Wilkie, love reading what you write. I remember all of it also and I am in my 70's. We also were poor but didn't know it. Hang in there. That's what I am trying to do. Love, Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "WWILKINSON" <WWILKINSON004@houston.rr.com> To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:44 AM Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Syrup Soppin' Suppers > GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU NORRIS. I'M STILL HANGING ON, BUT, BEING 83 AIN'T > ALL FUN. I SPEND A LOT OF MY TIME IN A WHEEL CHAIR AND I SIT AND > REMEMBER > THOSE SWEET DAYS IN BRADLEY COUNTY. FUNNY THING, WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE > WERE POOR CAUSE EVERYONE ELSE WAS POOR, ALSO. YOU TAKE CARE CAUSE IT'S > HELL TO GET OLD AND YOU ARE NOT FAR BEHIND ME. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW THE > BUCKET OF SURUP WOULD TURN TO CRYSTALS IN THE WINTER TIME AND YOU WOULD > HAVE > TO HEAT IT ON THE STOVE TO GET IT TO POUR ON THE BISQUITS? SINCERELY, > WILKIE > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norris J. Bailey" <bailey669@ca.rr.com> > To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:54 PM > Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Syrup Soppin' Suppers > > >> Hello Wilkie, I too remember my father sipping his coffee from a sauer,I >> to >> have sopped biscuit in gravy and Molasses, many of time as a child, for >> Breakfast. We owned our own cows, so we would make butter from their >> milk, >> and mixed in the Syrup,or molasses, and eat them while they were still >> hot. >> A couple of years my father farmed and gre his own cane,it was called >> sargrum, ribincane was rather scarce around where I lived, Mr Emmit >> Blankinship grew Ribincane on his farm, when we lived there, my older >> brother help him to plaint it, they would plaint stalks, in the ground, >> Sargum would be plainted by seed. I always thought thatsyrup were very >> tasty, sometime I eat it now, keep a jar in mt store room. >> It good to seethat you are still around, Wilkie, we have remenance over >> a >> lots of our old home place, good luck to you. >> Norris Bailey. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message