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butter, a little bit of cream for seasoning. My mother and grandmother never had recipes that didn't call for bits of cream and butter. Except coffee - I think that’s the only thing they didn’t put butter in.
"Now of course the old houses had mouth-blown windowpanes and they had fireplaces. Most of them burned down because the fireplaces were just chinked with red clay and clay would dry up and fall out and fire would resjflt. So we had lots of fires in those days.”
Houses Improved
“Now as houses began to get better, if you lived in a section with red clay you could make your house out of brick and whenever you see an old house of brick the brick was made on the grounds close by. So we had brick houses - that was an improvement over the log huts. If you lived close to where there was stone you had stone homes - beautiful stone homes. Then you had outbuildings: smoke houses, hen houses, and barns.
‘‘All homes were selfsufficient. They made their own furniture, and they made their own feather beds - everybody raised geese - and they would pluck the geese and make the pillows artd also mattresses out of the down. Of course they made quilts - and the square shop nails. They put their own homes together. Neighbors exchanged work: no money was exchanged. Most of the houses had shingles and they were made on the place. Most of the sidewalks were made out of stone or brick, or crushed white stone.
“They'd heat the stone in a fire until it got real hot and then they’d drop it in cold water and beat it with a hammer. I have a hammer at home spread out like a mop that was left on the place. I use it for a door stop."
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