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as bad off 8ß we was. From de big house dey brung our mess of

vittals after. dark had done fell.

	ttpoke salad was et in dem days to clean a feller


out. Hit otnu up tender every spring end when it cut deep down in sand it looked white. It‘s an herb. Cut it; wash it and par boi‘; pour off water and ball up in balls in your hand; put in frying pan of hot grease (grease from ham or strip meat) and ~fry. Season with black pepper and salt and eat with new spring onions. Tender white stems are better than the salad and of course earlier. Ash cake was good wid poke salad and clabber or butter milk and best of all was sweet milk I Dat not only fill up yàur bel ly, but make you. fat and strong .

	ttScmetime de darkies would eat toô much and gît de colic. Fer dis dey would take and chaw pine needles and it would be all over wid den. On all de plantations dar was old womens, too old to do any work and dey would take and study what to do fer de ailments of grown folks and 111‘ chilluns. Fer de lii‘ chilluns and babies dey would take and ohaw up pIne needles and den spit it in de ill‘ chilluns mouths and make dem swallow. Den when dey was a teaehi& de babies to eat dey done de food de very s arne way. Dem old wirnmens made pine rosin pills froet de pine rosin what drapped from de pine trees and give de pills to de folks to take fer de back ache. Dey allus kept de pine trees gashed fer dis purpose. Den day also gashed de sweet gt~n fer to gît gum to ohaw. ‘Twaen‘t no sech thing as chawin‘ gum till thirt;y years ago. Sweet g~nTt, it‘s good fer dé indigestion and fer de toofies, when it don ‚ t git yer mouth all s tuck so as you can ‚ t say nothing. ~