Yes, batter and white bread.

10.  Do you remember evaporating sea water to get salt?

[TR:  word illegible] did hit dat way.

11.  When you were a child, what sort of stove do you remember your mother having?  Did they have a hanging pot in the fire place, and did they make their candles of their own tallow?

Always had fireplaces or open fires on the plantation, but after a long time while my massy had hearth stoves to cook on.  De would give us slaves pot liquor to cook green in sometimes.  Dey lit de fires with flint and steel, when it would go out.  We all ate with wooden paddles for spoons.  We made dem taller candles out of beef and mutton tallow, den we’d shoog ’em down into the candle sticks made of tin pans wid a handle on and a holder for the candle in the center.  You know how.

12.  Did you use an open well or pump to get the water?

We had a well with two buckets on a pulley to draw the water.

13.  Do you remember when you first saw ice in regular form?

No.  Ice would freeze in winter in our place.

14.  Did your family work in the rice fields or in the cotton on the farm, or what sort of work did they do?

They did all kinds of work in the fields.

15.  If they worked in the house or about the place, what sort of work did they do?

I was house maid and did everything they told me to do.  Sometimes I’d sweep and work around all the time.

16.  Do you remember ever helping tan and cure hides and pig hides?

This was done on the plantation.  I took no part in it.

17.  As a young person what sort of work did you do?  If you helped your mother around the house or cut firewood or swept the yard, say so.

I helped do the housework and did what the mistress told me do.

18.  When you were a child do you remember how people wove cloth, or spun thread, or picked out cotton seed, or weighed cotton or what sort of bag was used on the cotton bales?

No.

19.  Do you remember what sort of soap they used?  How did they get the lye for making the soap?

Yes, I’d help to make the ash lye and soft soap.  Never seed and cake soap until I came here.

20.  What did they use for dyeing thread and cloth and how did they dye them?

They used indigo for blue, copperas for yellow, and red oak chips for red.

21.  Did your mother use big, wooden washtubs with cut-out holes on each side for the fingers?

Yes, and dey had smaller wooden keels.  Never seed any tin tubs up there.

22.  Do you remember the way they made shoes by hand in the country?

Yes, they made all our shoes on the plantation.

23.  Do you remember saving the chicken feathers and goose feathers always for your featherbeds?

Yes.

23.  Do you remember when women wore hoop [TR:  illegible] in their skirts and when they stopped wearing them and wore narrow skirts?