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Show "I REMEMBER" BY THE PIP TIMERS j From Mrs. Harry Graham, Adair, IUlnols: I remember when I wa a Uttla girl (and I wai a little girl not only In ilia, but my name was Eva Lille) and the smallest of a family of six chU-dren. chU-dren. - Each winter there was a hog butchering day at our house. Early In the morning, about 4 a.m. Papa would start a roaring flre over which he placed a huge kettle ket-tle which was filled with gallons of water carried from the stock well some distance away. Several neighbors would come In. The hogs were killed, hung on poles resembling a guldepost with cross pieces, then scraped, cut up and cooled out for curing In the smokehouse with hickory wood. I .After Mama and the women served a delicious dinner, two or more men came into the house and began to grind and mix the sausage, while the others finished the lard cooking to the big kettle. Pig's feet and head meat were cooked in a smaller kettle. When the tender bones were removed, the broth was strained and returned re-turned to the kettle with the ground meat, and corn meal was added to make scrapple, which was fried as mush. Lots of hard work, but plenty of fun, especially especial-ly for the small-fry. We lived In Eldorado Township, McDonougn County. My trandma Little chose the, name Eldorado, which means "prosperous." All this was more than 60 years ago. (Send contribution, to thl. cal.ma t. Th Old Timer, C.mm.oUr Pr Strv let, Box W, Frnk(ort, Ktaluekr.) |