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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some of the drug conditions during the war between the States, 1861-5. (search)
a friend that the persimmon beer made in Orangeburg Dist., S. C., by Hon. J. M. Felder, equalled the best sparkling Jersey champagne, or carbonated cider. The old Southern song ran: Christmas comes but once a year, eggnog and 'simmon beer. It was customary to mash the fruit, strain through a coarse sieve, knead with wheat bran, and bake in an oven. This persimmon bread could be put away for winter use in making beer when wanted. A correspondent in the Charleston Mercury wrote from Waresboro, Ga.: You speak of black moss for mattresses. Our common palmetto leaves, split into shreds with fork and hackle, boiled, dried in the the sun a few days, make a light, clean, healthy and durable mattress. Let me suggest that palmetto pillows would be light and comfortable for our soldiers on the coast. Their corn and flour sacks, in the absence of anything better, furnish readymade pillow ticks. Our negroes are busily employed making light, durable and handsome palmetto hats for our sol