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02-01-2010, 05:03 AM | #11 |
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We had a peddler that came about once a month that had a little, of a lot of different things, like medicines, spices, and a few staples. You could tell him what you needed, and the next trip he would bring it.
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02-01-2010, 05:39 AM | #12 |
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We raised hogs and had game chickens so I had plenty of pork, homemade sausage, country ham, eggs and culled chicken. My father's idea of a garden was 3-4x what we could possibly use since we didn't have time to tend it in the summer and give away the excess. He'd plant 100 tomato plants, thought 300 ears of sweet corn was minimum and one year, forgot that he had planted two acres of crowder peas. We had lots of fresh, canned and frozen corn, butter beans, snap beans, collards, cabbage, some lettuce, tons of tomatoes, crowder peas, watermelon, squash, etc. I learned the taste of good fresh food and what food picked at the proper time and put up properly tastes like. I never have developed a taste for commercially prepared vegetables.
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02-01-2010, 05:55 AM | #13 |
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That make two of us.
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We had a couple of peddlers, but they weren't horse-drawn. The Raleigh products man came around about once a month. He had all kinds of spices, extracts, drink mixes similar to Kool-Aid and other misc cooking items. The other was the Manor bread man. He came once a week and had bread, cinnamon rolls, hot rolls, snack cakes, etc. Mom baked a lot of bread, but she also bought some in case she didn't get time to bake during the week.
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So, how often did the Ice Man come by to fill the ice box?
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02-01-2010, 06:47 PM | #16 |
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We didn't have a Ice Man, or a Ice Box. I big dug well in the front yard was our Cooler. We put milk and anything we wanted to keep cool, into jars and lowered them down into the water so it would stay cool.
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02-02-2010, 05:52 AM | #17 |
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Believe it or not Kansas, we actually HAD electricity! Guess we were pretty advanced for our time.
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I've been in spring houses before. It's amazing how cool they can be from just the water running through them. Simple, yet effective.
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Quite so, rman!
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We had a guy come by in a panel truck jam full of stuff. He sold everything! He had a bunch of catologs you could order from and he would bring it next trip. Everybody put it "on the eye" and he had a "ledger" book to keep track of what you owed him.
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