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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> My maternal grandmother (Deep South) used to order a
> Virginia smoked ham every year.  In the very deep south, I
> remember lots of people having what they called "smoke
> houses, but I don't remember one ever using them to
> smoke meat.  Maybe for the reason you said (humidity,heat)
> I don't know...bobf 

In our community almost every farmhouse had a smoke house.  Typically a 10x12 
building 10-20 feet from the back door.  used for storage.  My grandmother 
talked about smoking meat when she was a girl.  I guess a lot of the 
smokehouses were left over from that era.
Van Dell