[Sca-cooks] a grain question- probably OOP

[johnna holloway]

Johnnae sends greetings.
 Sorghum bicolor of the saccharatum group is also crushed to
 produce a syrup that is used on pancakes. The grain is finely
ground and used in pancake batter and breads. Lots of sorghum
in this country used to get chopped up and stored in silos to be
later fed to cattle as winter feed.

Johnna Holloway

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:>
> Laura C. Minnick wrote:
> > Hi there! > Does anyone know what is 'kaffircorn'?
REPLY ....snipped
> Sorghum.  it is also grown in the U.S. It looks
> vaguely like maize;
>
> > The context- I'm working my way through a bunch of family records trying
> > to document a picture I recently got, and at the moment, I'm reading
> > through my Great-Grandfather's diary. He was a farmer and Mennonite
> > Pastor, having come to the US from Russia (the family is German though-
> > long story). They later went to Canada, but where I'm reading now it's
> > 1897 and they are in Oklahoma. The diary entries are fascinating (I
> > already read how he built the sod house) though terse and rather sad
> > sometimes (many, many deaths, especially children). But I have noticed
> > that he keeps talking about this kaffircorn that he picks, and I'm not
> > familiar with the term. And what is 'stooking'? it's something they do
> > to corn...
>> > A chuckle- fussing because his wife went along into town and blew $2 on
> > a new corset. Such luxury! ;-) But then when your wheat goes for $.71 a
> > bushel and the crop fetches $21.06, I suppose two bucks is a pretty big
> > thing...
> Well, yes, I'm sure 10% of income that he/they literally sweated for on
> something like a corset would be considered a bit outrageous. On the
> other hand, I'll bet she looked great in it, and he forgot the whole thing.
> Adamantius