30 Old Appalachian Kitchen Tricks Your Grandmother Took to Her Grave (Most Are Gone Forever)

🔗 The Mountain Kitchen Guide — 47 Old Appalachian Techniques With Full Instructions: [link] Every trick in this video written out in detail, with the why behind each one. Most people who use it say their cooking changed within the first week. My grandmother's cast iron skillet is on my stove right now. She's been gone nineteen years. The skillet is here. What went with her — what went with ten thousand women like her across ten thousand mountain hollows — is the knowledge. The tricks. The thirty things she did in that kitchen every day without naming them, without writing them down, without thinking they were worth explaining. Here are 30 of them: the cold water biscuit test, the wooden spoon across the boiling pot, the flour in the freezer in summer, the apple in the sugar tin, the twice-salted green bean, the skillet bread with no oven, the clay pot for apple butter, and 23 more. Number fourteen I watched for thirty years without understanding why she did it, and the reason is one of the most elegant pieces of kitchen logic I have ever encountered. Number one is not a trick. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:10 #30 — Cold Water Biscuit Test 02:00 #29 — Save the Bean Water 02:50 #28 — Hot Skillet Before the Batter 03:40 #27 — Lard Paper for Baking Pans 04:25 #26 — Towel Rest for Biscuits 05:15 #25 — Vinegar Trick for Tough Greens 06:05 #24 — Buttermilk as Meat Tenderizer 06:55 #23 — The Resting Board 07:40 #22 — Salt the Water Like the Sea 08:35 #21 — Read the Smell, Not the Clock 09:35 #20 — Cold Butter for Flaky Pastry 10:25 #19 — The Twice-Salted Green Bean 11:20 #18 — Never Wash Cast Iron With Soap 12:15 #17 — The Pinch Test for Cornmeal 13:05 #16 — Wooden Spoon Across the Pot 13:50 #15 — Flour in the Freezer in Summer 14:40 #14 — Why She Floured the Board Twice 15:40 #13 — Apple in the Sugar 16:30 #12 — The Skimming Habit 17:20 #11 — Oven Grate as Cooling Rack 18:10 #10 — Cold Water Candy Test 19:10 #9 — Render Your Own Lard 20:15 #8 — Bean Pot Lid Slightly Ajar 21:05 #7 — Oven Test With Flour 21:55 #6 — The Bread Knock 22:45 #5 — Clay Pot for Apple Butter 23:40 #4 — Skillet Bread Without an Oven 24:35 #3 — The Icebox Brine 25:30 #2 — The Monday Morning Pantry Audit 26:25 #1 — The Thing Underneath All the Tricks 27:15 Zoom-Out Stat 27:50 Final Challenge + Comment Bait 28:15 Next Video Preview Old-school Appalachian kitchen knowledge from someone who learned it firsthand. Subscribe for new videos every week.