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]