43 Banned SOUTHERN Cooking Tricks That Scientists Now Say Were GENIUS

🔗 These were fixin to be lost, so I set em down. All of em plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.rubysrecipebox.com Ruby Dawson — Meemaw Ruby, eighty-two, out of the red-clay peanut country of Southwest Georgia, outside Albany — counts down forty-three old Southern cooking tricks the smart folks spent fifty years shaming folks for, that turned out right all along. Alongside her own Georgia cooking she hands on the dishes four dear friends taught her, from a Breaux Bridge kitchen to the Mississippi Delta to the West Side of San Antonio. And the whole way down, a single stick of butter sits out on her counter — the one thing they begged every Southern woman to throw out — while she holds back the name of what they wanted her to use in its place. At number two, she finally sets it down. These were never backwardness; they were the hard-won sense of women who fed their families through everything. In this one, Ruby covers: • The fat she keeps in a jar by the stove — and why the science finally came around • A friend's Delta pound cake that goes into a stone-cold oven, the way every baker swears is wrong • The old crock of kraut and pickles the gut-health folks now sell for a fortune • The low-and-slow secret her husband Dale ran on the smoker through the night for fifty years • The one thing they swore she should swap her butter for — that got banned instead (she waits till the very end to name it) Tell Ruby down in the comments what state you're watching from — and whether your mama made it this way too. She reads every single one herself. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Stick of Butter on the Counter — and the 50-Year Lie 2:01 Whole Milk, Cream and All 3:00 The Whole Egg, Yolk and All 4:00 Cast Iron, Every Single Day 4:58 Pimento Cheese From Scratch 5:56 The Almost-Burnt Dark Roux 6:55 Why She Never Washes the Chicken 7:48 The Bacon Grease Jar by the Stove 8:48 Bones and Scraps, Simmered for Broth 9:43 Buttermilk in Near Everything 10:40 The Fat Cap on Homemade Stock 11:32 Plain Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits 12:26 Salting the Meat the Night Before 13:10 Letting the Meat Rest 13:55 The Yellow Mustard Catfish Bath 15:00 Butter and Eggs at Room Temperature 15:53 A Splash of Vinegar in the Pie Crust 16:42 Skillet Cornbread, No Sugar 17:39 Greens Cooked Long and Slow 18:33 Why She Doesn't Scrub Fresh Eggs 19:22 Chicken Soaked in Buttermilk Overnight 20:22 Ernestine's Delta Hot Tamales 21:18 Lois's Peach Cobbler — Don't Stir, Don't Peek 22:21 Boiled Peanuts, Soft and Salty 23:20 Dried Beans, No Soaking 24:20 Ernestine's Cold-Oven Pound Cake 25:25 Kraut and Pickles in a Crock 26:18 Cider Vinegar in the Greens 27:19 Preheating the Cast Iron Skillet 28:08 Sweet Potatoes, Skin and All 29:18 Josette's Brown Jambalaya 30:18 Ernestine's Hot-Water Cornbread 31:21 The Fellowship-Hall Casseroles 32:20 Cream Gravy From the Drippins 33:26 The Green Bean Casserole 34:22 Lupe's Lard Flour Tortillas 35:29 Canning the Garden at Home 36:44 Beans With a Smoked Ham Hock 37:49 The Chili Queens of San Antonio 38:56 Sweet Potato Pie Over Pumpkin 40:00 Real Cooked Banana Pudding 40:58 Brisket and Pork Shoulder, Low and Slow 41:59 The Stick of Butter She Kept — Revealed 43:14 Number One — The Fat They Told Her to Throw Out