I don't remember how my grandmother done her buttermilk, but they had a Separater to separate the cream from her milk. The buttermilk today, one kind is got to much water in it, I can find some like the old kind. I like cornbread and buttermilk, but I don't like the 25 kind. Frances From: heather e blair <h431@uchicago.edu> Date: 2007/05/30 Wed AM 08:54:05 CDT To: tncannon@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Stories I'd be curious about your sauerkraut recipe. Did anybody on the list make their own buttermilk? - Heather http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ On Wed, 30 May 2007, Frances Simmons wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have enjoyed you'll stories about "Homemade Biscuits and butter". My grandmother and Mother used to make their own biscuits, and churn their own butter.When i was growing up, it was homemade biscuits for breakfast, homemade cornbread for dinner and supper. Does anyone ever make homemake Kraut anymore? My grand mothe made it every spring, when they lived on the farm. You'll are bringing back some "GOOD OLD MEMORIES". > > Frances TX > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com 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 TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Well, I have churned many a churn of milk in my younger days. You let the milk clabber by letting it sit out of the cooler overnight, and the cream rises to the top. Put it into an old crock churn and then with a wooden dasher and handle we would sit and churn the clabbered milk for about an hour or so until the butter rose to the top. We would then take the butter off the top of the milk and what was left in the crock churn was called buttermilk. We would then take the butter and work it with an old cedar wooden butter paddle until all the milk was worked out of it (sorta like kneading dough, except with the cedar paddle) . The longer you worked with it, the more yellow the butter got, because unless you work all the milk out of the butter, it will be lighter or whiter. Therefore working the milk out of the butter is what makes the color brighter. Anybody out there ever chew gum from a Sweetgum tree?? I have, and oh my, that stuff really sticks to your teeth until you get it chewed down for a while. I've made sourkraut too. Now days I don't go thru the process of using the old crock churn, I just chop my fresh cabbage up, pack it in a quart fruit jar, put about a tablespoonful of salt on the top and pour boiling water over it , and then put the top on the jar and sit it in the pantry to sour. Don't seal the jar lid, because it might explode as it ferments. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Simmons" <fs.rooster@verizon.net> To: <tncannon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Stories > I don't remember how my grandmother done her buttermilk, but they had a > Separater to separate the cream from her milk. The buttermilk today, one > kind is got to much water in it, I can find some like the old kind. I like > cornbread and buttermilk, but I don't like the 25 kind. > Frances > > > > > From: heather e blair <h431@uchicago.edu> > Date: 2007/05/30 Wed AM 08:54:05 CDT > To: tncannon@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Stories > > I'd be curious about your sauerkraut recipe. Did anybody on the list make > their own buttermilk? > > - Heather > > http://hblair.uchicago.edu/ > > > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Frances Simmons wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I have enjoyed you'll stories about "Homemade Biscuits and butter". My >> grandmother and Mother used to make their own biscuits, and churn their >> own butter.When i was growing up, it was homemade biscuits for >> breakfast, homemade cornbread for dinner and supper. Does anyone ever >> make homemake Kraut anymore? My grand mothe made it every spring, when >> they lived on the farm. You'll are bringing back some "GOOD OLD >> MEMORIES". >> >> Frances TX >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com 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 > TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com 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 > TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >