Sunday, November 8, 1936

Cloudy & thaws
Charles brought over groceries and took 20 qt can back and brought it full of water to drink-
I dusted through both living rooms this forenoon-
Took my bath this afternoon-

Saturday, November 7, 1936

Cloudy & hazy & thaws
Made apple pie and two extra shells-
cooked and canned Aunty's green tomato and cabbage chow chow*-
Mopped the kitchen, swept my bedroom
fixed the electric light over well-
Rec'd nice letter from Iliff-
Chas. stopped for our grocery kist
Loaned Aunty $5.00 bill-
Mother good all day-



*& didn't a bunch of recipes practically jump off the Google page? LOL. Here is one to try. Granny's Chow-Chow by Joyce Bacon & found on the Southern Plate website.

Ingredients (For the rest of the recipe, follow the link above.)

• 12 medium onions (4 cups)
• 1 medium head of cabbage (4 cups)
• 10 green tomatoes (4 cups)
• 12 green bell peppers
• 6 sweet red bell peppers
• ½ cup coarse salt
• 6 cups granulated sugar
• 2 T mustard seed
• 1 T celery seed
• 1 ½ tsp. turmeric
• 4 cups white vinegar
• 2 cups water

 
 

Saturday, October 3, 1936

plesant & cool
Harry & I went to town and cashed the checks and got groceries, fruit, & vegtables
was back at 1-30 and got our dinner-
Elnora Evans came and brought us butter-
Aunty has been sore & cross today-
Mother has been good-

Thursday, July 23, 1936

plesant & warm with a real shower all evening
Aunty and I have tried to work but had interuptions all day-
Bardo grocery, the meat cart and Charles came after a bag of wheat and the truck driver came for hay and I had to take tallys for Leroy-
I gathered string beans for dinner and cleaned doors in Mothers room
*Aunty Rec'd letter from Clara.



*This sentence runs vertically up the left hand side of the diary entry.