This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00F5_01BEF149.D65A47A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: JAYANBOB@aol.com <JAYANBOB@aol.com> To: madlee@compu.net <madlee@compu.net>; drdenny@flash.net <drdenny@flash.net> Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 8:23 PM Subject: Fwd: [MIBE-AREA] RECIPE FOR DOING THE FAMILY WASH >In a message dated 8/27/99 1:34:36 PM Central Daylight Time, >Dorothy.M.Paul.1@nd.edu writes: > ><< "RECIPE FOR DOING THE FAMILY WASH > >> Written in its original spelling for a bride a few generations ago. > >>1. bild a fire in back yard to heet kettle of rain water. > >>2. set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert. > >>3. shave one hold cake lie sope in bilin water. > >>4. sort things, make three piles. 1 pile white. 1 pile cullord. 1 > >>pile work britches 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, rub collord, but > >> don't bile - just rench & starch. > >>7. take white things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then rench, > >> blew, and starch. > >>8. spred tee towels on grass. > >>9. hang old rags on fence. > >>10. pore rench water on flower bed. > >>11. scrub porch with hot sopey water. > >>12. turn tubs upside down. > >>13. go put on cleen dress - smooth hair with side combs - brew cup of > >>tee - set and rest and rock a spell and count blessins. > >> -Contributed" > >> > > > > This is reposted from another list..... the thing that amazes me is #5 - > they had to make STARCH!! Never thought about that before.... > > Dorothy > > > I'm on the Net: http://www.nd.edu/~dpaul > > > ==== MIBERRIEAREA Mailing List ==== > Berrien County Bibles > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mi/BerrienBibl > >> > > ------=_NextPart_000_00F5_01BEF149.D65A47A0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: [MIBE-AREA] RECIPE FOR DOING THE FAMILY WASH Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <MIBERRIEAREA-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (rly-zd01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.225]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:34:36 -0400 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:34:25 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13751; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990827133401.009e9560@nd.edu> X-Sender: Dorothy.M.Paul.1@nd.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:34:01 -0500 Old-To: MIBERRIEAREA-L@rootsweb.com From: Dorothy Paul <Dorothy.M.Paul.1@nd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [MIBE-AREA] RECIPE FOR DOING THE FAMILY WASH Resent-Message-ID: <hS6QpD.A.lWD.fotx3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: MIBERRIEAREA-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MIBERRIEAREA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MIBERRIEAREA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/47 X-Loop: MIBERRIEAREA-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: MIBERRIEAREA-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>"RECIPE FOR DOING THE FAMILY WASH >> Written in its original spelling for a bride a few generations ago. >>1. bild a fire in back yard to heet kettle of rain water. >>2. set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert. >>3. shave one hold cake lie sope in bilin water. >>4. sort things, make three piles. 1 pile white. 1 pile cullord. 1 >>pile work britches 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, rub collord, but >> don't bile - just rench & starch. >>7. take white things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then rench, >> blew, and starch. >>8. spred tee towels on grass. >>9. hang old rags on fence. >>10. pore rench water on flower bed. >>11. scrub porch with hot sopey water. >>12. turn tubs upside down. >>13. go put on cleen dress - smooth hair with side combs - brew cup of >>tee - set and rest and rock a spell and count blessins. >> -Contributed" >> > This is reposted from another list..... the thing that amazes me is #5 - they had to make STARCH!! Never thought about that before.... Dorothy I'm on the Net: http://www.nd.edu/~dpaul ==== MIBERRIEAREA Mailing List ==== Berrien County Bibles http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mi/BerrienBibl ============================== Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp ------=_NextPart_000_00F5_01BEF149.D65A47A0--