1860s Period Foods - Including Good Down Home Eatin'

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While we're in this category: When I was a child, you could walk through the woods and pick chinquapins (spelling) off bushes, peel off their protective cover, and eat the nut inside. Granted, a lot of my woods are now developments; but I never hear anyone talking about those delicious little chinquapins. Are they now an extinct species?

Along the same lines, our woods were filled with beautiful flowers called Jack-in-the Pulpits and also Lady Slippers. Do they still exist?

We also had huckleberry bushes that grew along the sides of the road. You could stop your car on the small shoulder and pick huckleberries to your heart's content. They don't exist wild anymore around here. I assume that the winter chemicals have killed them off.

Sorry, I'm in a nostalgic mood today.