Grover Sr
Yep, my Grandmother cooked on a wood
Saturday, November 26, 2022, 07:41

Stove up until 1961. Actually had an icebox and had 50 lb blocks delivered once a week to put in it. I remember stacking wood cut with a crosscut saw or axe (no chainsaw), split with a maul and wedges. The rule of thumb was for cooking and heating we needed enough wood cut by May that would fill the house floor to ceiling. Luckily it was just a two room shotgun house maybe 800sq feet total.including the porches. About once a week during the summer us kids would spend a day walking the railroad tracks with tow sacks picking up coal that fell off coal cars from the coal mines. Our reward would always be a blackberry cobbler cooked in a big Dutch oven in that wood stove, the coal was used in the potbellied stove at night during the winter because Granny thought it burned slower and longer than wood. It’s kind of funny that we did not see any of that as any kind of hardship at the time. No electricity until 1961 and no indoor plumbing until ‘62. I read many a book by coal oil light.