20 Appalachian SEASONING Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down

20 Appalachian SEASONING Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down My oldest granddaughter called me of an evening about eight years back, mad as a hornet. She had my mother's soup beans wrote out on a card in her own hand. Beans. Water. A piece of hog. Salt. She'd done every bit of it exactly and it come out tasting like wet paper, and she told me the recipe was wrong. The recipe wasn't wrong. It was missing about nine things my mother never thought of as ingredients. She thought of them as cooking. Twenty Appalachian seasoning tricks, counted down. You'll find out which spice cost these mountains real cash money — and why, when the government finally tested it, only one sample in thirteen was actually that spice. You'll find out which flavor in your chewing gum is perfectly safe as a leaf and has killed children as an oil. And you'll find out what a pinch, a dab and a smidgen actually measured, and why not one woman on this ridge was ever able to hand it down. Every claim on screen with its source. That includes the ones that go against the folklore: the summer savory evidence is thin, the MSG scare was one letter and not a study, and the little measuring-spoon "standard" you've seen online was invented in the early 2000s to sell spoons. ⚠️ This video covers wild plants and concentrated flavoring oils. Oil of wintergreen is not food and must never be used to flavor anything — Poison Control, 1-800-222-1222. Nothing here is medical advice; identify wild plants with a local expert before you eat them. #Appalachia #AppalachianCooking #OldWays #Homesteading #LostSkills #OldTimeCooking #Seasoning #WildEdibles #CastIronCooking #AmericanHistory #SelfReliance #ruralamerica 1. Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) — walnut catsup https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50453 2. The Blue Grass Cook Book (1904) — walnut catsup https://archive.org/details/bluegrasscookboo00fox 3. USDA Bureau of Chemistry / Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) — ground spice adulteration https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/histories-product-regulation/part-i-1906-food-and-drugs-act-and-its-enforcement 4. USDA NRCS PLANTS — Allium vineale (field garlic) https://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile/ALVI 5. NC State Extension — Amianthium muscaetoxicum (fly poison) https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/amianthium-muscaetoxicum/