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…
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Leather Britches
leather britches, leather britches beans noun Green beans put on a thread or string (as at a bean stringing), dried…
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Making Pickles
Pickling’s More’n Cucumbers – Murphy (Mountain Cooking by John Parris) “To many a mountain woman who grew up at a…
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Kraut
kraut A noun Sauerkraut, widely made in the mountains, stored in barrels and kept for winter consumption. The food is…
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Memories and Food
Each of us have memories that are connected to food. Typically those remembrances are directly related to our childhood,…
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What People Used to do with Pumpkins
I’m most familiar with using pumpkins for pies, breads, rolls, roasted seeds, and decorations. I know folks used to eat…
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Gathering Shocks of Fodder
When Pap was a boy, corn was the most important crop folks grew-I guess it still is for many…
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I Made Peach Jelly…Even Though Granny Told Me Not To
Last week Kim, a Blind Pig reader and a friend, posted about making peach jelly from peelings on Instagram. I…
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Do You Like Pickled Peaches?
Do you like pickled peaches? I have never tasted them myself, but I have heard other folks say they love…
