Grama's Recipes From Life
By Julie Janson
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I guess I should explain about the flour sacks that I have been telling you about, all through my fun recipes. Well, in those days, the miller always put the flour in cotton flour sacks. These sacks, sometimes, had flowers printed all over them. The sacks were used for a multitude of things. Besides all the uses in the kitchen, our mother also made underwear for her 10 kids. 
She made
bloomers, slips and even swimming suits, that we only used in our
private swimming pool that our father and brothers had blasted out
of that hard pot rock. This pool was up behind the barn, near the
orchard.We also learned to embroider on these sacks. We learned to do the outline stitch around all of those flowers that were printed on those sacks. We dried many apples and they were stored in flour sacks and hung everywhere in the kitchen. Well, all I can say is they were the most useful item that ever entered our home, there on the farm. I miss the flour sacks!! |
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