Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 24

A Family Manufacturing and Sales Project

and eating. It was the only room in the house. except the bedroom which led directly off the kitchen. However, the family was happy to keep up its reputation for producing a quantity of good, wholesome potato starch for My brother and I hurried to get our job done. The tubs had been stored on the back porch after last Satur- the kitchen and lined them up across the middle of the floor. Daddy brought in the sacks of washed potatoes and leaned them along the wall near the door that led into the bedroom. The room now resembled some type of and set them ready for use. £ach prater was almost as large as one of our regular washboards. They were made of polished tin and constructed so that one side pro-j ccted a sharp grater suit face sufficient to handle the All was in readiness. Morning found us ready to begin the work as soon as our breakfast of graham mush and Luasted homemade bread was finished. Daddy poured out three pans of the cleaned potatoes and set one beside each of the three tubs. He then took his position in front of one and assigned us two boys to taking a potato in the right hand and pushing it up and down on the crater to shave the pota toes into rine particles. We had to see that the gratings were safely emptied into the tub before us. He cautioned us to be 9