The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-24
Postum andGoose
Pumpkin andT obacco

new from the cob: put in some crack
lings-the pig killed the day before af-
fcrded them-and your stewed pump
kin, and make into a mess Of con-
s!stency between batter and dough.
Now, shovel up the ashes where the
hearth joins the fireplace. wipe the sur
face clean with dishrag. put your
stuff down in copious quantity; lay 1t
over with cabbage leaves. white and
crisp; cover with hot embers, and
then rake all the live Goals in the fire.
place on top. When done and served
with rich. sweet milk. nutty, fresh and
sweet butter, and the loin of pos
sum. the man who has just swallowed
hog driver of old Bourbon would not
leave that board at the invitation OF
Lucullus to feast with Lucullus, when
Lucullus supped with Lucullus.
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In the absence of the 'pOssum, fat
green goose will serve; but to get the
best results from that the feast must
be pulled off at a still house, and a
mocnshine layout is about as good as
any, so far as the SAVIOR OF the dish is
concerned. The goose must have been
gosling in April aRd fed for the pur-
pose all the rest OfSthe spring, all Of
summer and throughout autumn until
actual winter. Now it is fat and ready
for the artist. Execute it by the bleed
ing process in the roof of the mouth.
Not on your life shall you take a feath-
er on. Dress it by splitting down the
back. caring for the giblets. Let that
goose take the frost for at least one
night before it is dressed, three nights
would be better with added days Then
when the doubling is off''-moonshin-
ers know what that means-have ready
your goose with the feathers on and
stuffed with onions, cornbfead crumbs,
sausage meat, the real sauSage-none
or your dog or bull beef-a Glove of
garlic cut up, spice Glove, or two or
three, or four. Then surround that
goose, so prepared. with a wall of clay
such as brick are made of, roll the
thing. now nearly as big as a whisky
barrel, into the furnace whence the fire
mad been drawn; put the Goals back
over the mass, sit down and play
game of seven-up with three other
good fellows and good players, with
stakes just big enough to excite inter-
est and too small to arouse cupidity:
keep the thing up till a-cOuple O'Clock
IN the morning, when the crockery is
drawn from the fire, broken with
sledge, and skin and feathers adhering
10 the crockery, and there you have a
dish that, had il been set before him,
would have caused Adam to reject the
apple. Imagine that With pumpkin
bread, 'pOssum, and-moonshine whis-
ky in which you could taste the corn
silk!
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Some time ago I tried TO tell what
should follow a feast of pot-Iicker. a
broth of equal excellence with 'possum
or goose, and as promotive of felicity
and longevity. I allude TO a quid of
tobacco. l have not now that compost
ton before me: but when l saw it in
print l realized that had been guilty
of a series of omissions, and as l have
been asked to repeat the thing by sun
dry persons, who never knew it except
from hearsay, 1 shall now propose a
new and a more accurate edition, as
follows, viz:
In the first place, II "barrens" of
Kentucky is the land where the tobacco
plant attains its acme. There, on d
frosty morn in autumn, the virgin wood
exudes saltpetre and the soil is fer
tile enough for hemp or turnip with
out embarrassment to its exhaustIess
energies. That was when 1 was a boy.
Rocky. rough, a sinkhOle on every
tract; subterranean streams. draining
every square mile; the Mammoth cave.
JNNN N~AD1S NAiC Ai4ACs lttC NEStLdDiG
growth scrub hickory, scrub post oak.
wild grapevine, dense hazelnut thicket.
here a black walnut, there a red dog
wood-everywhere May apple. perhaps
from the mandrakes with which Leah
hired Jacob of Rachel.
Go here and clear a patch in the late
June or early July. digging up all the
stumps possible; pile the brush and get
all the rails you can of the post oaks
and haul off the fire wood. Leave the
debris to rot till dry spell in Janu-
airy; then set il afire. and dig I'D the
remaining stumps. Now pillow it with
jumping cutter ahead of a very mar
row bull tongue" and harrow. piling
the roots. Repeat this operation when
the winds of March have made the
ground dry enough for the plow after
the rains. the sleets, the freezes. and
the thaws of February. Get every root
out of the way and again in April go
over it. pillow and harrow In May, about
the 18TH piOw and harrow a fourth
time, "lay the ground off, as for corn.
three feet each way, and then trans
plant the tobacco from the bed. They
used to make hills for this, but that has
been found to be useless labor. When
the plants have been set for some eigh-
teen days, go over the ground with the