The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-26

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aarine the juice of that noble
..ke. | say. a bird like that,
.5m as Caesar should have
4 ..r..-I. let his lordly carcass lake
|F- NJ at least two fine nights af-
r-.I November's surIy blasts
#... geld and forest bare.
~ t4a; fellow, cook hin with an
s~ransurate with his aristocracy
.. -.ilm of game, and you have
r to have been served upon
.... .#tchen when Jupiter had for
t#-OE's mighty crew.
this gentleman by shaking
sim. of a sapling in which he had
t..r ecd" by a dog of tho name of
-I.t but on no occasion allow Hec-
49,. cher more PIebian dog to
.-. inn. Have a split hickory stick
w.. ...rt Mr. PoSSum'S tail in it, and
...r him home IN triumph and
him in an empty barrel in the
-~... house. Mr.. NJ, b. Morton, of
ra-. He, Tenn, says the dog should
"r...cd "CIinker."
The next morning, bright and early,
c. nat 'possum into the custody of
Sre ~ our colored fellow-citizens of
49,. .,I schOOl who understands his
,--..r-=- He will lay the handle of
ID .. us IL O. iiiAi - AlCSh tA'd
r. .u enormous foot on the hickory
afft. IN either siden and then TAX the
animal by the tail and pull with all
high night until the neck is k
That IS the way to kill a 'pOssum. I
ha.. heard of barbarians shooting
then. never saw it, and would not
f.r any consideration allow it in my
r~.-.ure. Meanwhile, have a caul-
Arm of boiling water at hand in which
faf been somewhat dissolved a small
nauf5tv of fresh hickory ashes right
nr If the fire place. Blood in suf-
eeourv had come from the ears and
-...tn Of the 'pOssum if the execution
a~ know his buSinesS-my old play
fallow Alec. would turn the trick to
eya.rtude-and now. While the carcas
fstut warm, plunge him into the boil
ing water and pick him bare Of every
hair. and do it rapidly. Then dress
him and put him away to cool.
That night, the following night,
and even the third night let him take
the frost IN the open air, and he would
De al the better if frozen stiff.
And here is the way old Aunt Car
line used to cook him. She boiled him
till he was tender as butter in water
that had floating around in it sundry
pods Of red pepper. This became i'm
prcgnated with the fat of the varmint,
and she stewed it to the consistency
between soup and gravy, after lifting
his majesty out of it.
Now here is where Aunt Car'line
and her lord and master, uncle Archie,
could not agree. The old woman want
ed to put hin in an oven with sweet
taters and brown him. Archie prefer
red roasting the taters in the embers
and barbecuing the 'pOSSum before the
fire, bathing him every five minutes in
the gravy that esulted from his boil
ing. n finishing off with the taters
3. -Ez $500 - rrhiah yrac vet nnIJrad
the gravy. l have tried both. Sol
onion could not have made judgment
betwixt the different methods of Aunt
Carline and Uncle Archie. Either
would cause any man TO
swallow his tongue about the middle
Of the feast.
u hat is not all. Man loves
Tread as we'll as 'possum. And now,
at Halloween, is the season of the
lordIy pumpkin. The barbarians of
New England degrade this gentleman
by turning him into pie. Civilized
folk bring him to his legitimate des-
tiny and make him q constituent ele-
ment of bread. When [ was a boy
the forest area of Barren county, Ky,
was perhaps ten times what 1t IS
now, and frost. killing" frost, was al
WAYS tardy. and Outlines as late as All
Saints Day. Every farmer had his late
patch of corn for roasting ears during
october. In the last lays of that
month the corn was in the dough
and when it got a little harder. it was
plucked, shucked and grated, as you
would a nutmeg on a tin crater as big
ae 4 full sheet OF foolscaD paper,
bonded over a board. Talk about
corn meal-that's the stuff; but the
season cannot last above two weeks,
otherwise we would get too PROUD 20
die. And it is likely that feeding on
such. daily. we would not die at all,
We would stay so virtuous. Remem-
Der Enoch and Elijah.
Well, there's your meal. Now get
your pumpkin, not one Of those pale,
yellow chaps, but one of d muddy red.
"a great big fellow Take the pulp
from the rind and stew it to mush.
ON no account put any in it.
Pumpkin pie sugar Is insipld.
and with sugar it is a~bomination, fit
only for pagans. Slit your meal
grated meal, new from the cob; put IN
some cracklings-the pig killed the
dav before afforded them-and your
stewed pumpkin, and make into a
mess of a consistency between batter
and dough. Now, shovel up the
ashes where the hearth joins the fire
place. vine the surface clean with a
dishrag. pux your stuff down in copl-
GUS quantity; lay it over with big cab
hage leaves, white and crisp; cover
with hot embers, and then rake all the
live Goals in the fireplace on top When
G.ne and served with rich, sweet milk,
ratty. fresh. and sweet butter and the
5ajn of d 'possum, the mar VINO mas
lust swallowed a hog driver of old
anurbon would not leave that board
ct the invitation of Lucullus to feast
18th Lucullus, when Lucullus supped
9Th Lucullus.
In the absence of the 'pOssum, a fat
cen goose will serve; but to get the
r.-t results from that the feast must
,a pulled off at a still house, and a
s.aonshinc layout is about as good as
a1r. so far as the SAVIOR of the dish is
eaneerned. The goose must have been
Il gosling in April and fed for the pur-
..-. all the rest of spring, all of sum
1o.~ and throughout autumn until ac-
tuai winter. Now it is fat and ready
Us. the artist. Execute it by the bleed
Jug process in the roof of the mouth.
~ on your life shall you take d
t.alner eff. Dress it by splitting down
t1a back, caring for the giblets. Let
mat goose take the frost for at least
'." night before it is dressed, three
tEuts would be better with addeu
.a Their when the doubling is OH
..gnShipprS know what that means