An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton SinklerUniv of South Carolina Press, 1996 - 181 Seiten At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to the swampy Low Country region of South Carolina. Suddenly she found herself living in a totally unfamiliar environment - a cotton plantation in an isolated area along the Santee River. In monthly letters to her family she recorded thoughtful musings about her adopted home, and in a receipt book she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes that reflect her ties to both North and South. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, these documents provide a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South. |
Inhalt
Meats | 79 |
Vegetables | 87 |
Desserts | 94 |
Bread and Warm Cakes | 103 |
Sundry Recipes | 110 |
Household Formulas | 123 |
Medical Remedies | 134 |
Glossary | 161 |
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Seite 125 - ... all night. In the morning, pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it, and keep it for use. A table-spoonful of...
Seite 140 - In addition, put your feet in water, half leg deep, as hot as you can bear it, adding hotter water from time to time for a quarter of an hour, so that the water shall be hotter when you take your feet out than when you put them in : then dry them thoroughly, and put on warm thick woolen stockings, even if it be summer, for summer colds are the most dangerous ; and for twenty-four hours, eat not an, atom of food...
Seite 125 - ... receipt for making the soap is as follows: The ingredients for one hundred pounds do not cost more than one dollar and fifty cents. Take six pounds of potash, four pounds of lard, one-fourth pound of rosin ; • beat up the rosin, mix all together well, and set aside for five days ; then put the whole in a ten gallon cask of warm water, and stir twice a day for ten days ; at the expiration of which time, or sooner, you will have one hundred pounds of excellent soap. Strong lye-water or concentrated...
Seite 13 - North American botany, comprising the native and common cultivated plants north of Mexico; genera arranged according to the artificial and natural methods.
Seite 152 - REMEDY FOR CORNS. Soak the feet for half an hour two or three nights successively in a pretty strong solution of common soda. The alkali dissolves the indurated cuticle and the corn comes away, leaving a little cavity which, however, soon fills up. Corns between the toes are generally more painful than any others, and are frequently so situated as to he almost inaccessible to the usual remedies.
Seite 153 - The effect was almost magical. Pain and tenderness were at once relieved, and in a few days the granulations were all gone, the diseased parts dry and destitute of all feeling, and the edge of the nail exposed so as to admit of being pared away without any inconvenience. The cure was complete, and the trouble never returned.
Seite 140 - Many a useful life may be spared to be increasingly useful, by cutting a cold short off, in the following safe and simple manner. On the first day of taking a cold, there is a very unpleasant sensation of chilliness. The moment you observe this, go to your room and stay there • keep it at such a temperature as will entirely prevent this chilly feeling, even if it requires a hundred degrees of Fahrenheit. In addition, put your feet in water, half leg deep, as hot as you can bear it, adding hotter...
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