Growing up in south Rich'mun, depending on the humidity, cloud cover, and wind, some days we could smell the cookies baking from the FFV plant way across the river; at other times you could smell the tobacco in the tobacco warehouses down on Semmes Ave. It was a nice smell, I guess tobacco smells nice until you light it. Since we were only a few blocks from the river, a few times when the river was very low there was the unfortunate smell of a dirty aquarium, that blue- green algae smell, I guess. Peanuts baking in the oven, Daddy's fried egg and onion sandwiches coming up thru the floor- my bedroom was above the kitchen and he worked shift work at VEPCO. It always made me hungry. Friends in Varina boiling a haunch of deer meat in a big pot of water on the stove. I know a lot of people love venison, and maybe it's all in the way you cook it, but this smelled awful. Magnolias, lilacs, honeysuckle and roses in summer, and the wonderful Carolina Allspice bush next door. And in Smithfield, the hickory wood smoke in the fall. Nancy ------- Our eyes report to our minds what our minds have told them to see. --Anon. On Jan 11, 2007, at 6:57 PM, David Kiracofe wrote: > My mother always called it "poor horse" (to make fun of Daddy), but we > all ate it. > We've all been talking about the tastes of the south (and I guess > Pennsylvania and Virginia Germans--our Kiracofes came over as George > III's mercenaries, but stayed around because they found plenty of > Germans here), what about the smells?: all this talk of ham, and stew > and panhaus -- we get some pretty distinctive southern smells (don't > forget collards!). What are some other smells we associate with the > south? > > David > > > David Kiracofe > History > Tidewater Community College > Chesapeake Campus > 1428 Cedar Road > Chesapeake, Virginia 23322 > 757-822-5136 >>>> Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> 01/11/07 6:13 PM >>> > David, > > The valley was settled by the Penn Dutch folks, if I remember my > geography > well enough. In my Penn Dutch cookbook it's written as panhaus. When I > was > little, my mom used to sometimes go to the family farm and get fresh > scrapple. It wasn't in a loaf, it was just put in the pan and heated, > often > we had it with scrambled eggs. > > The local stores sell a scrapple, but it just isn't the same as back > home. > But, then what is? > > BTW, do they make Shoo Fly Pie in the valley? Do they put hard boiled > eggs > in their potato salad? Mom used to cut up the eggs in the salad, then > put > some sliced eggs on the top, topped then with paprika and nutmeg. > First > time > I added paprika and nutmeg to potato salad for my Richmond-born > husband, > he > asked if I was poisoning him! > > Anne > Anne Pemberton > [log in to unmask] > http://www.erols.com/stevepem > http://www.erols.com/apembert > http://www.educationalsynthesis.org > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html