Category: Vintage

From Scrapple to Livermush: America’s Whole-Hog Breakfast Traditions

If you start in South Carolina and follow the scent of hog-killing weather, cast-iron wash pots, and breakfast skillets, you find that scrapple is not just one thing. It is a whole American family of thrift-born pork traditions: some bound with cornmeal, some with oats, some tucked into sausage casings, some pressed into loaves, some fried crisp, and some eaten cold and trembling with natural gelatin.

My Grandmother Elease Sarvis Lane Brasington’s recipes Box..

These are my Grandmothers Elease Sarvis Lane Brasington’s recipes, Birth 26 APR 1921, in South Carolina, Death 9/26/2009 in Horry County, her father was John Sarvis Birth 15 Jun 1883 in South Carolina, United States Death 4 Apr 1953 in buried Cane Branch Baptist Church Cemetery in Allsbrook, South Carolina, I have a “Family photo from 1900 posted” his father was Doctor J. Sarvis Birth 1863 in South Carolina Death 30 Sep 1931 in Bayboro, Horry, South Carolina, United States