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“Mr. President” was an old time radio show that aired in the 40’s and 50’s about events in the every day life of American presidents. To challenge listeners, the identity of the President in each episode was not made known until the end of the show.

The Internet Archive has quite a few episodes of “Mr. President” available as free MP3 downloads:

Old Time Radio Programs, Mister President –Download individual episodes of approximately 7mb each, or the whole collection of 29 episodes, which is 54mb.

(If you have slow internet service, a download manager is very helpful. I use the free Orbit Downloader to schedule large and multiple files for downloading overnight.)

Don’t have time to download all those shows? Would you like more episodes? Check out OTRCat.com:

Old Time Radio Catalog: Mr. President –CD of 75 episodes of  “Mr. President” in MP3 format, only $5 plus shipping. Must be played in a computer or special MP3 player device.

These would make wonderful supplements to your American History studies –and a great resource for your “audio learners”.

Blessings,

Denese

For even more free educational resources, please check my educational freebies tag archive and my Free Homeschooling Page.

Tags: American history, free audio, free mp3s, old stuff, old-time-radio, U S Presidents

Apple Johnnie Cake

by Mrs. Laura Chamberlain

One pint sour milk, 1 1/2 pint New Orleans molasses, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonsful cream tartar, 1 egg well beaten, 2 tablespoonsful melted lard. Peel, core, and chop fine, 3 large Russet apples, corn meal enough to make a stiff batter. Place a paper in the bottom of a well greased pan, bake 3/4 of an hour in a moderate oven, as it burns easily.

From The Centennial Cookery Book, 1887

Blessings,

Denese

 For even more eCookbooks and recipes, please see my recipes tag archive.

Tags: apples, old stuff, recipes

“Don’t eat no yeller snow!”

Tags: snow, The Ol' Hermit

There’s still snow on the ground…

“It’s layin’ around and waitin’ on some more.”

Tags: nature-photos, old-sayin's, snow, The Ol' Hermit

POT LIKKER 

Into 3 quarts of cold water, put a 1/2-pound piece of salt pork and place on fire to boil for 45 minutes. Wash young turnip greens in several waters and clean them well. Put them into the pot along with the pork and let boil for another hour. Drain the water from the greens and meat; chop the greens rather fine and season well with salt and pepper. Place the greens on a hot dish and on top arrange slices of the pork; pour over the greens and meat about 1 1/2 cups of the water in which the greens were cooked (pot likker). Cornmeal dodgers are frequently served along with this dish and are arranged around the greens.

CORN MEAL DODGER FOR POT LIKKER

1/2 pint white corn meal

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons melted butter or other shortening

cold water

Add salt to corn meal and stir in the melted butter. Add sufficient cold water so dough will hold shape. Mould dough into biscuit size pieces and drop into boiling pot likker. Cook in closely covered pot for twenty minutes. Serve garnished with the greens from the "pot likker".

From: Southern Cookbook -322 Old Dixie Recipes (1935)

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, old stuff, recipes, southern-recipes

Are you or your ancestors from the Smoky Mountains area?

Check out this neat website that lists the genealogy of over 100,000 Smoky Mountain Tennessee families:

Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest

(All you in-laws of mine need to visit this site, I got a little lost on it this morning and found out some interesting tidbits that I didn’t know before!)

Thanks go out to Mr. Doug on Mt LeConte for the link.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: genealogy, Great Smoky Mountains, history

On having to tote water into the house all week:

“All this totin’ water makes me feel like I’m back in the Pigpen Holler days…and them girls sure could use the water!”

(5 sisters)

Tags: The Ol' Hermit

A Harvest Drink

Mix with 5 gallons good cool water, 1/2 gallon of molasses, 1 quart vinegar and 2 ounces powdered ginger.

From: Colonial Recipes by Maude A. Bomberger

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: beverages, recipes

Ever wondered how to cook leather breeches or collard greens? …or how to make red-eye gravy or apple dumplin’s?

Find recipes for all these and more at:

The Table of Our Ancestors –Old Time Southern Recipes, part of the free online Tennessee genealogy project “TNGenWeb”

There’s even a whole section on possum …and you never know when that info might come in handy!

Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese

Tags: genealogy, possums, recipes, southern-cooking, Tennessee

Fresh Homemade Sausage

1 pig or hog*

Coooold weather

Legg’s Old Plantation Pork Sausage Seasoning #10 -8 oz. bag seasons 25 lbs. of meat, price is about $2.50 per package (or your own sausage recipe)

Butcher the pig

Cut your meat up, add extra fat (anywhere from 5 to 8 parts meat/1 part fat )*

Grind the meat and fat together

Add seasoning –add extra red pepper if you like it hot/more sage if you like it sagier

Mix, mix, mix and mix some more

Fry a test piece

Adjust fat and seasoning if necessary

Eat –yum!

Freeze or can.

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Canned Sausage

Fry sausage in balls

Pack in hot pint jars

Pour grease over sausage (divide evenly between each jar –should be about an inch of grease in each)

Put lids on the jars and turn upside down

Let cool completely and store in cool place

*Note: A hog is just a BIG pig!

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Blessings,

Denese

*Update: I should have noted -If you don’t cut the fat off your meat, you shouldn’t have to add any extra fat.

Tags: canning, recipes, sausage