“Along with milk and eggs, vegetables were an integral part of our diet in the mountains. The vegetables most commonly…
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Appalachian Food
“I remember our first stove so well. We even made a poem about it: So well do I remember The…
I love potato salad. I wouldn’t touch the stuff when I was young, but one taste of Miss Cindy’s made…
“When Storekeepers Handled Live Chicken” Country Folks no longer take live chickens to the store to sell. But back in…
I’ve been making Cabbage Patch Stew since before I was married. Back in the day Granny was really into cutting…
A few weeks back Emaline B. Winter emailed me to see if I had ever heard of light cornbread. She…
“We knew when to churn when the milk went “blinky.” This was our custom before we got electricity: We had…
bum bread noun 1980 Smokies Heritage 63 And by and by, storekeepers started selling loaves of white bread, too. Folks…
Laurel Branch Salt pork plays a fat part in mountain cookery. Many of the old-time recipes call for it. Some…
After my post about The Deer Hunter making biscuits on the wood stove I received several questions about our biscuit…