mixture, they were eaten as delicious.' Other dainties still awaited us as the result of killing hogs. They were "dough-nuts" and "wonders," the latter being known to you under the name of crullers. I can find neither word in Webster, and from early association prefer the former. These sweet compounds of flour and milk and spices, .boiled in fresh lard till they assume a beautiful fawn color, are still my favorites, and can at any time maintain a rivalship even with sister Belle's soft gingerbread; on which, however, as it is past 12 o'clock and a starlight morning, I mean presently...
