20 Kitchen Secrets My Family Never Wrote Down

I grew up between two kitchens — one in Mississippi, one in Nigeria — and neither one of my grandmothers ever wrote a single thing down. These are the twenty kitchen secrets I learned standing next to them: old cooking tricks, real Southern home cooking, and family recipes passed down by watching, not by reading. Ten from my daddy's people in Sunflower County, and ten from my mother's side. Salt timing, cast iron, what a whole onion does to a pot of greens, why the flour goes in the skillet dry, and the things nobody ever thought to write on a card. Every one of them is something you can try in your own kitchen tonight, and every one is exactly how it was done in mine. Tell me your family's trick down in the comments — I read every single one. old kitchen tricks, southern home cooking, family recipes, cooking tips, cast iron cooking, grandmother recipes, home cooking, kitchen secrets