Title: The strawberry apple tree
Description: A nonfiction book, 1971, describes the lifestyle of the Daniel family, from 1832 to 1935.
Born 1896, Ms. Patterson describes living in Hughes Spring, TX, among other things, what they ate:

Milk and butter from cows, buttermilk.
Did not like beef to eat.
Ate wild turkey, quail, hogs, Squirrel, Chicken and eggs - no goats, geese, or rabbit.
Collected wild foods, ie, berries, nuts, 

Grew English peas, okra, peppers, sweet and Irish potatoes, turnip greens, corn/hominy, peaches and apples

Her mother made salt bread and canned tomatoes, peaches to sell.

They moved to the city 1920, apparently so she could attend college and SMU.
Her father was a scholar, and she a graduate of SMU, about 1941, taught school until she went blind.

A valuable record of foods people ate 100 yrs ago.
Subjects: Early Texan family Nutrition, Farming
Places: Hughes Springs, TX; Omaha, TX
People: Grace Daniel Patterson (1896-)
Time periods: 1896 -1971