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cabins”and * ‘finishing them off,’’though little about how they were furnished,and nothing about what the backwoods settlers lived upon in those days, and what were their habits of life whereby their physical strength was sustained and developed, and they were enabled to maintain their equilibrium in the contest for subsistence. Society then demanded the substantial of fare only, oftentimes from necessity, but more generally, I believe, from choice, because most in consonance with the demands of their frugal nature. *The bill of fare of those days might be summed up about as follows: “We had our large hominy and small hominy, large pone, johnny' cake, hoe cake, and dodgers, 'boiled dumplings and fried cakes, all made of corn meal. Of meats we had hog’s meat, venison, opossums, raccoons and squirrels. Of fowls we Jiad wild turkeys, pheasants, wild pigeons and ducks, all of which were cooked in divers ways to suit the taste, or in accordance with the customs of the times. There were in use several kinds of collee; ?s, bread coffee, crust coffee, meal coffee, potato coffee, and after wheat was raised, wheat and flour coffee. For tea, we had sassafras,spicewood, beech leaf, and sycamore.*chips. In the spring we had many kinds of weeds boiled for greens to eat with our meat. In the summer and fall we had Irish potatoes; for fall and winteriuse, pumpkins and turnips. The pumpkins were dried for winter use by cutting them in rings and placing them on poles, and hanging them on the joists in front of the fire place.”Johnny cake was a specialty, because
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Logansport Daily Star
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 02, 1875
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