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From: "j" <>
Subject: [TNDICKSO] From Minnie's Book
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:18:41 -0500


My grandmother, Minnie Fitzhugh Dennis 1889-1947 of Stewart County, had a
"recipe book" in which are recipes as well as notes on her "egg sales"
dating from 1911 up until not long before she died. I was privileged to
examine this book last night and to copy much from it, as my aunt pulled it
out along with other family keepsakes to show to me that I might know what
she had and what the importance of some of the things she had kept were that
I might not otherwise have understood the significance of. Naturally my
grandmother's book was an easy one to see the beauty of.... I will be
sharing some things "From Minnie's Book" along with you. Tonight I share
with you a recipe for "hand lotion":

Hand Lotion
1/2 oz. gum Tragacanth (about 3 1/2 tablespoons)
2 oz. glycerine (4 tablespoons)
3 oz. Bay Rum (6 tablespoons)
1 quart rainwater
10 drops oil of lavendar if desired. Soak the gum in cold water for a day
and night. Stirring occasionally. Strain through a cheese cloth. Mix all
the other ingredients together and pour slowly into the dissolved gum
tragacanth. This makes a quart of lotion and costs about 45 cents. This
lotion may be poured into screw top bottles and is enough for the family's
use during the entire year.

jan


John 3-16
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