NEVER Throw OUT Your BACON Grease! Try These 45 Appalachian Farm Tricks (Appalachian Mountains)

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe kept a dented old coffee can of bacon grease at the back of her stove for sixty years, in a mountain kitchen where nothing was ever poured down the sink. In this one she counts down 45 old Appalachian ways to use the grease you already saved — the sawmill gravy built days after you fry, the taters pressed flat and fried in the drippings, the cathead biscuits and the cornbread and a flakier pie crust, the soup beans and the greens and popcorn popped in the can — and then a whole second life for that grease far past the stove: rust kept off the cast iron, a splinter drawn from a child's hand, boots waterproofed, a fire lit on a wet morning. And she holds back till the very end the two she never quite says out loud — how that same can held off the dark the December the power went out, kept for number two, and the dearest one of all, the reason a daughter goes first to the can off her mother's stove. In this one, Opal covers: • The gravies, eggs, and taters off the grease you already saved • Cathead biscuits, cornbread, and a flakier pie crust with a spoon of grease • Soup beans, greens, fried cabbage, and popcorn popped in the can • Grease as a tool — rust off the skillet, a squeaky hinge, boots, and dry tool handles • The old homestead uses — a cracked heel, a splinter, a fire starter, suet for the winter birds • How the old can held off the dark, held back to number two • The dearest one of all, held to the very last Where are you watching from, and who taught you to keep a grease can going — a mama, a mawmaw, some neighbor woman down the road? Tell Opal down in the comments, and tell her what your people called the grease can where you come from. Is there anybody left in your family still keeping one on the back of the stove? CHAPTERS 0:00 The Dented Old Coffee Can 1:52 Sawmill Gravy Off the Saved Can 2:52 Fried Taters and Onions 3:55 Cathead Biscuits, Cut With Cold Grease 4:44 Eggs Scrambled Slow in the Grease 5:40 A Spoon of Grease in the Soup Beans 6:36 Grease in the Green Beans 7:26 Popcorn Popped in the Can 8:19 Fried Corn Off the Cob 9:03 Greens Seasoned With Grease 9:54 A Spoon of Grease in the Pie Crust 10:44 Grease Folded Into the Cornbread 11:39 Wilted Dandelion Greens 12:42 Fried Cabbage in the Black Skillet 13:45 The Onion Base for Soups and Stews 14:42 Roots Roasted in the Grease 15:51 The Grease Wipe That Holds Off Rust 16:47 The Cold-Start Crispy-Bottom Egg 17:47 The Greased Dutch Oven for Camp Bread 18:41 Hot Potato Salad, Dressed Warm 19:35 The Base for Cornbread Dressing 20:26 Putting Up Meat Under a Seal 21:31 Grease in the Yeast Rolls 22:20 The Last Spoon Over the Dog's Supper 23:13 Knowing When the Can Has Turned 24:31 A Stuck Drawer, Freed With Grease 25:19 The Squeak Worked Out of a Hinge 26:10 Grease Worked Into Leather Boots 27:11 Grease Packed on a Cracked Heel 28:19 A Splinter Drawn Out Overnight 29:14 Suet Cakes for the Winter Birds 30:14 A Fire Starter That Lights Wet 31:23 Grease on the Trap Trigger 32:20 Catfish Bait Rolled From Grease and Meal 33:30 Grease Into a Dry Tool Handle 34:24 Keeping the Rust Off Your Tools 35:20 Cornmeal Okra and Squash 36:22 Grease in the Apple Stack Cake 37:30 Waterproofing Canvas With Grease 38:28 The Warm Rub for a Croupy Chest 39:30 Saving a Cracked Leather Bible 40:43 A Dab for Chapped Lips 41:41 A Ring to Hold Off the Slugs 42:41 Keeping a Knife and the Shears Working 43:36 The Lamp That Held Off the Dark 44:43 The Can She Left Behind 46:07 Keep Your Own Can Going