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Old July 4th 19, 05:13 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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Default AG: My first batch of switchel

On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:03:59 +0700, John B.
wrote:

But I also remember that in later years she had a kerosene stove on
the back porch for summer.


Grandma had a kerosene stove in their summer cabin; I didn't notice
what she had in the house, but I think it was gas. At least she had a
toaster that sat over the flame, and I don't think one would do that
with kerosene. I don't remember seeing gas bottles outside, but I
wouldn't have thought gas bottles worth noticing.

Dad said that his home place had a "summer kitchen" that was in an
entirely-separate building.

Our neighbor had two stoves in her kitchen; in hindsight, I'm pretty
sure one was a range and the other was for summer use.

Mom cooked on "the old Anderson", a gas stove. Must have bought it
right after the war; the kitchen at the Scircleville place was built
around it. Or it could have been a vestige of the old kitchen that
she kept when we got electricity and running water; she liked that
stove so much that she moved it to the Colfax place after Dad retired.
I don't remember that the deep well ever worked, but oh, that
brick-lined oven! And it had a separate broiler you didn't have to
bend over, which also heated a griddle.

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