In a Southern woman's recollections of the American Civil War, just published in New York, a novel means of obtaining salf, resorted to in those days is described. "A common practice, she says, "on the part of people who sadly missed salt as an ingredient of their food, was to dig up the earth floors of the smoke-houses," and by a sort of distilling process get out of the earth the salt that before the Civil War had dripped from the pork and other meats that had been cured in the smokehouse." This made a fairly good substitute for the real salt that could no longer he obtained from the closed channels of commerce.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 2
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