From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jul 13 10:27:16 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6DGRGjb016348; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:27:16 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6DGREVC016884 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:27:14 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6DDnWFI005474 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:49:32 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6DDnWmd005473 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:49:32 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6DCjRFI005295 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:45:27 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6DFMwob015408 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:22:58 -0600 X-Envelope-From: hornbeck@s-hornbeck.com Thu Jul 13 09:22:58 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6DFMwjb015352 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:22:58 -0600 Received: from smtp108.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp108.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.241]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k6DFMtOT009801 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:22:55 -0600 Received: (qmail 3053 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2006 15:22:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Shirley.s-hornbeck.com) (shirleyhornbeck@sbcglobal.net@66.122.5.141 with login) by smtp108.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2006 15:22:50 -0000 Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20060713081010.029d8a00@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:22:08 -0700 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Shirley Hornbeck Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: 1.301 (*) BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] This and That GEnealogy Tips - Interesting Historical Trivia #2 In those old days they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometime they could obtain pork which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat." Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes so for the next 400 years or so tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the load, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper crust." Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait to see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake." Shirley Hornbeck - THIS & THAT GENEALOGY TIPS: