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