30 Appalachian KITCHEN TOOL Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down

Today Hazel opens a kitchen drawer she had left shut for eleven years and explains 30 forgotten Appalachian tools - what each one did, what problem it solved, and why it disappeared. These were never decorations or antiques to the women who used them; they were the working answers that made flour, butter, coffee, soap, sausage, canned food, clean clothes, heat, and drinking water possible. In this one Hazel covers: • Flour sifters, dough bowls, pie safes, churns, sad irons, washboards, and battling sticks • Sausage stuffers, lard presses, meat grinders, coffee mills, milk crocks, and kraut cutters • Apple peelers, hammer-and-rock nutcrackers, salt boxes, jelly-glass biscuit cutters, and match safes • Lamp tools, flour-sack towels, cornstick pans, stone crocks, wire-bail jars, and wash-boiler canners • The ceiling, wood box, oilcloth, iron kettle, ash hopper, skillet, pocket knife, and whetstone • The plain tin object hidden beneath the towel until number one Every tool in this drawer tells the story of a job that once had to be done by hand. Tell us what survived in your family's kitchen, what is still hiding in the barn loft, and whether anybody remembers how to use it. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Drawer Hazel Would Not Open 2:14 Crank the Flour Sifter by Hand 3:32 Never Scrub the Old Dough Bowl 4:46 Keep Flies Out With a Pie Safe 5:53 Churn Cream With the Dasher 7:05 Heat Two Sad Irons at Once 8:10 Wash Clothes With Board, Stick, and Kettle 9:16 Stuff Sausage and Press the Lard 10:16 Clamp the Meat Grinder to the Table 11:16 Grind Coffee in the Little Wooden Box 12:15 Skim Cream From the Milk Crock 13:11 Slice Cabbage on the Kraut Cutter 14:02 Peel a Bushel Before Dinner 14:50 Crack Nuts With Hammer and River Rock 15:39 Keep Salt Dry Beside the Stove 16:29 Cut Biscuits With a Jelly Glass 17:17 Guard Every Match in the Match Safe 18:07 Clean Chimneys and Trim Lamp Wicks 18:58 Flour Sacks Became the Kitchen Linen 19:58 Bake Crisp Cornsticks in Cast Iron 20:49 One Stone Crock Did a Hundred Jobs 21:52 Seal Jars With Rubber and Wire 22:44 The Wash Boiler Became a Canner 23:48 Store Food Overhead on the Ceiling 24:36 The Wood Box Was a Child's Job 25:25 Oilcloth Made the Table Washable 26:12 The Yard Kettle Took the Biggest Jobs 27:15 Turn Wood Ashes Into Lye Soap 28:17 The Skillet Refused to Disappear 29:15 Sharpen Everything With Knife and Stone 30:19 One Tin Dipper Served Everybody 33:29 They Knew - Now It's Written Down