That ol guy could do about anything. It cleaned pretty good too but it was a little harsh for the women folks. Maybe he left out an ingredient?? Course his momma was a healing (witchy) woman from up in the Mountains of Virginianna. He larned a buncha stuff from her I guess. We also made chewing terbaccy twist one time. We grew an acre of terbaccy and holy cow...we had nuff chew for the whole county. Lotta work too. An heck...I never did chew!! Tried it and it was som'at better'n Brown's Mule!!
gag!! He wanted to grow some sorghum so we could make some long sweetnin..but I knew better'n that. I saw it done a time 'er two. Lots a work. We did tap a bunch of sweet gum one time and made syrup. Weren't maple but still pretty good. We burned a lot of wood thickenin it up though. We sugar cured our own hog meat and made sausage and lard, cut up our beef critters and deer. Learned how to live with just a little stuff. Grew our own feed for the critters. Ever thing ate the same cept the hogs and they got the goats milk(one gave gallons of the worst tastin milk and the other was great) and ever thing else that was edible. When we killed a hog it weighed 400 or so. Not like the shoat meat they sell ya in the store today. Done gone fer 'nuff fer tonight
BTW for y'all that don't know..long sweetnin is molasses