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Few things brighten a day more
than pleasant surprises like one
that arrived here recently.
A knock at the front door
brought the delivery of a hard
backed volume titled ALLOW AY
REMEMBERS. It’s a collection
of tales and facts of the history of
New Jersey’s Alloway Township,
an area just across the Delaware
River from Philadelphia. Sender
Bill Haskett keeps in touch here
periodically via personal notes
and chaired the township’s bicen
tennial celebration in 1988.
While we have no personal
ancentral roots in New Jersey, the
book is nevertheless fascinating.
It’s chocked full of interesting old
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photos, excepts from diaries, local
significant inventions, census
records of-early settlers, histories
of foundation families, important
deeds, development of towns and
transportation - the sort of historic
record any community could
potentially put together. This one
is superbly done.
Of special interest to this food
lover and cookbook collector is a ‘
section devoted to heirloom
recipes taken from what were
known as “keeping books.” Keep
ing books a term I’d never
heard used before were pain
stakingly hand-copied recipe col
lections. the kind a mother would
pass on to her daughter long
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before anyone had heard of Betty
Crocker, index card files or recipe
management software for PCs.
In this age of microwave soups
and instant bouillion cubes, direc
tions for making “veal glue,”
“cake soup,” or “pocket soup” tot
ally intrigued me. While the direc
tions suggest using a Jeg of veal,
early pioneers were probably as
likely to utilize a leg of venison.
After stripping the skin and fat,
the flesh was removed and boiled
gently for a long time, until the
resulting broth would set up into a
firm gel when chilled, the
broth was allowed to settle, the
clear jelly was drawn off the top
and placed in small amounts in tea
cups. Those cups were placed in a
kettle with some water in the bot
tom. and the water gently boiled
until the jelly in the cups evapor
ated into a thick, gluey
consistency.
After cooling, the resulting
“glue” patties were turned out
onto clean, dry flannel, which
would draw out remaining mois
ture. They were to be turned every
six to eight hours and put on new,
dry flannel as needed until firm
and dry. The resulting pieces
could be conveniently carried
along in a pocket until a traveler
became hungry. A small-walnut
sized piece of the glue could then
be heated and dissolved in a pint
of water to provide the equivalent
of instant soup for our forefathers.
And we thought fast food was
new.
Not only did pioneer homemak-
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 26, 1994-B9
ers brew up food, with the absence
of pharmacies and discount stores,
they had to resort to devising their
own medicinal and cosmetic
substances.
Let’s say you ran out of cold
cream. You could take equal
amounts of lard (rendered from
the hogs you helped raise and
butcher) and spermaceti (an oil
taken from the head of a whale),
add some blanched almonds
ground into a fine powder, then
mix than altogether with a little
honey and rose water.
' Rose water was made by steep
ing rose petals, preferably red
Damask rodes, in simmering
water, straining out the spent pet-
Antique Apple
Tree Demonstration
YORK (York Co.) York
Countians are invited to the Lan
dis Valley Museum in cooperation
with the Lancaster-based Back
Yard Fruit Growers (BYFG). A
workshop that will teach fruit tree
grafting will occur Saturday,
March 19, from 1-4:30 p.m. at the
Museum's Visitor Center, 214
miles North of Lancaster on Route
272. The workshop shows garden
ers interested in preserving “An
tique” apple how to graft or attach
old scion wood to a modem,
healthy rootstock. The tree which
is produced out of this union will
have all the characteristics of the
old tree fruit color, taste, shape
als and adding more periodically
until the desired strength was
reached. It was used in everything
from cosmetics to cookies as a fla
voring or fragrance.
This wonderful volume of his
tory and nostalgia was a delightful
surprise to receive and a timely
reminder of wisdom long ago
shared by The Farmer’s grand
mother, a super lady, still sadly
missed.
“Don’t tell me about the good
old days,” she would chuckle.
“I’ve lived them.”
After the “old fashioned” wint
er we’ve had, who’d argue with
that?
and size only on a smaller and
healthier tree; a tree that could be
planted in the backyard, large or
small.
Workshop attendees may bring
pencil-sized sticks from a favorite
apple tree they knew on the farm,
or obtain from the museum and
the fruit growers a scion from
among 100 plus choices of histori
cal apple trees. The BYFG and the
museum staff will offer instruc
tion, hands-on assistance, hand
outs and two ready-to-plant, label
ed trees for $l5 on Saturday after
noon, March 19. For reservations,
call (717) 569-0401.
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