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…
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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.”…
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Thanksgiving Rolls
With Thanksgiving only a few days away many of us are thinking about food and family. I find it interesting-how folks become connected…
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A Go Devil & A Mystery
I found it surprising that many of you-who usually know all the vocabulary words, were in the dark about go devil. A…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 13
Time for this month’s Vocabulary Test: Gall Gander Give out Give in Go devil Gall-nerve. “The gall of her to…
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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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New Shoes
New shoes-we all get them-we all like them. For the last 24 hours there’s been a girl walking around my…
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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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Appalachian Writers
I have a delightful writer to introduce you to, Shirley Bullock from Kentucky. Last summer I had the pleasure of…
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Veterans Day
I usually attend a Veterans Day program each year. I’m ashamed to say-I never went to one until the girls started…
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Cornmeal Mush
One way our ancestors used cornmeal-was to make mush. Folks think of cornmeal mush as a breakfast food comparable to grits, however in Paps…
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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…
