scaffold-drying

Updated: May 1, 2025

With fruit in gluts, and dropping fast, the kiln was supplemented by scaffolds. Clean planks laid upon trestles, and set in full sunshine, gave excellent accounts of themselves. This of course if the sun shone steadily in showery weather scaffold-drying was no end of trouble. Weather permitting, it made it still makes the finest and most flavorous dried fruit ever eaten.

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