I'm telling my age--but I was raised in a log cabin with no running water in the mountains of NC. My grandmother and aunt made their own lye soap. Their procedure for washing clothes was almost to a T as specified in this cookbook. They had an old iron pot that held about 30 gal of water. They would boil, scrub and turn until the clothes were supposedly clean. This was an all day affair. Their hands would be raw. That was not a good ole day to remember. There is a book called "Cabins In the Laurel" that portrays what life was like around the 20s and 30s. My grandfather was driving an old "A" Model thru the Blueridge mountains of NC. The thing overheated. Steam and smoke were blowing everywehre. An old man and woman up on the ridge had never seen a car. The old lady ran and jumped under the bed. The old man fired his long hog rife down the valley. The bullet went thru the windshield and grandfather jumped out and ran. The old lady yelled from under the bed "Did Ya get him Pa?" Old man replied "No--but I sure made it turn that man loose!" Happy Easter Charlie Riddle/Dulles Airport Does anyone know what a "Wock" is? At Easter time, that something you throw at a "Wabbit", --- The Cook's <[email protected]> wrote: > Agriculture & Livestock Journal > March 2001 > Nevada Farm Bureau > Woman's Committee tidbits... > by Kaye Medlin > > Grandma's Recipe For Washing > This is an authentic washday receipt in its > orginal spelling, as it was > written out for a bride three generations ago. Hang > it up in your laundry > room and you'll count your blessings as you do your > wash. > > 1. Bild a fire in back yard to heet kettle of > rainwater. > 2. Set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is > pert. > 3. Shave on hole cake soup in bilin water. > 4. sort things, make 3 piles. > 1 pile white, 1 pile cullord, 1 pile work > briches and rags. > 5. stur flour in cold water to smooth, then thin > down with bilin water. > 6. rub dirty spots on board scrub hard. then bile. > run cullard but don't bile-just rench and > starch. > 7. take white things out of kettle with broom stick > handle, then rench. > Blew and starch. > 8. spred tee towells on grass. > 9. hang old rags on fence. > 10. pore rench water on flower bed. > 11. scrub porch with the hot soapy water. > 12. turn tub upside down. > 13 go put on clean dress, smooth hair with side > combs. Brew a cup of tea. > Set and rest a spell. Rock a spell and count > blessins. > This is from an old cook book. > ************** > > > > ~No Matter where you go... > There you are~ > -Austin Powers- > > > ==== RIDDLE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, please send the command > "unsubscribe" in an email to: > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode) > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > ===== The "Voice of Thunder and the Sounds of Deliverance" www.worldforchristradio.com To Send WFCR a Message: Dial 1 800-699-2466 and then enter 703 561-8302 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/