Reblogged from Vanbytheriver
My plans for a busy day were ruined the moment I downloaded Linda’s new book.
It was much anticipated, maybe from the moment I met her in person last summer.
She and her mother have a gift for telling a story.
And it shows.
They took me back to a time and place that made me understand a lot more about my own family, and how they survived the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
They did it with love, devotion to family, tremendous sacrifice, hard work and most of all, a sense of humor.
Thank you for proving that it is possible to put that storytelling tradition in words on a page.
And thank you for ruining my plans of yesterday.
It was a delight.
**The book is now available in Kindle. I didn’t want to wait for the paperback.
Her blog : https://nutsrok.wordpress.com/
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Great post! Thank you
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Thanks so much.
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I will check that app thingy over the weekend, Linda! 😊
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You might like it. I use it all the time.
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I am afraid I could get glued … lol!
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Mine sticks to me!
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Haha…. you are so funy! I cannot wait to check it out, Linda!
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Thanks have added this to my reading list.
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I hope you enjoy! I had fun writing it.
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Congratulations on your book!! So exciting!!
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It is gratifying. I have always meant to write this book.
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I believe that too.
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What is Poke Salad?
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Poke salad is a wild, strong-tasting green growing in the US Deep South. It grows briefly in early spring. For vitamin-starved poor people it is a God-send at the end of a long winter when they’ve been getting by on little more than dried peas, beans, and cornbread. It is toxic when raw, causing severe gastric symptoms. Has to be parboiled with first water tossed away. That water was usually cooled and given to fattening pigs as de-wormer. After second-cooking with fat back (Pig skin and fat), it is served with cornbread and pepper-sauce, another rich source of vitamin C. Pepper sauce is simply hot garden peppers brought to a boil in vinegar. My family had the same jar for years, just kept adding vinegar. It would set your mouth on fire! The cornbread can be soaked in the broth. This could be entire meal or served with dry beans. It produces a deep purple grape colored berry at the top. Chickens eat those berries, and get purple diarrhea, hence the phrase,
“Wipe off some of that lipstick. Your mouth looks like a chicken’s ass in pokeberry season.” Chickens don’t worry that much about how their asses look.
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Thank you for explaining it to me.
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I haven’t yearned for poke salad lately, but then I haven’t been starved down.
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Hahaha! You have to be starving to want to eat a poke salad? LOL!!
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Pretty much. My grandmother used to can it. Folks were starving for vegetables by the end of the winter. Mother said her mother canned everything she could harvest and had jars stacked waist high, three deep against one wall in her bedroom. Peaches, pears, jam, greens, beans, peas, carrots, squash, tomatoes, corn, eggplant! Their smokehouse was full and the floor was covered with potatoes
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I can imagine that back then the women did a lot of canning! I can but not like they did back then. I can soups, ect.
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I cooked and canned seven quarts of dried pintos and neck bones today. I can everything I can get my hands on. It’s addictive. I love to see my shelves full.
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That’s great that you do that! I use to can more than I do now but I just can meals now instead of vegetables like green beans. It’s getting harder for me to can so I am tapering off.
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I do soups a lot.
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It’s nice to just open them and heat them up and whalla you have dinner!
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Healthy fast food.
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LOL! Yes!
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She has her life just like she wants it.
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