Word: stirrin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memories take me back to a big basement kitchen in a New Jersey farm house where the preliminaries took place that preceded the next-day's stirrin'. Down in one corner of the orchard was a group of apple trees known as "Yellow-Sweets." These were par-excellent for making sweet-cider and indispensable for making apple butter. The day before, a big load of cull apples went to the cider press and a dozen bags of the finest, to the basement for the grand apple peelin...
...mighty fine o' yer ter let yer readers know about our "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose Of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories Of Apple Butter Stirrin Days." And th' former apple butter stirrers thet's rote in 're mighty grateful...
Some o' 'em 're still stirrin apple butter. But most o' us ain't done no stirrin since Aunt Tillie cought Uncle Jake sneakin in fer a second look at Little Egypt at th' Chicago World's Fair BSR (Before Sally Rand...
...still got our old copper kittle an she's 30 gallons if she's a spoon-full. Gittin bout time to bring her out now and bout the time this gets to you we'll be stirrin ourselves to stir up our supply of the best so of fillin that God ever invented with fresh bread. Hopin youre the same...
...aint much of a hand ter join no organizashuns, not even the kind that keeps alive memories of stirrin apple butter, butcherin and all them chores we used to do down on the farm in Indiany. The old purplish-brown apple butter used to come thru them hole in the paddle like somethin it aint so pleasant to think about, but just the same that ain a bad idea of yours. If they has organizashuns for folks that used to pump pipe organs, why not ? But don't you think then orter be a requirement that...