Norma, Even with Eileen's medical problems we canned 87 quarts of tomatoes and 44 quarts of tomato juice, not to mention a freezer full of spinach, beans, cauliflower, broccoli, and many cases of potatoes, squash, apples and onions. Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the work. I never tried freezing tomatoes. Would like to know how. Had another bad storm yesterday with 6 inches of snow and 4 inches of rain, but the sun has just come out, the fog has cleared and it is beautiful with just the right amount of snow left on the ground! Jim on Prince Edward Island > Pat, > It was nice to look at them lined up on a cellar wall ledge. Believe me it > was fun in my 20' and 30' after that it was a chore. The freezer works > great, I even put tomatoes in it when I gave up the canning. > Norma

Tis a lovely site to see. I must have enjoyed the storms have so many pictures of them. Are you all too young to remember about 1936? an ice storm in Jersey over the 5 ft. drifts? It was so hard we could sleigh ride over the ice. It even held us to walk on it. Driving a bus on snow was a snap, but ice was terrifying as my runs were all hills. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Up2Nutrix@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:30 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: movie > In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, > NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > It's 30 here with freezing rain. > > All the trees are frozen and while it is a pretty sight the weight is > > really > > pulling some of them down. > > > > Your Northeaster is making the Colorado papers . . . the third page of this > morning's Colorado Springs Gazette has a picture of Deerfield, MA (an area > that my husband knows quite well and I know fairly well) under ice. I have a > lot of memories of ice storms in the Northeast (which we practically never > get here), with forests looking like Fairyland in the sunlight and tree > branches and wires coming down from the weight. Out here (probably because of > the elevation -- about 7,000 feet) we get snow when the temperature is in the > 30s and even in the 40s, so ice-storm conditions practically never exist. We > do get heavy fogs that freeze onto the trees in delicate shapes, showing > frost needles and things like that. A few weeks ago we had those conditions > twice, and I went through a couple of rolls of film capturing the results. > > Doris (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- > Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Pat, Laugh out loud. I don't know where that came from. You're not confused you just don't remember. lol. Frank and I spend days sometimes trying to remember the name of things, or people. We see them, but can't put a name on them. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork Goodies > Norma, > > Pork Goodies is the name she used. Am I confused or what? LOL Probably or > what! > > Pat > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > We had a humongous > cherry tree and a dark fruit cellar to keep things in. We had a plum tree in our front yard in California; it put out enormous quantities of cherry-sized plums every year. Until I went to nursing school and got really busy, I used to turn those things in to jam each year. Back then I made all my own jams; it was a lot of fun. Once retirement age hits, I'd like to go back to doing stuff like that. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Ginny, My younger brother was the type to get poison of one type or another if the wind blew his way. One time he got into sumac and he was swollen from head to toe, even his eyes swelled shut. Worst case of poison that I have ever seen. I used to have to go out and pick a weed(?) that grew in the grass. We called it buckcorn or buckorn. Took vast amounts. If I had a nickel for everyone of those leaves I gathered I would be rich. My mother would squeeze or heat and get the juice out and apply to his poison. That was the only thing that helped him back then. Later he went and got shots when affected. Pat

In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > When my first child was born the dr told me to give > her paragoric whenever she kept waking up and fussing. Thank God, my mom > was > here and told me not to follow those directions. She said you will have > that > child addicted. > Our pediatrician had me give the kids phenobarbital when teething problems got really bad. She said that the small amount wouldn't cause addiction problems, and sure enough, it didn't, any more than taking Vicodin for an injury or postoperative pain turns you into an addict. Once the pain went away, so did the phenobarbital. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Norma, Pork Goodies is the name she used. Am I confused or what? LOL Probably or what! Pat

In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Your right, I forgot about using it on the kid's gum's > Gee -- we used Anbesol on our kids' gums. It did seem to work pretty well. And as for those "times of the month" -- (sorry, Diesel and Jack, to bore you on this subject) our school nurse in junior high had a bottle of green tablets called "Edrisal," or something like that, for menstrual cramps and other "time-of-the-month" discomforts. She'd hand them out when girls came in either using the euphemisms of the day or complaining of cramps or headache or nausea or stuff like that, provided it was related to that little female complaint. Often there would be boys in the nurse's office when one of the girls came in with those problems, and I can still remember when a boy came in with some minor abdominal discomfort. When the nurse offered him some essence of peppermint, or something on that line, he said, "Give me one of those little green pills. They cure anything!" To my extreme embarrassment (I was a helper in the nurse's office at the time), the nurse, Mrs. Garris (remember her, Kittie?), explained to the boy just what those pills were for. When the boy had gone and I protested about her going into detail about the pills, she simply said, "If they don't know about that now, they never will." Doris (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Don't remember elderberries, but I remember picking bayberries and dipping candles on our fingers. I still love the smell of them, and finally found some that 'smell' like home. I bring them out special each Christmas. Thanks for the info. I will look them up on the net and get some information for my husband. I would love to see some snow, but I am happy with the 60 degree weather here right now. It feels great! -----Original Message----- From: franor [mailto:franor@atmc.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:31 AM To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fw: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts Ginny, Don't have their book but I think "Harry and David" on the west coast has them. In Jersey on the road to Cokebury there was 2 trees we used to pick from, one sour and one black. Our house in High Bridge had a Queen Anne's cherry, all were so great. Hey do you remember Elderberries? My husband and Father loved my pies. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: Ginny Carey <Ginny.Carey@clerk.co.brevard.fl.us> To: 'franor' <franor@atmc.net> Cc: 'NJ-mamories-Lrootswebcom' <NJ-mamories-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: RE: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > I used to can many years ago, but now it is a lost art, and I don't remember > much about it. > Looking at the conversation, I must ask - does anyone know where I can get > fresh sour cherries, like my husband used to pick off the trees in Michigan > as a boy? I have exhausted my resources - either they cannot be found, it is > out of season, or they cannot ship. > Help?? > Thanks G > > > -----Original Message----- > From: franor [mailto:franor@atmc.net] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:49 AM > To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Fw: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > > > Pat, > It was nice to look at them lined up on a cellar wall ledge. Believe me it > was fun in my 20' and 30' after that it was a chore. The freezer works > great, I even put tomatoes in it when I gave up the canning. > Norma > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:38 AM > Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > > > > Norma, > > > > Wish you lived close enough to show me how to put up stuff. Remember my > > mother and grandmothers doing that when I was very young. We had a > humongous > > cherry tree and a dark fruit cellar to keep things in. Guess I will have > to > > rely on my freezer. > > > > Pat > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Ginny, Don't have their book but I think "Harry and David" on the west coast has them. In Jersey on the road to Cokebury there was 2 trees we used to pick from, one sour and one black. Our house in High Bridge had a Queen Anne's cherry, all were so great. Hey do you remember Elderberries? My husband and Father loved my pies. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: Ginny Carey <Ginny.Carey@clerk.co.brevard.fl.us> To: 'franor' <franor@atmc.net> Cc: 'NJ-mamories-Lrootswebcom' <NJ-mamories-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: RE: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > I used to can many years ago, but now it is a lost art, and I don't remember > much about it. > Looking at the conversation, I must ask - does anyone know where I can get > fresh sour cherries, like my husband used to pick off the trees in Michigan > as a boy? I have exhausted my resources - either they cannot be found, it is > out of season, or they cannot ship. > Help?? > Thanks G > > > -----Original Message----- > From: franor [mailto:franor@atmc.net] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:49 AM > To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Fw: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > > > Pat, > It was nice to look at them lined up on a cellar wall ledge. Believe me it > was fun in my 20' and 30' after that it was a chore. The freezer works > great, I even put tomatoes in it when I gave up the canning. > Norma > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:38 AM > Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > > > > Norma, > > > > Wish you lived close enough to show me how to put up stuff. Remember my > > mother and grandmothers doing that when I was very young. We had a > humongous > > cherry tree and a dark fruit cellar to keep things in. Guess I will have > to > > rely on my freezer. > > > > Pat > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > It's 30 here with freezing rain. > All the trees are frozen and while it is a pretty sight the weight is > really > pulling some of them down. > Your Northeaster is making the Colorado papers . . . the third page of this morning's Colorado Springs Gazette has a picture of Deerfield, MA (an area that my husband knows quite well and I know fairly well) under ice. I have a lot of memories of ice storms in the Northeast (which we practically never get here), with forests looking like Fairyland in the sunlight and tree branches and wires coming down from the weight. Out here (probably because of the elevation -- about 7,000 feet) we get snow when the temperature is in the 30s and even in the 40s, so ice-storm conditions practically never exist. We do get heavy fogs that freeze onto the trees in delicate shapes, showing frost needles and things like that. A few weeks ago we had those conditions twice, and I went through a couple of rolls of film capturing the results. Doris (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Jim, Can you believe I just dipped them in hot water and slipped the skins and put them in either freezer bags or containers and they were just as good as canning. Used them for soup or spaghetti mostly. Sliced didn't work unless I dusted with flour and fried. Applesauce works great in freezer. As for the work its a matter of a feeling of acomplishment. So glad Eileen can still do the canning. My thoughts are with her. Norma PS The snow is lovely but you can have it. At 75 it doesn't agree with me. ----- Original Message ----- From: James Thorne <james.thorne@pei.sympatico.ca> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > Norma, > > Even with Eileen's medical problems we canned 87 quarts of tomatoes and 44 > quarts of tomato juice, not to mention a freezer full of spinach, beans, > cauliflower, broccoli, and many cases of potatoes, squash, apples and > onions. Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the work. I never tried freezing > tomatoes. Would like to know how. > > Had another bad storm yesterday with 6 inches of snow and 4 inches of rain, > but the sun has just come out, the fog has cleared and it is beautiful with > just the right amount of snow left on the ground! > > Jim on Prince Edward Island > > > > Pat, > > It was nice to look at them lined up on a cellar wall ledge. Believe me > it > > was fun in my 20' and 30' after that it was a chore. The freezer works > > great, I even put tomatoes in it when I gave up the canning. > > Norma > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Sumac - what horrible memories. I was 8 and we went to the beach in Sea Isle City. We had to walk through a bunch of 'stuff' from the parking lot to the sand. I was covered from head to toe with calamine lotion for days after - you talk about itching! -----Original Message----- From: PalmaG72@aol.com [mailto:PalmaG72@aol.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:03 PM To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: NJ-MEMORIES-D Digest V02 #320 Diesel - I never had poison ivy or sumac either -----I guess we are the lucky ones - Marie G ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

In a message dated 11/16/02 11:53:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, Up2Nutrix@aol.com writes: > "Sweating it out" Doris, Great stuff, thanks for shearing. Diesel

Pat, It was nice to look at them lined up on a cellar wall ledge. Believe me it was fun in my 20' and 30' after that it was a chore. The freezer works great, I even put tomatoes in it when I gave up the canning. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:38 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Putting up qts > Norma, > > Wish you lived close enough to show me how to put up stuff. Remember my > mother and grandmothers doing that when I was very young. We had a humongous > cherry tree and a dark fruit cellar to keep things in. Guess I will have to > rely on my freezer. > > Pat >

Hi Pat, Do you think Mom meant Pork Goodies. We bought them many years to slice for frying and sometimes to cook with cabbage and potatoes. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:22 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork Roll > Hi, > > Please, don't anyone try the porkroll with saurkraut and caraway seeds. Put > mine in the pan and called my mother to see if I needed to add anything else > and she said that wasn't pork roll she cooked that way. It was porkettes or > something like that like little roasts. She didn't think you could buy them > anymore, but I think A&P sells them. They call them little roasts or > something. Sorry about that, but after 40 years my memory is sometimes dim. > > Pat > > ______________________________

Norma, Wish you lived close enough to show me how to put up stuff. Remember my mother and grandmothers doing that when I was very young. We had a humongous cherry tree and a dark fruit cellar to keep things in. Guess I will have to rely on my freezer. Pat

Diesel, I remember paragoric. When my first child was born the dr told me to give her paragoric whenever she kept waking up and fussing. Thank God, my mom was here and told me not to follow those directions. She said you will have that child addicted. Pat

Hi, Please, don't anyone try the porkroll with saurkraut and caraway seeds. Put mine in the pan and called my mother to see if I needed to add anything else and she said that wasn't pork roll she cooked that way. It was porkettes or something like that like little roasts. She didn't think you could buy them anymore, but I think A&P sells them. They call them little roasts or something. Sorry about that, but after 40 years my memory is sometimes dim. Pat

Diesel, Sorry, also, but I can't resist. Udderly Smooth is for the udders. LOL Seriously, I used bag balm and my family said that stuff stinks. Used it on my hands, when I was working and had to wash them constantly. Also, tried corn huskers lotion. It was rather thick. Pat