Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Dalby, Leicestershire
Description
[Side 1] Frank recalls butcher slaughtering pig and describes troughs used in past for salting and curing 'flitches' [= sides of bacon], talks about home-cured bacon and ham, gives recipe for stuffed 'chine' [= meat around pig's backbone], briefly mentions father also worked as waggoner, recalls drinking 'small beer' [= weak/inferior quality beer] at work, describes using 'barm' [= brewer's yeast] for home brewing and baking, comments canal previously well used but now overgrown. [Side 2] Frank talks about pastimes in past including fishing on canal, cricket, 'duck-stone' [= traditional chase game] and marbles, reflects on leisure time now and in past.
Metadata
| Identifier | gy3h54jl |
| IRN | 726559 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D180 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gy3h54jl |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 04 May 1956 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 15 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 05 sec. |