Miss Belle,I don't recall the waffle iron you spoke of.My mom had a elec. One .I'm just curious how your waffle iron worked?Forgive me for being so nosey. Linda Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Belle Shepherd" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:55:32 To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] More stories.. Grandpa's house had a large room/screened in porch on the back of the house surrounding the welll. There were tables and a small kerosene stove. Doors of the back hall and kitchen opened onto the porch. A wide shelf extended around the far corner and was used to put the garden and fruit offerings before preparation fo a family meal or the canning, preserving and pickling that went on all summer. Jams, jellies, preserves, I remember fresh blackberry jam and butter on the 'heel' of a fresh baked loaf of bread. They made chow-chow, bread and butter pickles, spiced peaches, green tomato pickle and watermelon rind pickle. This is my favorite. They would can beans, corn, tomatoes, beets (some made into pickles). Usually in January, a cld month, there would be "hog killing" time. Then the room/porch would be busy with preparing the meat for the smokhouse, making sausage, etc. They would let me make the patties and put them in the large iron skillets to fry.When they were done they were put into glass jars and the grease poured in until they were covered. Then the jars would be capped and turned upside down so the grease would act as a sealer. Meanwhile the fat that had been cut away from the meat was in a big iron pot outside, cooking/rendering the fat into 'cracklins' and the pure lard we would be using to fry chicken , make biscuits and pie crusts in the coming months. There was a small pantry between the kitchen and dining room where the cooks kep flour, cornmeal, sugar, coffee beans. The shelves held all kinds of stuff. The bread tray inwhich the biscuits were made was always on the counter, rolling pin handy.The coffee grinder was just inside the pantry door.Coffee was made in a big enamelpot on the big wood stove before anything else was put on it to cook. We had one of those 'flip' waffle irons that fit the hole in the stove. I think my brother has it now, stuffed away. Belle ------------------------------- 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

Linda, Stella has given an excellent description and explanation of the 'flip' waffle iron. I didn't ever use it, just watched the cook 'flip' it over . Belle ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] More stories.. > Miss Belle,I don't recall the waffle iron you spoke of.My mom had a elec. One .I'm just curious how your waffle iron worked?Forgive me for being so nosey. > Linda > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Belle Shepherd" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:55:32 > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] More stories.. > > > Grandpa's house had a large room/screened in porch on the back of the house surrounding the welll. There were tables and a small kerosene stove. Doors of the back hall and kitchen opened onto the porch. A wide shelf extended around the far corner and was used to put the garden and fruit offerings before preparation fo a family meal or the canning, preserving and pickling that went on all summer. Jams, jellies, preserves, I remember fresh blackberry jam and butter on the 'heel' of a fresh baked loaf of bread. > > They made chow-chow, bread and butter pickles, spiced peaches, green tomato pickle and watermelon rind pickle. This is my favorite. They would can beans, corn, tomatoes, beets (some made into pickles). > > Usually in January, a cld month, there would be "hog killing" time. Then the room/porch would be busy with preparing the meat for the smokhouse, making sausage, etc. They would let me make the patties and put them in the large iron skillets to fry.When they were done they were put into glass jars and the grease poured in until they were covered. Then the jars would be capped and turned upside down so the grease would act as a sealer. > Meanwhile the fat that had been cut away from the meat was in a big iron pot outside, cooking/rendering the fat into 'cracklins' and the pure lard we would be using to fry chicken , make biscuits and pie crusts in the coming months. > There was a small pantry between the kitchen and dining room where the cooks kep flour, cornmeal, sugar, coffee beans. The shelves held all kinds of stuff. The bread tray inwhich the biscuits were made was always on the counter, rolling pin handy.The coffee grinder was just inside the pantry door.Coffee was made in a big enamelpot on the big wood stove before anything else was put on it to cook. > > We had one of those 'flip' waffle irons that fit the hole in the stove. I think my brother has it now, stuffed away. > > Belle > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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