Interviewer: He's not as tall as? 303: As he is not as tall as I. Interviewer: Okay. but I'm not as tall as? 303: As him. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You say he could do that better than? 303: Than I. Interviewer: Okay. Um. If something belongs to me then you'd say it's? 303: Uh that's my hammer. Interviewer: Okay. Um. But if something belongs to yo- if something belongs to me you say it's mine. If something belongs to you you'd say it's? 303: That's that belongs to me. Interviewer: Okay. You say that's not mine that's? 303: That belongs to you. Interviewer: Okay. Would you say that's yours or that's yours or? {C: pronunciation} 303: That's yours. Interviewer: Okay. And if it belongs to both of us you'd say it's? 303: Uh we're partners. Interviewer: Okay. Or it's ou-? 303: I own as much as you do of it. Interviewer: Okay so it's it's not mine it's not yours it's? 303: Belongs to both of us. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Would you say it's ours or? Ours or? 303: It's ours Interviewer: Okay. 303: together. Interviewer: Okay something belongs to them then it's? 303: How's that? Interviewer: If something belongs to them. 303: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 You'd # say that it's? 303: It belongs to you. Interviewer: Okay but to group of people there you say it's It belongs to them then it's? It's not ours it's? 303: Wouldn't this belong to you then. It's not ours. Interviewer: Okay. Would you talk about it's theirs or theirs or? 303: It's theirs. Interviewer: Okay. And if something belongs to him then it's? 303: It's his. Interviewer: Okay. And if something belongs to hers to her then it's? 303: It's hers. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Say if. If people had been over to visit you and they were fixing to leave. You might ask them well when are you? 303: Well. When you coming back? Interviewer: Okay. Would you ever use the word you all or y'all or? 303: Oh- oh if there's a bunch I say you all. Interviewer: Okay. 303: And if's it's just one I'd say two I'd just say y'all. Interviewer: What's that? If there's just one 303: #1 then it's uh # Interviewer: #2 or two # 303: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # 303: four or five of 'em I'd say you all come back. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And if there's just two I say y'all come back anytime you'd like. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Say if if they'd been over a group of people had been over to see you. And um. They say they had um you asked them about where their coats were. 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: You might ask well where are 303: Where are your coat at? Interviewer: Okay. Would you say if there's a group of people would you say your coats or would you say 303: S- I'd say where are your all coats are at. Interviewer: Okay. And um. {NS} Okay what about what about if you just had two people there. You'd say where are? 303: Where is my coat? Interviewer: Okay. Um. Suppose there had been a party and you hadn't been able to go to it you would ask about the people that had gone you might ask well who? 303: Who was there? Interviewer: Okay. Would you ever say who all who was there? 303: Who all was there. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. And suppose there was a group of children. And they obviously belonged to more than one family. 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: And you wanted t-. Would you ask um would you ask about who would you say who all's children are they? 303: Uh I'd ask Who all's children are y'all. You. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And suppose someone had made a speech that you hadn't heard. You wanted to know what he said. Would you ask what all did he say or? What did you say or? How how would you ask that? 303: What all did he say. Or what all did he talk about. Interviewer: Okay. And um. You say no one else will look out for them you say they've got to look out for? 303: Yourself. Interviewer: Okay. But talk about them you say they've 303: #1 the- them # Interviewer: #2 gotta look out # 303: they've got to got to look out for theyselves. Interviewer: Okay. And if no one else will do it for 'em you say he'd better do that? 303: Hisself. Interviewer: Okay. What's made out of flour and baked in loaves? 303: Flour. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What kind of bread? 303: Uh Interviewer: Can you? 303: light bread. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Is that does that rise? 303: Ye- yes. Yes ma'am it rise. Interviewer: What's put in it to make it rise? 303: Yeast. Interviewer: Okay. What other kinds of things are made out of flour? 303: Well there's A whole lot macaroni. Made out of flour. Interviewer: What kinds of bread? 303: Uh. Yo- uh. Make light bread uh or gingerbread or Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: There's some more that I can't think of. Interviewer: What about made out of corn meal? 303: Well you can make far as I know what they call corn dumplings. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Out of the meal. Interviewer: How tell me about that how's that made? 303: Best made with meat with a ham bone when you got to use no the best meat off 'em. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And uh you cook that first then put a little salt in it then salt it up and Then get your meal and stir up. And cook that 'til it's thick Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And then uh. Roll the dough out of the meal and a little a little uh cooks. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Then drop it in there and let it cook. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: It's called meal du- dumpling. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And it's good to Interviewer: Yeah. 303: Cook with ham. Interviewer: What what other things? 303: #1 With a little- # Interviewer: #2 What about # something made out of just corn meal and salt and water? 303: That's what you call plain corn bread. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Um. What if it's just got salt and water and corn meal though? 303: And corn meal? Interviewer: Uh-huh. Any it's something that it's not hard. You can just eat it with a spoon. 303: That's corn soup. Interviewer: Corn soup? 303: Uh-huh. Interviewer: What's that like? 303: Well I don't know how they make it. I know it's called corn soup. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about mush have you ever heard of that? 303: Uh mush. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Corn meal mush or corn mush. Yeah I've eaten lots of that when I was a boy. Interviewer: What other things did your mother make out of corn meal? What about something she might fry in deep fat and you might eat with fish? 303: Well I let's see Well th- my mother always always made homemad- homemade cornbread to eat with fish. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: That she always done. Interviewer: Do you ever make something small? Like either pat it over like this? 303: What? Interviewer: Ever make something like you shape with your hands or? #1 Just a little- # 303: #2 A biscuit. # Biscuit. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: {D: I mean} {X} it's with a hand or either made with a cup. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. You ever heard of hush puppies? 303: Yes ma'am. #1 You make # Interviewer: #2 What's- # 303: that with corn. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Meal. {X} Eat. {X} Interviewer: What- what do you call that? 303: Hush puppies I think. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Okay you say that there's two kinds of two kinds of bread. Homemade bread and the kind that you buy at the store. And that's called? 303: {D: Light bread.} Interviewer: Okay. Um. What's fried in deep fat and has a hole in the center? 303: Mm. Uh. It ain't a cake but I can't call it. Interviewer: Ever hear of donuts? 303: Donuts yeah donut. You can eat a many of them. Interviewer: What about something that you might make of a batter often? Cook from oh five three or four of these at a time. Then eat it for breakfast with syrup and butter on it, 303: That's what you call flap uh uh batter cakes. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Any other names? 303: That's all I know. Interviewer: You start to say fla-? 303: Flap {X} Interviewer: #1 Flapjacks? # 303: #2 Some of 'em call 'em flap # flapjacks. {NW} That's a new thing b- back yonder I said it right. I ordered on our me- Flitter cake. That's that's old-fashioned. Interviewer: #1 Flitter? # 303: #2 Flitter # Flitter cakes for breakfast. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: With maple syrup. Interviewer: Yeah. Okay say. You you go to the store to buy some flour. And you might get a sack of flour and about how much flour would be in a in that 303: #1 Sack. # Interviewer: #2 bag? # 303: {X} For the little oh the old way is a twenty-four pound and a sack of flour or either fifty pounds. {X} Back yonder that's the way they brought it but now you can get it five pound ten pound or just more plenty size you want. Interviewer: Uh-huh. So you say that that sack contains maybe five- 303: Five pound. Interviewer: Okay. Um. What do you call the inside part of an egg? 303: {NW} Uh. It ain't the outside's called a yolk. But I forgot Interviewer: What color is the yolk? 303: The yolk's white. And the yellow is the center of the egg. Interviewer: Uh-huh. It's yellow. 303: #1 Couldn't bu- # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm # 303: break bust it and then. If you want fried eggs that's when you fry 'em {D: take 'em} Then if you want boiled egg put 'em in water and boil 'em hard or soft. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Then they uh {D: sat 'em} mustard anything you wanna eat 'em with. Interviewer: What if you crack 'em and let 'em fall out of the shells into hot water? 303: That's called poached. Porsh- tos- poached egg. You call it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. What about a kind of meat that you might boil with greens? 303: Hog jaw. Interviewer: Okay what about if it has no lean on it at all? 303: Has no meat on it? Interviewer: No lean. 303: No lean. Interviewer: Yeah it's just all fat. 303: You call it fat. Interviewer: You call it what? 303: I'd call it fat if it didn't have no lean on it. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} Um. What if it had just um some lean going through it. 303: Well you call that s- straights of lean. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 303: Straights. Interviewer: What about that you ever hear of white white meat or {D: sight} or fatback or? 303: N- no. You got me puzzled. Interviewer: When you cut the side of the hog what do you call that? 303: Cut inside. Interviewer: You'd cut the side 303: #1 Oh uh. # Interviewer: #2 of the hog. # 303: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # 303: You call that a- You mean after it's been cut out? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: You'd call it a s- cut out the side of it. Oh Interviewer: Mm-kay. What do you call the kind of meat that you buy sliced thin to eat with eggs? 303: Uh. Bacon. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And what do you call the edge of the bacon that you cut off? 303: The brine rind. Interviewer: The what? 303: The rind. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And um. Say you take the trimmings and you slice 'em up and grind 'em. Season 'em. Um. What do you call that? 303: {D: Saucer.} Interviewer: Okay. And what do you call the person who sells meat? 303: Sells meat. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: That's uh the store. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. But 303: Or the produce house. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What about the man that that kills the- 303: The hog? Interviewer: Yeah. 303: {NW} Called him I can't call it now. Interviewer: What about bu- 303: Huh? The butcher. Interviewer: Okay. 303: The butcher yeah. Interviewer: Okay if the meat's been kept too long you say that then it's doesn't taste good anymore you'd say that the meat has? 303: Has gotten got old. Interviewer: Okay. Um. or another word for that? The meat has? 303: Uh it it's sw- uh dry. Interviewer: Okay what about spoiled or spiled? 303: Spoiled meat. Can't eat it. It's It's done it. Got too warm or something way another. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay after you butcher a hog what do you do with the meat? Make with the meat from his head? 303: Well uh. After you butcher the meat And he's cut up and put it in the smokehouse on the flat table or the flat bench. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Til that's put a little salt on him then you trim it and after you trim it you you're going in and rub some more salt on it. And pack it down in a box. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: For bacon. And you put a hundred pounds of salt on it sometimes and sometimes more. Interviewer: Okay. Is there anything do you use the head to make anything? 303: Use what? Interviewer: The meat from the hog's head. 303: Oh it makes sauce out of it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 303: Good sauce. Interviewer: What about the um the liver. Anything made by cooking and grinding up the liver? 303: Yeah you make liver sausage. out of the liver if you want. If you like it. Interviewer: How do you make that? 303: You boil the liver. And you grind it you put sage in it you put pepper in it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Black pepper. And uh. It eats mighty good people that do it. Interviewer: Okay is there anything that has the hog's blood? 303: Uh jelly. Interviewer: What's that? 303: Jelly. Interviewer: Made out of the blood? 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: How how do you make that? 303: Well I don't know exactly how you make it but they take it and it's just like making gelatin you've seen gelatin you know know. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: A fruit gelatin. It's jelly but fix it up. And then it jellies. Then they- put uh this here spice. And then you kinda flavor they want in it. Then they freeze it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Set it in just like you making gelatin. And uh Whenever it got cold why then it you slice it out and eat it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. This is from the blood now? 303: That's right. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. They just catch it when 303: You catch it and uh when they catch it they gotta place {X} pure blood in it ain't no trash or nothing in it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: That's that takes that to make anything clean and good with what it is. Interviewer: They call this jelly or blood jelly or? 303: They call it jelly. Blood jelly. Or {NW} Some people just loves it. That flavor they give to it and all. When they get through with it you wouldn't think it's no blood. You wouldn't think the blood something of that character could be made out of it I wouldn't when I was a child. I wouldn't think l- blood wasn't good for nothing. Interviewer: Yeah. 303: You got to keep 'em you gots to be sharp now and know how it's done. Interviewer: Huh. Okay did you ever take take the juice from the liver sausage and stir it up with corn meal and maybe some hog meat. Then cook that? And then when it gets cold slice it and fry it? Do you ever hear of that? 303: No. No. Interviewer: Okay um suppose you cook butter too long and it didn't taste right. You'd say that the butter was? 303: Was molded or done got too strong. Interviewer: Mm-kay. {NS} Um. What do you call thick sour milk that you keep on hand? 303: Uh. We call it sour milk. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. It's not been hadn't been churned yet so it's not buttermilk 303: Oh it's clabber milk. Interviewer: Okay 303: Right there. Interviewer: What kind of cheese do you make from that? 303: Cheddar cheese. Interviewer: And that's clabber? 303: No well I don't know how they do it but I been told. I he- it's got to be clabber. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: To make it. It's cheddar cheese it's the other kinds. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Hoop cheese. And uh horse whole lotta people lov- love love the thicks in there but I don't care so much about it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What's the first thing you do after milking? 303: You clean your barn up or either take your milk to the house and put it in the container. Wash your bucket out and hang it up in the sun and let it stay dry. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What do you do to get the trash out of the milk? You have to- 303: Uh strain it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay- 303: Go through a strainer. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay this is something that's kind of like a fruit pie. It's baked in a deep dish and lay you you might make it out of apples say. And you put a layer of this dough in. 303: #1 You call that- # Interviewer: #2 And you put- # 303: You call that a apple cobbler. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And somebody has a real good apple type you'd say he sure likes to put away his? 303: Food. Interviewer: Okay. Do you ever use the word vittles? 303: Huh? Interviewer: You ever use the word vittles? 303: Vittles yes I- vittle Interviewer: That what does that mean? 303: Hmm? Interviewer: Vittles. 303: That means. That you fixed up your uh stuff after the people has got through eating. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Hmm. You put 'em aw- wa- way. And you call them over {X} my vittles and- throw out the g- dog's fat. You clean up your dishes. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay um. You might take some milk or cream mix that with some sugar and nutmeg say And then pour that over a pie. 303: You'd call that {D: Creamer} top of the pie. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: That's what I think it's called. Interviewer: Okay um. What about a sweet liquid that you might pour over pudding? 303: That's chocolate. Interviewer: Uh-huh. You call it a chocolate what? 303: Chocolate uh pudding Interviewer: Okay um. Food taken between regular meals you'd call that a? 303: Food taken between the what? Interviewer: Regular meals. Say you've already eaten dinner 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: But then you go in and you fix yourself a? 303: Snack. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And um You say this morning I what breakfast at seven o'clock? 303: I got up and got my breakfast. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Uh or I I what breakfast? {NW} 303: What'd I have for breakfast? Interviewer: Yeah. Um yeah. 303: Eggs and and uh bacon. Interviewer: Uh-huh. So this morning I? 303: Had eggs and bacon. And coffee Interviewer: Okay or another word to use instead of had you'd say this? Um. You say wha- what did you eat for breakfast you say this morning I? 303: Ate eggs. Interviewer: Okay. 303: Bacon. Coffee. Interviewer: Okay um. And you say yesterday about seven o'clock I had already? What breakfast? 303: I had eaten the same thing. Interviewer: Okay. And you say tomorrow I will 303: Change it up. Interviewer: And. What something else 303: #1 Eat # Interviewer: #2 I'm gonna # 303: Eat something else. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Say if you were real thirsty you might go up to the sink and pour yourself a? 303: Glass of water. Interviewer: Okay. And you might say that glass fell off the sink and? 303: Broke. Interviewer: Okay. You might s- and so you say that somebody has what that glass somebody has? 303: Somebody's broke that glass. Interviewer: Okay. Now you might say but I didn't mean to? 303: I didn't mean to. Interviewer: To what? {X} To? 303: To break it. Interviewer: Okay. Um. if I ask you How much water did you drink you might say I What a lot of water? 303: I drank three glasses of water. Interviewer: Okay. Maybe might ask me how much have you? 303: How much did you drink? Interviewer: Okay. 303: {NW} Interviewer: And um. You say we certainly have what a lot of water? We sure have? 303: Hav- we sure have had a lot of water. Interviewer: Or we sure have what a lot of water? 303: We sure have dranked a lot of water. Interviewer: Okay. If dinner was on the table. And the family was standing around waiting to begin what might you say to them? 303: I'd say y'all wash and get ready for dinner. Interviewer: Okay. Or if they're standing around the table you might tell them oh just go ahead 303: And sit down. Interviewer: Okay. So you say so then they they went ahead and? 303: Eat. Interviewer: Or they went ahead and what down? 303: And sit down. Interviewer: Okay. You say um. Nobody else was standing because they'd all? 303: Sit down. Interviewer: Okay. If you want somebody not to wait until the potatoes were passed you'd tell the person just go ahead and 303: Take out. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Or another way of saying that just go ahead and? What yourself? Just go 303: #1 He- help # Interviewer: #2 ahead and- # 303: yourselfs. Interviewer: Okay. So you say so he went ahead and what hisself? 303: Helped hisself. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And you say I ask him to pass it over to be then since he had already? What himself? 303: He had already taken it out. Interviewer: Or he'd already what hisself he'd already? 303: Helped hisself. Interviewer: Okay. Someone offers you something that you don't want. You might say no thank you I don't? 303: I don't want it or I don't need it I can't do nothing with it. Interviewer: Okay. But talking about food. 303: Oh. Well I's would say thank you. I wouldn't choose. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And if food's been cooked and served a second time you say that it's been? 303: Warmed over. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You put food in your mouth and then you begin to? 303: To eat it. Interviewer: Okay or with your teeth you begin to? 303: Uh. Uh pull it in there- Interviewer: Yeah or just see you put food in your mouth then you begin to? 303: Chew it. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And um. What do you call carrots and peas and beets and so forth you call that? Call those? 303: I'd call that vegetable. Interviewer: Okay. Would you have a different name depending on whether you grew it yourself or whether you bought it? 303: No. Interviewer: Okay what're where would you grow it? You'd call that place a? 303: A garden. Interviewer: Okay. Um. This is a a food they have in the South a lot. It's made of it's white and it's made up of ground up corn. And you might have it for breakfast. 303: You call that corn beef or corn uh I can't call it. Interviewer: What about gri-? 303: Corn grit. Interviewer: Huh? 303: Corn grit. Grits. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what about something that you take ashes and and um get that lye you know. And take some corn and make? 303: Make hominy. Interviewer: Okay. This is a something that um is made from a grain. And yo- you take it and and boil it. And it's white. 303: Uh I know what they call that I think but I can't recall it. {D: grena-} gr- gr- let's see. {NW} I just can't call it I know what it is Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 303: #2 I- # I've eaten I've eat that stuff. Interviewer: I'm thinking of something that- 303: Put sugar and butter in it. Interviewer: Uh-huh starts with an R? 303: Huh? Interviewer: Starts with an R? #1 People in- # 303: #2 Mm? # Interviewer: in China and Japan eat it a lot? 303: No I can't can't reach it. Interviewer: I'm thinking of ri- rice or? 303: Rice. Rice. Uh. Rice. Interviewer: Did you ever have that? 303: Uh rice? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Yes ma'am. Interviewer: How wo- how would you make that? 303: Well. You put it on and boil it 'til it's done. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Then you. So when it gets done you let it stay there and still hot and put your butter and sugar in it. Stir it up. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Then you Pour it out in a white bowl and put it out on the table. There's plenty of butter in the {X} this rice and it's mighty good. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What's that called again? 303: Uh. I forgot what they what they call that. Rice. They don't call it a rice pudding. It's. I can't call it. Interviewer: Okay. Um. What're some names for whiskey or beer? That's that's made at at home? Not 303: That's w- wildcat. Interviewer: Wildcat? 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Okay any other names? 303: This. Is uh. Another name but I can't think of it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about um beer? 303: Beer is made distill it. It's cold. And. I don't know what it's made of. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What do they call it when it's it's made at- 303: They call it the mash when they make it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. A mash is something that's used to make it beer or? 303: Uh whiskey. Either one. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. If someone was cooking and made a good impression on your nostrils you'd tell someone just? 303: {NW} Interviewer: that 303: Smelling mighty good. Must be something awful good. Interviewer: Okay and you'd ask someone just? {NW} that? Would you just s- that. 303: Uh I say oh that's makes me hungry. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. You'd crush the cane and boil the juice and make? 303: Makes solid molasses I suppose. Interviewer: Okay. Um. What else? 303: Uh it makes syrup. Or sugar. Interviewer: What's what's the difference between syrup and molasses? Might say that molasses 303: Molasses is made with uh oh ain't change made with the whole syrup it comes out of a can. And nothing mixed with it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: You call that {X} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Then it you made it all of this sugar and maple well you'd you'd call that syrup. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay um. You say This is an imitation maple syrup. This is gen- 303: Genuine Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 303: #2 syrup. # Interviewer: Okay. And when sugar water was pretty packaged when it was right out of the barrel. You say that it was sold? 303: Sold Sold by the pound. Interviewer: Okay. Or sold in? In b- 303: In uh. They they put it in the s- little sacks. Interviewer: Would you say sold in bulk or bulk or? {C: pronunciation} 303: Huh? Interviewer: Say it's sugar was sold in bu- 303: Uh. Now that's little unusual for me. {X} Interviewer: You'd say in bulk or in bulk or? {C: pronunciation} 303: {D: Bowl} Interviewer: Di- yo- talk about selling sugar loose? 303: Yeah. Uh you'd call it a in in a sack. A paper sack or in te- container. Interviewer: In a what? 303: In a container. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And. Sold by the pound put in there. {NW} You call 'em a {D: hogshead} I mean uh Where they keep it at the and they call it the barrel. Interviewer: Okay. 303: And or comes out of the hogs I don't know wh- what that is. That's where they keep it at stow 'em away. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Brown sugar. White sugar and black sugar. Interviewer: Black sugar? 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: What's that like? 303: That's uh. Sugar made up sort of like brown sugar. But it's nothing. It's hard. And lumps. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And it's It's it's it's awful black. Dark. When you put water in it you want somes use it for uh making cake flatter cake. Or- Interviewer: #1 Making what cake? # 303: #2 {X} # {D: Flatter cakes.} Why y- either put it on the stove and put water in it and melt it down as thick as you want it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 303: Then when it gets about where you want it just pour it out in a bowl. And you put a spoon in there and little water {D: That one's for breakfast}. Why Everything getting that what they want. And they play then get to buy the cake and put in it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Go on about their business. I like that too. Interviewer: Mm-kay um. What would you call a sweet spread made out of 303: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {D: savory} # 303: corn light bread. Interviewer: Wh- corn light bread? 303: Corn light bread. Interviewer: What's how do you make that? 303: You make it out of Interviewer: Some little little yeast Mm-hmm. 303: Salt a little pinch of salt. And you can't make it right now it takes you three days to make. Every year if it ain't hot enough you set it out in the sun. And let it rise. And uh when it rise then you take 'em and work it again. Then put it back and let it rise again. A second time. Then the second time then you take it back in the house or put it in a container and rework it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And put it put 'em up for the same things for all that to put it to make it thick enough. To when {D: stain it} when it rise up it'll be puffy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And and if it don't fall Well that's what you want it to puff it when it gets done it stand right where it where it rested. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And that's what you call a corn light bread. Good stuff too. Interviewer: Mm. And what would you make of apples or something you might make apple butter or you might make apple- 303: Apple cider. Interviewer: Okay. What about something that you put on biscuits? 303: Butter. Or. Anything you sh- should wish on it. Interviewer: What about something kinda like jam? 303: Uh jam or jelly. Interviewer: Okay. And what do you have on a table to season your food with? You might have some? 303: Salt. Pepper. Interviewer: Okay. Now suppose there was a bowl of apples somewhere. And a child wanted one. You would tell him you would say give? 303: Uh give me a apple. Interviewer: Okay. And you say it wasn't these boys that did that it must've been one of? 303: The other boy. Interviewer: Okay. Or you point to a group. You know. 303: Um. Interviewer: And you say. What one these boys it was? 303: It was that boy there in the middle. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And you say um. Say he he didn't live here he lives and then he points and what did he say he lives? 303: He lives. Down the other way {D: mark down or whatever you} Down. He pointed out. Interviewer: Okay would you say he lives. Over. Over yonder or? 303: Over yonder. #1 O- o- o- # Interviewer: #2 Back yonder? # 303: Over yonder on the other side. Of the road. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Okay. Interviewer: You might tell someone no don't do it that way do it. 303: Do it thisaway. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You say. If you don't have any money at all. You say that you're? 303: Broke. Interviewer: Or You're not rich you're? 303: I'm not rich. I haven't haven't got haven't no I have no money. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. You'd say. If you're not rich? 303: You're poor. Interviewer: Okay. You say um. Someone who's rich having the easy life but life is hard on a man? 303: Hadn't got his clothes left on the man Interviewer: Uh-huh you say um. Um. If you're if you're poor things are kind of hard. For you. You say life is hard on a man. 303: Mm. Life is hard when I've got nothing. No {D: backers} to help none. Interviewer: Yeah. Um. Say if if you have a lot of peach trees you say he he has peach? 303: Orchard. Interviewer: Okay. And you might ask somebody if that's his orchard. And he'd tell you no I'm just a neighbor. 303: Mm. Interviewer: And he points to somebody else and he says there's the man 303: That owns the peach orchard. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You say when when I was a child my father was poor. But next door was a child? 303: His they were poor too. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay um. They're talking not about the child but about his father. 303: #1 {D: Father} # Interviewer: #2 Say # When I was a child my father was poor. 303: Yeah. Interviewer: But next door was a child. 303: He was poor. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay um. You said. My mother's not a nurse but I have a friend? 303: Is a nurse. Interviewer: Okay. Or not my friend is a nurse I'm talking about my friend's mother. 303: Mm. Interviewer: You say my mother's not a nurse but I have a friend? 303: Is it is a nurse. Interviewer: Okay. Um. The inside of a cherry the part that you don't eat. 303: Inside of what? Interviewer: A cherry. 303: That's the seed. Interviewer: Okay. What about a peach? 303: The seed. Interviewer: Mm-kay. What about a kind of peach that the s- the seed is 303: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 the- # Huh? 303: Purple? Interviewer: Okay wh- the kind that the seed is real tight against the flesh is real tight against the seed. 303: That's uh plum peach. Interviewer: Okay. What about the other kind? 303: Freestone. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what do you call the part of the apple that you don't eat? 303: Core. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And when you cut out the apples and dry them you say you're making? 303: Fixing. To dry some apples. To make a pie. Interviewer: Mm-kay um. What kind of nuts do you pull up out of the ground and roast? 303: What kind of what? Interviewer: Nuts. 303: That's peanuts. Interviewer: Okay any other name for them? 303: Goobers. Interviewer: What's that? 303: Goobers. Interviewer: Okay. Um. What nuts do you have growing on trees around here? 303: That's uh. chickpea and hog acorn Interviewer: And hog what? 303: Hog acorn. {X} Interviewer: It's hog 303: #1 Yeah that- # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 303: That's what you call a hog acorn. Chinquapin A little round. Thing with hull on 'em. Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 303: #2 That's- # right slick. {X} Or. Maybe they don't have a little hog on 'em but when they fall. They fall {D: over here} hogs eat them. And eats acorns. They're flat and got a top on 'em. Just like a basket. {D: fix it} When they fall Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: The top comes off again and that's what you call a hog acorn acorn. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Hogs live on that. Grow on 'em. Or the plenty of live off. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What about the kind that um. It'll stain your hand. 303: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Uh-huh. 303: {D: one of us} White one. And black one. The white one stain your hand it's a same as a the black one so we have to fool with 'em When they taking the top off of it. Off. Interviewer: What do you call 303: #1 If they're- # Interviewer: #2 that? # 303: green if they're dry they don't bother us. Interviewer: What do you call that top that you take off? 303: That's a hub. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Then you still have another {X} on the on it don't you? 303: That's wha- the {D: walnut} to uh {D: walnut hub} Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: They call that a {D: hickory cub} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay this is another kind of nut. That grows down south. You might have it around Christmas. 303: That's what you call a a I know the name but I can't call it. Interviewer: What about starts with a P. 303: Uh? Interviewer: What about starts with a P. 303: P. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Peanut. Interviewer: Okay what about pec- pecans or- 303: #1 Pecans. # Interviewer: #2 pecans? {C: pronunciation} # 303: And uh There's another nut I forgot what they call it chinquapin. Interviewer: Mm-hmm do you eat those? 303: Yes ma'am. When you can get 'em they're mighty scarce. Cost about tw- two dollars a pound. If you get 'em now. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Used to get to pick 'em up mm all you want on on these hills. Back down this other way. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Go out there and pick up all you wanted in the fall of the year. And you're gonna pick 'em up uh fall of the year and they've got a hull on 'em. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And they stick you it's like a sticking weed. Stinging weed. And um. You gonna have to wait 'til they fall to get 'em. Interviewer: What kind of tree do they grow on? 303: Chinquapin Oh not a chinquapin but uh chestnut tree. Interviewer: #1 That's- # 303: #2 Get # {D: you go on there} A big it's got a big thick bark on it. Sort of like bark on it look sort of like the bark on a oak tree. On. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Thick bark. Channels. Stripes runs up and down. Interviewer: Okay what about this kind of nut that's flat and sort of shaped like a person's eye? 303: Nah let's see uh. I can't can't get you on that. I can't can't. Interviewer: You ever heard of almonds or almonds? {C: pronunciation} 303: Almonds. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Or al- almonds. Interviewer: You you heard of those? 303: Yeah I've heard of 'em but I've never seen 'em. Interviewer: What what did you hear it called? {NS} Uh. 303: I can't exactly tell you what. I know it but I just can't get together. It's called. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay this is a kind of fruit. It grows down in Florida. 303: Eh what kind of fruit? Interviewer: It's a kind of fruit that grows in Florida. 303: Uh I couldn't tell you that's getting too hard out of my reach. Interviewer: What's 303: #1 {D: you got} # Interviewer: #2 Oh yes # 303: oranges. Interviewer: Okay. 303: Yes that's right. Interviewer: Okay supposed you had a bowl of these. Standing somewhere and you went in to get one one day. And there weren't any left you'd say the oranges are? 303: Uh. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 303: #2 Gone. # Or rotten. Interviewer: Okay or all? 303: All gone. Interviewer: Okay. This is a little red vegetable that you might grow in your garden. It's a little root vegetable. 303: Mm. {NS} Um. {NS} That's. that's it's uh.