Ambrosia at Christmas Time
Many folks in the mountains of Appalachian don’t think it would be Christmas without Ambrosia. Granny always made fruit salad…
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Souse Meat and Liver Mush
Canned sausage “Mountain Cooking” by John Parris Souse Meat and Liver Mush – Laurel Branch Hog-killin time in the hills…
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Butchering Day was a Social Occasion
More Than Moonshine – Appalachian Recipes and Recollections by Sidney Saylor Farr “Meats: Game and Tame Butchering time during a…
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Hog Killin Weather
One of my favorite cold sayings is cold enough to kill hogs or the variation cold enough to hang meat….
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Cooking With Family
Instead of sharing one recipe with you today, I’m going to share a whole book full! I first met Janet…
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Applepeel Pie
“Apples was scarce one year. Real scarce. My grandmother had a half bushel of apples. She canned the apples, and…
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Green Tomato Relish
Our recent spell of freezing temperatures forced me to pick all the tomatoes and peppers before they froze. While the…
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Good Coffee
Burningtown The old coffee mill that hung on grandma’s kitchen wall has disappeared. The homemade oven Grandpa used to parch…
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Pumpkin and Cream Cheese Muffins
This time of the year I always start getting a taste for pumpkin recipes. A couple weeks ago, one of…
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Ice Cream Cake
The first overnight trip we took the girls on after they were born was to Papaw Tony and Nana’s…
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Canned Sweet Apples
I came across this apple recipe in the cookbook Mountain Cooking written by John Parris. When I read it I…
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Bleached Apples?
This is the season for apples in Appalachia. I’ve made applesauce, apple jelly, and apple preserves. Most years I dry…
