Canning Sausage
I love my Ball Blue Book of Preserving-its full of canning and preserving advice-on everything from blackberries to clams. This is…
Rendering Lard
For years, Pap has bemoaned the fact that food doesn’t taste as good as it did when he was a…
Hog Killin Day
Hog Killin Day by Keith Jones When it starts to get cold in the fall, the old-timers would always say,…
Hog Killing In Appalachia
All one has to do is to take a walk through the local grocery store’s meat department to see the variety it…
Making Cornbread
Even before we began our journey of corn, I knew in Appalachia, cornbread was the most common way folks today and…
Gritted Bread
After Pap showed me how to parch corn-he told me about gritted bread. Pap recalls 2 types of bread being called…
Parched Corn
Parching corn was yet another way folks made use of the dried corn they had gathered from their fields to feed themselves and…
Pumpkin Roll
After I posted the Oatmeal Dinner Roll recipe one of my friends said “What you should have told them about is your pumpkin roll.”…
Pickled Beans And Corn – The Old Time Way
The first time I ever tasted Pickled Beans and Corn was back in the day when The Deer Hunter and…
Making Blackberry Jelly – The Old Time Way
Blackberry-is by far my favorite kind of jelly. I remember eating peanut butter and blackberry jelly sandwiches as an after…
Granny’s Pear Preserves
Summer has supplied a bumper crop of pears in our area. Thankfully-I had access to more than a few. Granny’s…
Climbing Trees In Appalachia
I’m afraid of heights. As a kid I was too afraid to climb trees and I still am. Not my…