[Sca-cooks] a grain question- probably OOP

[Laura C. Minnick]

Sorghum, huh? That's very interesting! I suppose Grandpa would be using
the word corn in the Old World sense...

Thanks to everyone who had an answer for kaffircorn or stooking! You can
find out the darnedest things on this list!

Now- another question- not especially foor-related, but I know there
oare folks on the list who do Old German stuff. There is a term that
comes up several times in the books- "Nervenschwaeche"- translated by
Aunt Esther as 'nervous debility'. I have has some suggest that it was a
form of depression, but I am just a little dubious, as an ancestress
DIED of it in 1824, after having been bedridden from it for 8 weeks. I
thought maybe it could be some sort of seizures or palsy? Any ideas?

And could someone forward the question to Thomas Gloning? I don't have
an address for him and I know he's off-list currently.

Still deep in the reading,

'Lainie