I was born, raised, and still live in Bertie County. Bertie did and still does grow tobacco, peanuts, soybeans, and cotton as well as corn. Cotton was not grown for many years because of the bow weevil (a bug) but has made a big come back in the last few years. Martha -----Original Message----- >From: Beth Wienberry Dix <bethdix@comcast.net> >Sent: Aug 20, 2009 8:25 PM >To: ncbertie@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] Just one more cooking comment > >My family may have raised tobacco, but I only heard them talk about peanuts. >My family moved from Bertie in the late 1920's, to Guilford Co. where I was >born. > >I can't wait to get the cookbook! > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <puzlelady8109@aol.com> >To: <ncbertie@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:12 PM >Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] Just one more cooking comment > > >> Everyone I knew in Bertie raised tobacco along with peanuts, corn and "J >> pan peas". That is Bertiease for soybeans! >> >> >> In a message dated 8/20/2009 8:07:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> bethdix@comcast.net writes: >> >> Thank you for letting us know about this book. It sounds great. I just >> ordered on Amazon. I didn't know Bertie Co. was ever tobacco country. >> My >> family grew peanuts. >> >> I remember my daddy putting tobacco on bee stings! >> >> Beth >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <puzlelady8109@aol.com> >> To: <ncbertie@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:57 PM >> Subject: [NCBERTIE] Just one more cooking comment >> >> >>> There is a cook book called Carolina Tobacco Country Cookbook that is >>> not >>> only a cook book but the history of tobacco country and that is what >>> Bertie >>> was at one time...Tobacco country! I KNOW, I was there. This book >>> talks >>> about a time between the Great Civil War and WWII but let me tell you , >>> it >>> describes Bertie the way it was until the late 1950's. I got mine at the >>> museum in Bath, most museums in NC sell it for about $8 to $10. >>> Amazon.com has >>> it for sale from $11.88 to as high as $73. It even has medical >>> advice....use juice from tobacco(chewing tobacco or snuff) for bee >>> stings. Blow smoke >>> in the ear for an earache. >>> Reading it will take you to Bertie in the first half of the 20th >>> century. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NCBERTIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.62/2315 - Release Date: >> 08/20/09 >> 06:05:00 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NCBERTIE-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 >> NCBERTIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.62/2315 - Release Date: 08/20/09 >06:05:00 > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCBERTIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message a