Scraps

A bed without a quilt is like a sky without stars.

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For your next guild meeting, serve '''Roly-poly Pudding '''from the 1850s:

The pastry for this favorite pudding may be made in three or four ways, according to the degree of richness required. For a superior pudding mix a pound of flour with a half pound of very finely-shred suet, freed from skin and fiber. Add a good pinch of salt, an egg, and nearly half a pint of milk.   More…

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"Pleasure and Pain, Reminiscences of Georgia in the 1840’s" by Emily Burke (1850)

(Page 89) “While I was on this plantation, the overseer’s wife made a quilting at which she invited the field slaves, both men and women. It may seem strange to my readers to hear of men being invited to a quilting, but I can say to them that among the Southern field hands, the women can hoe as well as the men and the men can sew as well as the women, and they engage in all departments of labor according to the necessity of the case without regard to sex.   More…