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Pigsfoot jelly & persimmon beer : foodways from the Virginia Writers' Project / edited by Charles L. Perdue, Jr.

Title
Pigsfoot jelly & persimmon beer : foodways from the Virginia Writers' Project / edited by Charles L. Perdue, Jr.
Publication
Santa Fe, N.M. : Ancient City Press, c1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Perdue, Charles L., 1930-
  • Perdue, Charles L., 1930-2010.
  • Virginia Writers' Project.
Description
115 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Pigsfoot jelly and persimmon beer.
Subject
  • Food habits > Virginia > History
  • Cooking > Virginia
  • Cooking, American > Southern style
  • Virginia > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-112).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"Virginia eats -- New Englander's initiation to Virginia cooking -- Cooking in Grand-mother's and Great-grand-mother's day -- Negro plantation life: cooking by the fireplace -- Recipies from Gloucester Court House and near by communities -- Food and drinks of Virginia -- Leather breeches -- Shuckie beans -- How salt was made -- 'Makin' out' in war times -- Dried pumpkin -- Making flesh of living animals -- an unusual food dish -- Apple peeling time in the country -- Evolution of breadmaking in Wise County -- Biscut beaters -- Fox-knots -- Homemade sausage cured in corn shucks -- salit weeds -- dry jam -- old time pound cake -- A barrel of persimmon beer for Christmass -- English wassail bowl -- Birch beer -- Teas for the table -- Bee huntin' -- Tale about molassas boiling -- Sugar cane boiling-"Sorgum molassas" -- Tree molassas and sugar"
ISBN
0941270742
LCCN
^^^92009356^//r95
OCLC
  • 25507846
  • SCSB-9986256
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library