55 Appalachian Cooking Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe counts down the old mountain way in the kitchen — 55 Appalachian cooking tricks the mountain women did by heart and never once wrote on paper. From keeping a cast-iron skillet seasoned with lard and never scrubbed, to the buttermilk soak and cold brine that turn a cheap, tough cut tender and juicy, to the grease can behind the stove, the salt-and-smoke cure on a whole hog, chicory coffee stretched out of a ditch weed, and Bonnie clabber soured down into curds — it's how the old-timers fed a whole family off the land with nothing going to waste. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Pot of Cabbage in Milk 1:51 The Egg and Water Test 2:40 The Grease Can by the Stove 3:28 A Buttermilk Soak for Tough Meat 4:25 A Screaming-Hot Skillet for Cornbread 5:10 Never Scrub the Cast Iron 6:06 Fried Apple Pies 6:57 Coffee Stretched with Chicory 7:44 Curing Meat in the Smokehouse 8:31 Saving a Pot of Burnt Beans 9:09 Milk Gravy, Some Call Sawmill 9:52 A Cold Saltwater Brine 10:38 Seasoning Cast Iron with Lard 11:42 A Root Cellar in Straw and Sand 12:29 A Low Simmer for a Cheap Cut 13:22 Drying Apples on the Tin Roof 14:14 Rendering Lard for the Cracklings 15:05 Reading the Oven by Hand 16:06 A Pinch of Soda in the Beans 16:43 Buttermilk and Soda for Rising 17:35 Crackling Cornbread 18:20 Cat Head Biscuits 19:11 A Milk Soak for Wild Game 20:06 Pot Liquor 20:48 Sorghum and Molasses 21:39 The Dry-Salt Ham Cure 22:33 Kilt Lettuce 23:29 Parboiling Bitter Wild Greens 24:22 Water-Glassing the Eggs 25:18 Red-Eye Gravy from the Ham 26:20 Vinegar Pie and Chess Pie 27:17 The Raw Potato for a Salty Pot 28:23 Soup Beans and Cornbread 29:23 Chocolate Gravy Over Biscuits 30:28 A Hunk of Seasoned Meat 31:37 Kraut and Pickles in a Crock 32:31 An Egg to Settle the Coffee 33:27 Scraping the Cob for Corn Milk 34:16 Bonnie Clabber 35:21 Churning Butter, Keeping the Buttermilk 36:25 The Spring House 37:28 Pouring the Bean Water Off 38:14 Pounding a Round Steak Tender 39:13 A Hoe Cake on the Griddle 40:17 An Ash Cake in the Coals 41:19 Beaten Biscuits Pounded by Hand 42:35 Dried Apple Stack Cake 43:32 Leather Britches 44:28 Salt-Rising Bread 45:33 Sausage Packed Down in Lard 46:42 Killing the Hog in the Cold 47:35 Parboiling the Wild Game 48:35 Sealed Under Wax and Tallow 49:30 Pepper and Ash on the Ham 50:38 The Cabbage in Milk, Revealed 51:55 The One She Never Wrote Down 53:05 Written Down at Last