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Updated: May 11, 2025
The poor there eat a great deal of rice and flour boiled with buttermilk, which, besides being very nutritious, is 'matchless for the complexion, like many of the advertised soaps. The very poor have what is called a 'Vetpot. This they keep in the cellar, and in it they put every particle of fat that remains over from their meals.
Small scraps of bacon are melted down and added to it, for this fat must last them the whole winter through as an addition to their potatoes. Indeed, the 'Vetpot' plays as great a part in a poor man's house as the 'stock-pot' does in an English kitchen. The meals are cooked in a large iron pot, which hangs from a hook over the open hearth.
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