Instructions on how to butcher, cook and carve a spare rib of pork from an 1831 Cincinnati cookbook is below. During this time, the city contained large hog packing operations, shipping the meat to the eastern markets.
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Pickers' checks or tokens for Labor Day
In the early 1900s workers were given a metal token token or "check" for a set number of baskets filled with fruit or vegetables at "truck" farms. Also for oysters shucked. The discs were redeemed for merchandise at area stores or for cash.
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