25 MORE Appalachian Cooking Tricks Grandma Has Never Wrote Down

📖 The old ways, written down and sourced — ezracade.com 25 MORE Appalachian Cooking Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down. This is gravy. Chocolate gravy — cocoa and sugar and a little flour cooked down like sawmill gravy and poured hot over a split biscuit. If you didn't come up in these mountains you've likely never heard of it, and that's a sorrow. Maw made it Sunday mornings and I can smell it yet. Here's 25 more cooking tricks Maw never wrote down — the things she did by feel, that you only know if you stood at her elbow. You'll find out which jar of green beans can kill a grown man (and why the way she canned them was the danger), which trick everybody swears fixes a too-salty soup but does next to nothing, and — at number one — the deepest cooking there is, the food you cook and carry to a house where somebody just died. Where a claim rests on real food science, it's sourced, and the sources are on screen. Where the old ways were wrong — the potato in the soup, the grape leaf in the pickle crock — I say so, and tell you what's actually true. Historical and educational. Not medical, legal, or food-safety advice. Home canning done wrong can cause fatal botulism — low-acid foods (beans, corn, meat) must be pressure-canned; follow current USDA and National Center for Home Food Preservation guidance. #Appalachia #SouthernCooking #MountainLife #OldRecipes #Grandma #Homestead #ChocolateGravy #CastIron #Canning #Biscuits #FoodHistory #comfortfood 1. The Kitchn — why recipes call for scalded milk https://www.thekitchn.com/why-do-some... 2. J. Agric. Food Chem. — cooking reduces soluble oxalate https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf04... 3. America's Test Kitchen — baking soda and beans https://www.americastestkitchen.com/a... 4. Utah State Univ. Extension — crisp home-pickled vegetables (grape leaf / blossom end) https://extension.usu.edu/preserve-th... 5. America's Test Kitchen — cold-oven pound cake https://www.americastestkitchen.com/r...