{"id":3836,"date":"2012-02-16T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"butter-and-egg-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/butter-and-egg-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter and Egg Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_6905\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Butter-churning-Brady-Collection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6905\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6905\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Butter-churning-Brady-Collection-851x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A wood carving of a woman churning butter.  Courtesy of the Mountain Heritage Center.\" width=\"620\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Butter-churning-Brady-Collection-851x1024.jpg 851w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Butter-churning-Brady-Collection-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Butter-churning-Brady-Collection-768x924.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Butter-churning-Brady-Collection-1080x1299.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wood carving of a woman churning butter. Courtesy of the Mountain Heritage Center.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appalachian farm wives contributed to their family\u2019s income through the butter and egg money they earned by taking their extra eggs and butter to the general store.\u00a0 They were sometimes exchanged for cash, but usually they were traded for store credit.\u00a0 More broadly, the term referred to any surplus earnings resulting from women\u2019s work.\u00a0 It included profits obtained from raising ducks and turkeys and garden produce, gathering wild nuts and berries, and making homemade items like quilts and baked goods.\u00a0 Butter and egg money often had to be used to pay ordinary household expenses, but sometimes it could be spent on extra treats that were chosen by the wife.\u00a0 Women\u2019s butter and egg money made important contributions to Appalachian farm family incomes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Butter-and-Egg60Mx.mp3|titles=Butter and Egg60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appalachian farm wives contributed to their family\u2019s income through the butter and egg money they earned by taking their extra eggs and butter to the general store. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[33,106,184,195,293,576],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-butter","tag-eggs","tag-farm-life","tag-homelife","tag-womens-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}