Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-17
FINE COOKING ON
CHESTNUT HUNT
Tazewel Young Folks Enjoy Brief
Vacation on Peery Farm West
ofTown-Return by Moonlight.

A party of young folks, COM
prising a number of the most
proficient practitioners of Do
mestic Science in the county
were the uninvited guests of Mr..
and Mrs. C. II. Peery at the old
Peery homestead west of town
last Monday afternoon and even
ing. The ostensible purpose of
the journey was the desire to
commune with nature and secure
as many of natures products
chestnuts as the squirrels and
possumns and coons and other
varmints of the woods had not
packed away in their store
houses to feast upon in the
snowy, wintry weather ahead.
The party journeyed thither
about sixteen strong, divided
as TO sex about three to one in
favor of the weaker. each carry
ing culinary utensils frying
pans, skillets. coffee pots, dishes.
and one piece of artillery "a %
calibre rifle. The party dropped
anchor under Il sugar tree, some
going to the mountain for chest
nuts, others remaining to pre-
pare the evenings repast. "Sev-
eral' chestnuts were picked up
and as the sun began to hide its
face behind the hills the chest
nut hunters meandcred back to
camp. the smell of beakfast
bacon, sausage. hamburger and
fried eggs having been waited
by the breezes to the chetsnut
grove causing that woody, steep
hillside to be evcuated of its
human trespassers in short or
der.
The party soon were again to-
gether, the fires were replenish-
ed, the skittlets greazed and the
coffee pot showed signs Of being
near the fire. The breakfast
bacon, hamburger stake, fried
apples and eggs were prepared
by the young culinary experts
and the preparation of supper
soon under way. The "boys"
busted themselves by watching
the intricate processes of prepar-
ing meal, making note of the
many little delicate touches that
go to make toothesome and
digestible dishes; kept up the
fires, and brought fresh water
from nearby spring. Frequent
comment and criticism was
heard about the cooking -one
gentleman rising to remak that
too much 20c lard was being
used in frying the bacon, and
that the apples were burning,
ct cetera, ct cetera. But the
occasion was not marred by any
of these tragedies. When supper
was announced, each member of
the party helped him or herself
to bread, piled on several slices
of breakfast bacon, a pat of
hamburg, passed his cup for
coffee, reached for the sugar
and cream and then went to it.
Cake and candy and fruits
served as desert, but after all
had been satisfied quantity
was left over. The dishes were
gathered up, the fire put out
and by the light of silvery moon
the trip back to town was made
without incident. One or more
OF the young men present ex-
pressed desire for q repetition
Of this trip and to again have
the pleasure of tasting the
toothesome viands of these ex-
pert Tazewell cooks. A rumor
was current that one gentleman
present had about perfected
arrangements whereby the SER
vices of one of the cooks would
be secured permanently, but, in
spite of painstaking work the
rumor could not be confirmed.
The party included Misses Hattie
Fudge, Margaret Harman, Cora
lie Laird, Blanche Brown,
Rachel Bowen, Bessie Jackson,
George and Bessie Cockett,
Lottie Mcpherson and Myrtle
Johnson; Messrs. Jas. w. Har-
man, R. o. Crockett, S. M. B.
Coulling, jr., Robert Moore,
Walter Kiser, and another.