Rough Weather Makes Good Timber by Patsy Moore Ginns J. L. Osborne

Author:Patsy Moore Ginns, J. L. Osborne [Patsy Moore Ginns, J. L. Osborne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9781469610382
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Wood Choppings

And they had the wood choppings in the spring. All the men came and brought their axes. Some of them might have brought a crosscut saw. At that time, they didn’t know what a chain saw was. And, of course, the women did the cooking just like they did for the corn shucking. But the men would get out there and cut enough wood to last all year curing tobacco and fireplace wood and stovewood.

But we had good times. And each woman knew what she could cook best. Miss Ollie would cook a rice pudding, and I declare she could make the best ’uns I ever ate. She was real good on rice puddings. And, maybe, one could bake better bread, and somebody else could make better pies, something like apple pies, or those old big pan pies, you know. Fruit pies. Law! That was good eating!

But that chicken and dumplings and those pinto beans were my favorite! ’Course, they had mashed potatoes. Everything that grew on the farm.

You could just put that big old hunk of meat in those pinto beans and set them back on the stove and let ’em cook a long time. Ellis and Clyde would sit over here on the bench behind this table and eat pinto beans and laugh.

I’ll never forget it. Clyde always loved the big old hunk of meat that was boiled in the pintos, you know. And I remember one day he said he had eat more pinto beans than he wanted a many a time just to get that fat meat they were cooked with. But he said he hated to just reach back and get more meat when he didn’t get more beans. Sometimes it would be meat on the bone, and sometimes it would be just regular old middlin’ meat—pork. A ham bone gave it better flavor.

LUCY SPENCER, 1912

Stokes County

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