PERSIMMON CORNBREAD Sift meal and add your ingredients then your persimmons that have been washed and the seeds taken out and mash them and put in and stir well together.  Grease pan well and pour in and bake.  Eat with fresh meat.

PERSIMMON BEER Gather your persimmons, wash and put in a keg, cover well with water and add about two cups of meal to it and let sour about three days.  That makes a nice drink.

Boil persimmons just as you do prunes now day and they will answer for the same purpose.

ASH CAKE Two cups of meal and one teaspoon of salt and just enough hot water to make it stick together.  Roll out in pones and wrap in a corn shuck or collard leaves or paper.  Lay on hot ashes and cover with hot ashes and let cook about ten minutes.

CORNBREAD JOHNNY CAKE Two cups of meal, one half cup of flour about a teaspoon of soda, one cup of syrup, one-half teaspoon salt, beat well.  Add teaspoon of lard.  Pour in greased pan and bake.

[HW:  Water or Milk added?]

(Old Mistress wud give us this corn bread johnny cake about four o’clock in de evening and give us plenty of buttermilk to drink wid it.  Dey had a long trough.  Dey kep’ hit so clean fur us.  Ev’ry evening about four dey would fill de trough full uv milk and wus abut 100 of us chilluns.  We’d all get round de trough and drink wid our mouth and hold our johnny cake in our han’s.  I can jes see mahself drinkin now.  It wus so good.)

BEEF DUMPLINS Take the brough (meaning broth) from boiled beef and season with salt, peper and add you dumplins jus as you would chicken dumplins.

Pick and wash beet tops just as you would turnip greens and cook with meat to season.  Season to suit taste.  This makes the best vegetable dish.

POTATO BISCUIT Two cups flour.  Two teaspoons of baking powder, pinch of soda, teaspoon of salt, tablespoon of lard, two cups of cooked, well mashed sweet potatoes and milk to make a nice dough.

IRISH POTATO PIE Boil potatoes, set off and let cool, then mash well and add one cup sugar, two eggs, butter size of an egg, milk, spice to suit taste, bake in pie crust.  Irish potatoes make a better pie than sweet potatoes.

Interviewer:  Mary D. Hudgins
Person Interviewed:  Mose Evans
Home:  451 Walnut
Aged:  76

Radios from half a dozen houses blared out on the afternoon air.  Ben[TR:?] Winslow was popular but ran a poor second to jazz bands in which moaning trombones predominated.

At one or two houses a knock or jangling bell had roused nobody.  “They’s all off at work,” a neighbor usually volunteered.  But in this block of comfortable cottages fronting on the paved section of Walnut evidently there were a goodly number of stay-at-homes.  A mild prosperity seemed to pervade everything.  The Walnut section is in the “old part of town”.  Some of the houses had evidently been built during the 90s; but they were well kept up and painted.