1 gallon cucumbers, sliced (not peeled)
2 cups salt
2 tbsp. powdered alum or 1 ½ Tbsp. crystal alum
1 Tbsp. celery seed
2 Tbsp. ginger
1 Tbsp. whole cloves
1 Tbsp. whole allspice
1 pt. vinegar
3 lb. sugar
1 oz. stick cinnamon
1 gallon water
Let cucumbers stand in brine mixture (2 cups salt and 1 gallon water) for 6 days. Drain, rinse, cover with clear water; add alum, boil 10 minutes. Drain, cover with clear water and boil with ginger. Drain; simmer 10-15 minutes in the following mixture until transparent; celery seed, clove, allspice, cinnamon, vinegar and sugar. (Put all spices in a cheesecloth bag.) Pack loose in jars. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~ Sir Francis Drake
1 medium head cabbage
2 large green peppers
1 bunch celery
6 to 8 carrots
6 beef cubes
2 medium onions
2 large cans tomatoes
Chop all ingredients. Add beef cubes. Add water to cover vegetables. Cook 30 to 40 minutes or until tender. This is a soup to lower blood pressure and to lose weight.
Remember: This diet should only be followed for 7 days at a time, with at least two weeks in between.
Day One:
Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas). Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day. For your beverages; unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.
Day Two:
Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.
Day Three:
Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you want. No Baked Potato.
Day Four:
Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup. This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.
Day Five:
Beef And Tomatoes: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomatoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for the beef; for one of the beef days (but not both).
Day Six:
Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart’s content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.
Day Seven:
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Again stuff, stuff, stuff yourself. Be sure to eat your soup at least once this day.
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Sheila,
sorry to take so long. I just got back from three weeks out of the country. here is the emails from the lady I mentioned….my reply to here is sandwiched in the middle. she seems to really believe the Giovanni stuff….I remain skeptical. notice no one is forthcoming with documents…..
Carole Poteat-Levitz
—– Original Message —–
From: Mary
To: ‘Stan & Carole Levitz’
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: patitte
A genealogist here in the states was the one who rec’d info from England and that was years ago. I can’t help you there.
You are assuming that the spelling is the same as now.
I used to be in touch with an Italian genealogist and she said spellings don’t hold….just as we know about many of the immigrants. People NEVER verified spellings until in the 1900’s.
I’ve been researching the family along with others and we can’t verify any one before England. During the time of Giovanni’s arrival and before, we looked up the history of what was going on in Italy and how the young men were leaving that country and the conditions in Italy.
All of the info I sent you was verified and I am totally satisfied as well as all my family. The Crabtree-Poteet connection helped. The line I am in was from Md to VA, to NC to GA and TX.
My spelling is Poteet.
My mother who was born in 1893 and researched her family and for my Dad.
I sent you the info that I trust and whether you do, is up to you.
From: Stan & Carole Levitz
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:44 AM
To: Mary
Subject: Re: patitte
Hi Mary,
I appreciate your prompt reply to my email. This is all very, very interesting. I would be most interested in contacting the English genealogist who has researched Giovanni Patitte. I have seen a photocopy of the entry on the bill of land sale in Maryland but I felt that it wasn’t enough info to take the leap. The closest Italian name I can find is Patito from an area of Sicily. It would be most helpful to connect with someone “across the pond” who is researching the Poteet name. I have never found anyone outside the US with any knowledge of that name. It has been a lifetime of frustration for me not to be able to connect and document my maiden name anywhere outside the US.
You didn’t mention how your name is spelled. My father is related to those who left Baltimore and ended up in north western North Carolina.
If you could send me information on how to contact the English research I will do so. Thanks so much for your time, I sincerely appreciate it!
Carole Poteat-Levitz
—– Original Message —–
From: Mary
To: Stan & Carole Levitz
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:59 PM
Subject: patitte
There have been 3 professional genealogists in the family and one of them made contact in England with one who did research on the family and the Crabtrees. They were intermarried because we found they had plantations near each other.
The man from London said Giovanni was known as “little Lord John Poteet”. He was known in England to sponsor people interested in settling in America and he received free acreage in VA from England.
A bill of land sale in Maryland states – KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT I, JOHN POTEET ITALIAN, FROM BALTIMORE COUNTY IN THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND. He received 9 shillings for the land.
In a book about the Crabtrees, there is info about land holdings, the purchase of an Irish servant and was visited by Royale Crabtree who examined grants held by William from Charles II, King of England. In this neighborhood also lived the Italian family of Poteet. They were all from England and settled near Deer Creek and Stout Bottle Creek. This statement is word for word from the info.
I don’t have time to look it up, but his son John was also Identified as Italian.
Because of land shortage in MD, all of the 2 families (Crabtree-Poteet) moved from Baltimore.
The spelling Poteete probably originated because of the 3 verbal sounds of the Italian name. Even some people back east don’t spell it the same as my family, but they use the 3 verbal sounds.
Denise Marybelle Leon
Born: 1 Aug 1960
San Diego, California
Death: 16 Sept 2009
Orange, California
DENISE LEON ADKINS
Father: Pete Leon
Mother: Joan Chising
Married: Richard Len Adkins (1956-1995) on 20 Jun 1981 – Clark, Nevada
Adkins, Denise, age 49, passed away September 16, 2009. She is survived by her parents, Pete and Joan Leon; her two daughters, Tracy Adkins and Rachel Adkins; her significant other, Joe Courson; her sister, Diane Despujol; and brother, Danyol Leon. Viewing, Friday, September 25 2009 at noon, followed by funeral service, Waverley Chapel, Santa Ana, CA Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary.
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