How to Make Apple Butter
Several weeks back a reader asked if I could share my apple butter recipe. The recipe I use came from…
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Memories of Syrup Making Days
Chitter skimming syurp “When I was young, I always looked forward to the late summer because it meant syrup-making time….
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Mountain Flavors Day Two – Pickles
Pickling with vinegar and fermenting are methods used to preserve the bounty of the garden. We’re all familiar with cucumber…
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Fox Grapes
Fox Grape Bonanza on the Blue Ridge Divide In 1947, we moved into the Steer Creek area near the Blue…
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NC Chow Chow
Chow chow is a vegetable mixture that is either pickled or fermented. I don’t recall Granny ever making chow chow…
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Grandma Ida’s Fermented Chow Chow
Fermented foods are all the rage right now. Most of us are familiar with fermenting cabbage to make kraut or…
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How Granny Ripens Green Tomatoes In The Fall Of The Year
Can you believe this lush green tomato bed? Our tomatoes always look like this in July, but in October-NEVER!…
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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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Molasses Making
Molasses making in Haywood County NC molasses boiling, molasses making, molasses stir off noun A social work activity, sometimes lasting…
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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…
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Corncob Jelly
Corncob Jelly – Mountain Cooking by John Parris 1978 Highlands Elizabeth Edwards, who operates a business with a strictly mountain…
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How To Make Grape Jelly
Our grape vines did very well this summer and its a good thing since there was no blackberries to make…
