How To Make Kraut – The Old Timey Way
The Blind Pig household has spent the morning making Kraut. We always make Kraut when the zodiac signs are in the head…
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Cooking Leather Britches
Some of you may remember back in August I made leather britches for the first time. (if you missed it-click here to read…
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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…
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Rendering Lard
For years, Pap has bemoaned the fact that food doesn’t taste as good as it did when he was a…
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Hominy
Making hominy is yet another way Appalachians used dried corn for food. While it was a time consuming process-it added a little variety to their daily diets….
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Freezing Pumpkin & Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
I’m taking a short intermission from corn recipes to put some pumpkin in the freezer. There are 2 recipes I make that call…
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Cornmeal
After folks had gathered in their corn, came the process of making it into cornmeal for human consumption. Most of the cornmeal we buy today…
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Gathering Corn
When Pap was a boy, corn was the most important crop folks grew-I guess it still is for many farmers….
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Bleaching Apples The Old Time Way
I’ve written about drying apples before-but have always been interested in learning more about the way folks in Appalachia bleached…
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School Lunches
School has started for the Blind Pig family. Backpacks are full and we are easing ourselves back into the rhythm of…
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How To Make Leather Britches – Dried Green Beans
Ever heard of Leather Britches? They’re simply dried green beans. Back in the day before-canning jars and pressure cookers were…
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Grapes and Fox Grapes-Juice and Jelly
by Ethelene Dyer Jones Both grape juice and grape jelly were two of the items we “put up” on our…
