peach-cutting

Updated: May 28, 2025

It was just as well, since clear-seed fruit, peeled, shrinks unconscionably to small scrawny knots, inclined to be sticky though it is but just to add, that in cooking, it comes back to almost its original succulence. When the peach-cutting was done, there was commonly a watermelon feast. Especially at Mammy's house Daddy's watermelons were famed throughout the county.

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

Only Johnnie Larabee, the warm-hearted little wife of the village hotel keeper, persevered and was rewarded by Shandon's bitter confidence, given while they rode up to the ridge to look up some roaming steer, perhaps, or down by the peach-cutting sheds, while Shandon supervised a hundred "hands."

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby