Family Recipe Friday - Grandma's Iced Tea

Is there anything more refreshing on a hot summer day than a glass of sweet tea filled with ice?

Grandma's sweet tea was made in a precise manner:

Draw fresh water from the spring [don't use any water that's been sitting out overnight!]

Bring a gallon of water to a boil. [Yes, the entire gallon!] As it comes to a full boil, remove from heat [she used a wood stove!], and immediately add 18 tea bags. Yes, 18!!!

Add 2 cups of ganulated sugar. Yes, two! Stir to allow the sugar to dissolve.

Cover the pot and allow to steep with tea bags for a full 20-30 minutes.

When steeping is complete, remove cover from pot, pour tea into a one gallon glass jar [with  lid available!]. From this you can pour the tea into your glass filled with ice.

Now this is not complete until you grab a chunk of left over cornbread, and sit on the porch swing an enjoy the two together!

Now THAT is a summertime treat you just can't get in no big city! And a pleasure you can't get from candy bars, bags of chips or soda pops!!!

Grandma Bean and I used to sit on the porch and enjoy this every summer! What a wonderful memory I have of that special time together!!!

Treasure Chest Thursday - Faudree's Photos

While this isn't the clearest of snapshots, I have scanned these for better clarity, but wanted to give you an idea of what the originals actually looked like.

These tiny little portraits are a pair that my Grandma Bean kept tucked away in a small leather photo folder. Always kept in her undies drawer, and sedom brought out for us to see, these were my Grandma Bean's parents. The portraits were done about the turn of the century, hen my Grandma was about 3 years of age.

One the left is Elizabeth Carnefix FAUDREE [1861-1929] and on the right i Stephen Ledford FAUDREE [1857-1929]. [The couple died within 6 months of each other.] They had 10 children, my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth, being their eighth-born child.

Elizabeth's portrait is about the size of a quarter, while Stephen's almost as big as a half-dollar coin. Grandma treasured these tiny portraits. And as the one who keeps them now, I do as well. While I never knew either, I feel their presence with me often. And I know Grandma is looking on with pride.

Wordless - Josephine and Grandchildren

Please click on the photo to view it more clearly.

Tombstone Tuesday - Wilhelmina Benzel

WILHELMINE

WIFE OF

JOHN BENZEL

BORN
MAY 25, 1835

MAR. 7, 1924

 Wilhelmine Lambrecht BENZEL was also more commonly known as "Minnie". Her parentage is unknown to us. We do know she arrived in this country with her husband John BENZEL and three of their children in May of 1864, and both came from Germany.

Minnie and John had eight known children: Amelia, Matilda, Josephine, August, Wilhelmine, Louie, John and William.

John died 18 Jan 1899 in Bedford, Indiana. Wilhelmine lived until 07 March 1924. The couple are buried at Green Hill Cemetery in Bedford. It is said that the family were well reknown stone masons, and that John and Minnie's gravesones were made by their sons.

Amanuensis Monday - Josephine Benzel Dreher

The above is a copy of Josephine Benzel Dreher's death certificate.

You will note it is for Jefferson County, Kentucky. The certificate number is 29150.

Her name is listed as "Josie Dreher". Her address as 2322 N. Western Pkwy., which was located in Louisville.

Josie is listed as a Widow. Her birthdate as 21 July 1865.

Her date of death was 12 Dec 1932. The cause of death is listed as "Cancer. Pancreas"

She had been under this doctor's care from Oct. 1932 until her date of death.

Her place of birth is listed as Bedford, Indiana.

Her father as John Benzel, born in Germany. Her mother as Minnie Langbriet, also born in Germany.

The informant for all of the information was Florence Collins [who we know was Josie's daughter] and the address is the same as Josie's above on the certificate.

She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery on 14 Dec 1932. The Undertaker is listed as Schoppenhorst Brothers, in Louisville.

The death certificate is signed by Dr. J.W. BELTON. And it was filed on 14 Dec 1932.

Josephine Benzel Dreher was my great-grandmother. Her son Henry Condar Dreher, Jr. was my grandfather. His daughter, Lois Velleda Dreher, my mother.

Wordless Wednesday - Audrey Beane Harriff

Audrey Beane Harriff [1912 - 2002] on a camel before the Treasury At Petra March 1989.

Tombstone Tuesday - Baldwin Crosier Long

BALDWIN CROSIER LONG

WEST VIRGINIA
MM3    USNR

WORLD WAR II

DEC 1, 1913          AUG 3, 1963

The son of Overton Begis LONG and Sarah Rebecca Viola CROSIER, Baldwin married Carrie Maude HUDSON on 28 Oct 1935 in Sinks Grove, Monroe County, West Virginia.

He is buried at...

...Green Hill Cemetery

Union, Monroe, West Virginia