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STIR CAKE BATTER CLOCKWISE OR THE CAKE WON'T RISE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; SCOTTSVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Date learned: 10-12-1973
A TIME TO AVOID BAKING CAKES AND BREAD
IF YOU WANTED TO BAKE EITHER A BREAD OR A CAKE THAT NEEDED TO RAISE
BEFORE BAKING, YOU SHOULD NOT DO IT DURING YOUR MENSTRUAL PERIOD
BECAUSE THE BREAD OR CAKE WOULD NOT RAISE.
Submitter comment:
TOLD TO INFORMANT BY HER MAID, MRS. BERTHA REID, NEGRO, WHO WAS 48
AT THE TIME.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BODILY FUNCTIONS
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination Food Drink -- Manner of preparation Process Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Date learned: 07241968 REID, BERTHA, MRS.
LEGEND: PROHIBITION
THERE IS A METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON THE CORNER OF GARLAND
AND JEFFERSON IN DETROIT. DURING THE YEARS OF PROHIBITION THE
PASTOR THERE WAS REVEREND STIDGER, KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC AS AN
ARDENT PROHIBITIONIST. ON TOP OF HIS CHURCH WAS A REVOLVING
CROSS THAT WAS ILLUMINATED AND COULD BE SEEN FROM THE RIVER.
IT IS ALLEGED THAT WHEN THIS CROSS WAS LIT AND REVOLVING, THIS
WAS A SIGNAL TO THE RUM-RUNNERS ON THE RIVER CONCERNING WHETHER
THE GUARDS WERE ON DUTY OR NOT, SO THAT THEY COULD MOVE THE
CONTRABAND ACROSS THE RIVER.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDFATHER (MR. VAN ANTWERP) HAS TOLD ME OTHER STORIES OF THE
RUM-RUNNING DURING PROHIBITION. HE SAYS HE KNOWS FOR A FACT IT
WAS GOING ON, BUT AS TO WHETHER THE CROSS ON THE CHURCH HAD ANY-
THING TO DO WITH IT, HE THINKS IT WAS ONLY A RUMOR. HE DID SAY
THAT IT POSSIBLY COULD HAVE HAPPENED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE PARK
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
LEGEND: PROHIBITION
THERE IS A METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON THE CORNER OF GARLAND
AND JEFFERSON IN DETROIT. DURING THE YEARS OF PROHIBITION THE
PASTOR THERE WAS REVEREND STIDGER, KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC AS AN
ARDENT PROHIBITIONIST. ON TOP OF HIS CHURCH WAS A REVOLVING
CROSS THAT WAS ILLUMINATED AND COULD BE SEEN FROM THE RIVER.
IT IS ALLEGED THAT WHEN THIS CROSS WAS LIT AND REVOLVING, THIS
WAS A SIGNAL TO THE RUM-RUNNERS ON THE RIVER CONCERNING WHETHER
THE GUARDS WERE ON DUTY OR NOT, SO THAT THEY COULD MOVE THE
CONTRABAND ACROSS THE RIVER.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDFATHER (MR. VAN ANTWERP) HAS TOLD ME OTHER STORIES OF THE
RUM-RUNNING DURING PROHIBITION. HE SAYS HE KNOWS FOR A FACT IT
WAS GOING ON, BUT AS TO WHETHER THE CROSS ON THE CHURCH HAD ANY-
THING TO DO WITH IT, HE THINKS IT WAS ONLY A RUMOR. HE DID SAY
THAT IT POSSIBLY COULD HAVE HAPPENED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE PARK
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Food: Recipe
Plain Gingerbread:
1 cup dark cooking molasses
1 cup sour cream
1 egg
1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in a little warm water
1 teaspoon salt
1 heaping teapoon ginger
Make about as thick as a cupcake. To be eaten warm.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Baking ; FOOD ; Gingerbread ; RECIPE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Food Naming
Slice up big chunks of bread in milk with sugar and cinnamon. This is called "Poles."
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Old Fashioned Molasses Candy
Mix 2 cups molasses with 1 cup brown sugar and 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil until brittle. Add 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon butter, and 1 teaspoon soda and quickly remove to a buttered plate. As soon as it cools, and before it hardens, pull until light.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Apple Sauce
Peel and core apples and place in a pot over low flame with water 1/3 as full as the pot is full of apples. Stir. It will melt down in 15 or 20 minutes into apple sauce.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Orange Marmalade
Slice 4 oranges and 3 lemons. Add 6 cups water. Leave overnight. Cook 30 minutes. Leave overnight again. Add honey, less than equal parts. Cook 10 minutes, pour into sterile jar and seal with paraffin.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Rose Honey
Warm, don't boil, honey with crushed rose petals. Let stand 3 days. Strain.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Taffy (Salt Water)
Sugar (substitute molasses for molasses taffy candy)
Water
Vinegar (toughens candy)
Butter
Vanilla
Cook, put piece of salt, hard boil. Set in hollow pan, place in snow, cool. Butter hands, pull. (Whitest piece gets prize.)
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Prospect
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Making Molasses
Sugar cane, feed cane (cut, stripped; take leaves [head] off) into a mill.
Mule walks around mill to turn.
Pipe runs to pans with four areas (fire underneath pans).
Each pan gets finer (skim, gets redder). Final pan pull out stopper and runs into jars.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Prospect
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |
Chess Pie
Chess pie was named by a slave cook who when called upon to fix a pie at the last minute put the ingredients together, served the pie. The guests asked the name of the pie and she replied, "It's jest pie." The guests thought she said "Chess" so that name stuck.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Pastry Sweet Dessert |