They had many ways, including sugar from sweet fruits, honey, sorghum, molasses made from corn, etc. David Samuelsen On 9/24/2011 8:41 PM, JCTripp wrote: > Hi Marilyn, > I'll refer you to this website The Food Timeline. Lynne Olver is a food > historian. > http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcandy.html > Very interesting. > Regards, Jane > _________________________________ > Thanks for the answer. I found a book called "A Social History of the US" > and it talked about food. What we think of as the "Wild West" lived on > fresh meat, canned tomatoes and canned peaches. > The healthiest group in the early 1800's was the Pennsylvania Dutch from > the vitamins and minerals from their "sweet and sour" pickles. > Corn flakes and Graham crackers were developed as health foods and > originally purchased only at special clinics where they were used as health > food. > Rhubarb was known as "pie plant" and pies were made so "stiff" so they > could be held in the hand to eat. Now my question is, where did people get > the sugar to sweeten sour fruits for pies? > > Marilyn Kline Washington > > ______________________________ > > -----Original Message----- > From: JCTripp<[email protected]> > To: Cambria Co. PACAMBRIA<[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 12:17 pm > Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Pickled Vramatices > > > Thanks Harriet. > I assume Sam Lehman's handwriting did look like vramatices or you would > have > mentioned an alternate transcription. Other than some questions about the > meaning of *vramatices*, the only search result (Google, Ask, Bing) I found > was > the transcription of Sam's letter on Harvey Lehman's family history > website. I > thought perhaps Sam's handwriting was very hard to read and was transcribed > in > error as *vramatices*. Thanks for clearing this up. > Regards, Jane > __________________________________ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Harriet Zierer > To: JCTripp > Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 11:43 PM > Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Pickled Vramatices > > > Harvey Lehman's aunt, Edna Lehman, was my mother's first > cousin. > She sent copies of those letters to me and, in notes about the letters she > said > the word means tomatoes in Pennsylvania Dutch. > > > Harriet Zierer [email protected] > > - - - - - - - - - - > > Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: > http://www.camgenpa.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >