Author: Daniel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Daniel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 1785-1800; a Series of Reminiscential Letters from Daniel Drake... to His Children
Author: Charles Daniel DrakePublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230102160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...but ' begin with cutting up the fat, a work to which boys are well adapted. The fat being "tried" out, the next labor was chopping sausage meat, which I began with a hatchet because too small to lift a heavier tool, and continued till I could use the axe with a vigorous arm. The stripping, twisting into links, hanging on poles, and moderate smokedrying succeeded. Lastly, the frying and the feast; for in those days of simple fare, the annual return of the sausage season was hailed by the whole family. To this hour I prefer good, and especially clean sausage, to any other meat. The same season and the same killing were followed by other labors of an interesting kind. A Jersey housekeeper could never neglect or forget the delicious mince pie, in the manufacture of which I have wielded the chopping axe full many a hour. For a long time, however, apples were too "dear" and scarce to justify a large application of them to that object. Our compositions, compared with those of modern times, were abundantly simple, but on that account more salubrious, and as our tastes were formed to no more savory mixture, they were eaten as delicious.' Other dainties still awaited us as the result of killing hogs. They were "dough-nuts" and "wonders," the latter being known to you under the name of crullers. I can find neither word in Webster, and from early association prefer the former. These sweet compounds of flour and milk and spices, .boiled in fresh lard till they assume a beautiful fawn color, are still my favorites, and can at any time maintain a rivalship even with sister Belle's soft gingerbread; on which, however, as it is past 12 o'clock and a starlight morning, I mean presently...
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Daniel 1785-1852 DrakePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014651464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
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Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Charles Daniel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Daniel Drake (1785-1852)
Author: Emmet Field HorinePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Charles Daniel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Charles Daniel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Charles D. DrakePublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498028608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1870 Edition.
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
Author: Charles D. DrakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780740470516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 1785-1800
Author: Daniel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description