flue-mouths

Updated: April 30, 2025

Daddy kept the temperature even, by thrusting into the flues underneath it, long sticks of green wood, kindled well at the flue-mouths. Cups shrank mightily in a little while you could push of an early trayful till it would no more than cover space the size of a big dish, long before dinner time in other words twelve o'clock drying was in full blast by seven.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South