--- 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