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only for entertaining our minds and touching our memories, but also for giving us a renewed sense of direction."

~ Samuel Vaughn Wilson
Lieutenant General
US Army-Retired
Former President Hampden
Sydney College
Rice, Virginia

















"Joe Lively brings us a wonderful gift, a wealth of fascinating tales of our ancestors and their lives. He also teaches us a valuable lesson. In these tales of ash cakes and horseshoes and Johnny houses and mules and molasses, we come to understand that our past is alive and well inside us."
~ Dr. James William Jordan ~ Professor of Anthropology ~
1995 Virginia Professor of the Year ~ Longwood University ~ Farmville, Virginia

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all about mules and other critters ... ancient art of basket
weaving ...		 the art of black-
smithing ...		 ancient chimneys ... ancient
dreams ...		 forgotten
logging
tools ...
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woodcutting methods from yesterday ... our black heritage ... learn about grandma's tools and recipes ... old farming techniques ... raising chickens and gathering
eggs ...
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hog killing ... johnny
houses ...		 old wells and drawing
water ...		 learn grandpa's secrets for winemaking ... ash cakes and butter ...
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slave houses ... tobacco ... work horses ... the Battle of Amelia Courthouse ... relics from the Battle of Jetersville ...

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Forgotten Heritage
Joe Lively
6501 Soapstone Road Jetersville, Virginia  23083
email ... joelively@forgottenheritage.net

Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
5 tablespoons shortening
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon soda (to counter the milk acidity)
Sift the flour, salt, baking powder and soda.  Stir shortening into mixture.  Next, stir in the buttermilk until mixture becomes thick.  Then turn the moist dough out on a well-floured breadboard and knead back and forth for approximately 1 minute.  Roll the dough out to a thickness of 3/8 - 1/2 inch.  Brush surface with melted lard (Crisco) and fold over.  Then cut with a biscuit cutter.  Bake in a hot oven until the tops are just beginning to brown.  This recipe should produce about 2 dozen biscuits.

Old Fashioned
Corn Pones

3 cups finely ground corn meal
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar or 1/2 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon soda (to counter the milk acidity)
3 tablespoons lard (Crisco)
Stir all dry ingredients together, add melted lard and then stir in the buttermilk until mixture becomes a thick liquid.  Pour the mixture into molds.  Place the molds either on a hot hearth or the top of the firebox of your stove (or bake in oven).  Cook until brown.  Now you may relish the result of your diligence.  Topped with a little butter or honey and any of these delicious treats could be a breakfast fit for a king!