Vol. 3-Interview-Timko

Colic(underlined) Used to [?] chamomile [?] brewed up in a tea for newborn babies who had a colic. Sometimes gave it to them because it was good. Sweetened with sugar. Sometimes added saraway seeds, too, because that was good for pain. They loved it, because it was sweet. The grown ups didn't take any.

(This next paragraph is crossed out) Remember when there was a girl she went to the house of George Matwak's mother, the mother [?]

Summers Her mother-in-law had a pow wow [?] in to deal with Joseph's father. But she didn't believe in him. The pow wower asked for a drink before he started. The treatment included breathing on the man, who was almosst paralyzed. It didn't help and she didn't believe in the pow wower. It seems the man had (crossed out word) a stroke or several strokes. [Joseph was [?] husband.] Her father-inlaw was [?] that way for a long time.

Folk remedy (arrow pointing up and down) Castoria was given to the kids when they had colds, this was to keep them regular. ["Keep" the bowels open] You'd give them warm milk + keep them in bed. 1 teaspoon was the dose a (day, crossed out), as needed; they used to like it beuase it was sweet.

For some throat, [ words scribbled out] you'd give them salt wafer to gargle with. But they'd choke on that. Seems the throat got better, less sore.

Remembers her mother-in-law once got a bad cough. The doctor gave her a bottle of cough medicine. But after she came home from church, She never coughed no more - the cough went away. Sometimes it works like that, that if you do something for them, it you give a remedy, you think it does good.

Mustard plaster - Used to use a lot, for her bronchal cough. Used dry mustard (depends on where you want to spread it over) dissolved in warm water + made a paste out of it. Put on a rag on the body + spread it on. Keep it there, + fold over the other part of the cloth; (drawing of a rectangle with a dotted line vertically in the middle, a line drawn to words mustard plaster on right end of rectangle, another line drawn to words cloth for chest)

Kept it between 2 cloth layers. The heat draw the cough. Must be careful that you don't get burned. Kept on for a while so it penetrated - an hour or more. The mustard combined with

The mustard helped the cough. Used it even for aches & pains, on the back & chest. Sometimes even on head for headache - placed on forehead. She learned this from people around here.

Foods Within 3 years had a 5 1/2 month strike + 5 1/2 months again, it was like 1 full year of not working. This was in the 20's. There was no income- the people had to grow food in garden + can it - "putting the stuff up." The materials to preserve it was available - vinegar, sugar, spices. Vinegar - for chow chow + pickles sugar - added to everything Ketchup added spices, Ketchup (?) For ketchup. used beer bottles + put in bought corks, for storage. Later on, used to wax them - that didn't help, The stuff used to spoil sometimes, if the seal was loose, Later, got a capping device that capped the bottles by hands. This was before the 20's. Ketchup Cook peeled tomatoes - that had been sliced or pieced, till they got soft enough to come through a seive. Then put it through a sieve + cook the mass. Add salt to taste, sugar, pepper + ( atl lined through) spices,( cloves with a line through it), Put (?) spices by put in cinnamon directly, (? lined through) but allspice + cloves, ground, in a piece of cheesecloth, twist it up +

tie it with string after twisting it up Put in to pot to cook. Cook till it was thick enough for you and liquid was boiled off. Put the ketchup in bottles boiling hot. The bottles were washed. They were kept on the stove on a dish. They were filled right over the pot on the stove. You stirred up the ketchup so the thick part on the bottom was mixed in. Then cork or cap the bottles & put away. This was done by mother of house. Stored in the outside cellar on shelves. Taught her by some of people around here