DARE Interview : Interlachen, Florida; Primary Informant FL041

Fieldworker

Porter, Ruth

Date

• 1966

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• FL041: Black; female; age: 83 (old); education: some schooling; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0276-S1).
• Content:
• 00:10 [Blank]
• 01:50 Farm life with cane and vegetables, raising flowers, selling milk. Has special sugarcane
• 05:55 Popular donkey they had—children would play with him, was in parade twice
• 10:35 Flowers and vegetables she grew; how to raise peanuts and "peanut hay"
• 15:00 Types of peanuts, how to parch or boil them. Using a wood stove because she distrusts gas or electric
• 19:45 How to get stove going in the morning with cypress and oak. Preparing sugarcane to make syrup
• 25:00 Uses for syrup—pancakes, biscuits, sale. Baking biscuits the old way, homemade pound cake and corn bread
• 31:50 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0276-S2). [Additional speakers: Male child]
• Content:
• 00:10 Making corn bread, or frying it into hoecake. How much better life was in the past. Her experiences working as a cook
• 06:25 Different foods she likes to cook: fried and baked chicken, lamb or beef stew. Hog's head cheese and potato pone
• 11:25 Making salads or cooking berries; canning fruit and vegetables in jars. Prefers to freeze things
• 15:25 Canning pears, how to get food into jars
• 17:20 Tape end