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`` Jennie Burton 's sauerkraut is n't going to keep and has n't turned out well , she thinks . Fremy Stockton says it 's because she forgot to put in a little mite of sugar and altogether too much salt . `` Grace Cook 's husband bought a whole pig from some farmer Bloomingdale way , thinking it was going to be good and cold by this time . And Grace has got up at four o'clock every morning for a week and stayed up till midnight , trying to get that pig out of sight . She 's rendered lard and made sausage and salted and smoked meat till every crock is full . Yesterday she was making head cheese , sick to her stomach and crying because there were still the four feet to cook up , and she said she did n't know how to cook them and that each one looked to her about as big as the kitchen stove . `` So I just took off my hat and put those four pig 's feet on the stove to simmer , and I helped her to get the head cheese out of the way .