You've Been Cooking Cabbage WRONG Your Whole Life! Try These 45 Appalachian Trick

🔗 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 is eighty years old, and for fifty years somebody at every family reunion has asked what she does to her cabbage. She always said bacon grease and patience, and she never told the rest. In this one she counts down 45 old Appalachian tricks for cooking cabbage right, from the iron skillet to the kraut crock to the trench in the garden, and one of the first keeps the smell of boiled cabbage out of your house tonight. All the while a pint jar sits on her kitchen table with the lid on, full of something cold and white that her mama never had to buy. If your cabbage ever came out gray and bitter, that jar is why hers never did, and she finally takes the lid off and tells you what is in it. In this one, Opal covers: • Why the whole house smells of boiled cabbage, and the fifteen minutes that stops it • The order that makes a skillet of cabbage sweet: onion first, bacon lifted out, lid on then off, and salt last • Three old slaws: one with buttermilk, one dressed hot, and one you keep in the freezer till January • Kraut by the signs, two spoons of salt to the pound, a plate and a rock, and how a cabbage kept till spring with no cellar • What is in that pint jar on her kitchen table, and the minute it goes in the skillet Tell Opal down in the comments where you are watching from, and who cooked the cabbage in your house and how. Was it fried or boiled, with fatback or jowl or streaked meat? Tell her if your people made kraut by the signs, and whether anybody in your family still does. Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Jar on Opal's Kitchen Table 1:45 Bacon Grease in a Black Iron Skillet 2:36 The Onion Goes In Before the Cabbage 3:29 Lift the Bacon Out Before the Cabbage Goes In 4:17 Cut It for the Fork, Not for Slaw 5:08 Lid On for Tender, Lid Off for Brown 5:54 Off the Fire in Fifteen Minutes 6:43 A Heel of Bread in the Boilin Pot 7:35 A Spoon of Sugar for a Bitter Head 8:24 The Fat End of the Bacon Is for the Cabbage 9:12 Peel It Down and Cut Out the Core 9:59 The Heart of the Stalk Goes to the Youngest 10:51 Salt It Last 11:42 Slice a Carrot In With It 12:28 Smoked Sausage Makes It Supper 13:21 Wait for the Frost 14:10 Buttermilk in the Slaw 15:04 Hot Dressing Poured Over the Slaw 15:55 Slaw You Keep in the Freezer 16:52 Cider Vinegar, Never the White 17:44 Salt Water Runs the Worms Out 18:31 Set Your Plants Out by the Signs 19:20 Kraut Is Made by the Signs 20:09 Cut the Head and Leave the Stump 21:03 A Cabbage for Keepin and a Cabbage for Eatin 22:01 Boiled Is the Old Way, and Fried Is Ours 22:59 A Hay Mound for Folks With No Cellar 23:58 Bury Them Heads Down in a Trench 25:06 A Silver Dime in the New Year's Cabbage 26:09 Hog Jowl With the New Year's Cabbage 27:09 Drink the Pot Likker 28:05 Cornmeal Dumplins in the Cabbage Pot 29:06 Chow Chow Before the Frost Takes It 30:10 Cabbage Rolls From the Coal Camps 31:09 The Mixed Crock 32:02 Kraut Made of the Whole Head 32:54 The Kraut Board 33:53 Two Spoons of Salt to the Pound 34:57 A Plate and a Rock 35:53 Hot Peppers in the Kraut 36:47 Know Your Three Pieces of Fat Meat 37:48 A Wedge of Cabbage in the Soup Beans 38:45 A Cabbage Leaf on a Sore Knee 39:42 A Walnut in the Pot 40:39 The Jar She Kept From You — Opened 41:42 The Hardest Year Her Family Ever Saw