Sassafras Tea
Nothing Like Sass Tea, Yellow Mountain – John Parris “Mountain Cooking” For many an old-timer still clinging to customs of…
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Putting up Grapes in Choestoe
Today’s guest post was written by Ethelene Dyer Jones. Both grape juice and grape jelly were two of the items…
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Old Time Snacks
Snacks to Pass the Time – Sidney Saylor Farr In early June, Mother and Aunt Mossie used to take all…
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Butter and Cheese
Churned Butter and Cottage Cheese “We used dairy products in a variety of ways. Whole milk, skim milk, buttermilk, and…
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Easy Cinnamon Cake
One of my friends at work shared this easy peasy recipe with me. She said it was perfect when you…
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Streak-ed Meat
Cornbread, green onions, and streak-ed meat streaked bacon, streaked meat, streaked middling, streaky lean noun Same as striped meat. A…
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Sweet Potato Pie Memories
“I used to make the best sweet potato pie you ever put your tooth on. Sweet potato pie is wonderful!…
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Breakfast
Breakfast My parents were up early, as there was a lot to be done in the day. We had a…
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Lemon Loaf Cake
I recently stumbled upon a recipe for lemon olive oil cake. With the hopes of spring on my mind I…
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Bread in Appalachia
Biscuits, Cornpone, and Cracklin’ Bread – More Than Moonshine – Sydney Saylor Farr “People in almost any country in the…
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Amish Fruit Cake
On a regular basis my computer desktop get so cluttered with files that I can’t find anything. Eventually I get…
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Dishpan Pie
“You know, we didn’t have no cans to can nothing in. We dried our blackberries, and in the winter, we’d…
