33 BANNED Appalachian Cooking Tricks That Scientists Now Say Were GENIUS

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so my wife Opal finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://cecilrowe.com Cecil Rowe counts down the old mountain way in the kitchen — the Appalachian cooking tricks the mountain women did by heart and never once wrote on paper. From the grease can behind the stove and greens killed with hot bacon fat, to rendering your own lard, salt-rising bread, and reading the frying grease by eye instead of a thermometer, it's how the old-timers fed a whole family off the land with nothing going to waste. These are the doings the county health men and the food companies once warned folks off of — the ones the science quietly came around and proved right. And there's one Cecil saves for the very end, number one, that he says isn't a trick at all: it's the thing that dies when a pair of hands does, and that no cookbook ever managed to write down. His mama held all of it behind her eyes and never set a word of it to paper. Until now. In this one, Cecil covers: • Fat & grease — the grease can by the stove, keeping every bit of it cold, rendering your own leaf lard, and reading the grease by eye instead of a thermometer • Biscuits, breads & dough — hardly handling the dough, rushing the biscuit straight to the heat, browning the flour for gravy, sourdough before it was fashionable, salt-rising bread, and corn pone baked in the ashes • Cast iron — the screaming-hot preheated pan and the black skillet you never scrubbed • Sweets — cold coffee in the chocolate cake, a pinch of salt in everything sweet, and long-sweetening with sorghum • Waste nothing — beans on the fire all day, saving the pot liquor, greens killed with hot grease, the bones nobody else would keep, and cornbread crumbled in cold buttermilk • Buttermilk & the old leavenings — buttermilk in about everything and the eggshell in the coffee pot • Keeping & putting up — a crock of brine instead of a jar, putting by the tail of the garden, the spring house in place of the icebox, leather britches, a winter's eggs held with no ice, soaking corn in wood-ash lye, and corn and beans in one bundle • The heritage & the finish — the salt-and-smoke cure on a whole hog, poke sallet run through change after change of water, and the one she never wrote down: no measure but her own two hands These are the real secrets the old mountain folks knew — and now they're finally written down. What's the one thing your mama or your granny did at her stove that you carry only because you stood and watched her do it? Tell us down in the comments who she was to you, and what part of the country she cooked in — Cecil reads every last one. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Receipts She Never Wrote Down 1:01 The Grease Can by the Stove 1:52 Keep Every Bit of It Cold 2:44 Hardly Handle the Dough 3:29 The Screaming-Hot Iron Pan 4:23 Cold Coffee in the Chocolate Cake 5:06 A Pinch of Salt in the Sweet 5:51 Beans on All Day 6:36 Save the Pot Liquor 7:27 Greens Killed with Hot Grease 8:17 Brown the Flour First 9:11 Buttermilk in About Everything 10:06 Rush the Biscuit to the Heat 10:58 Corn and Beans in One Bundle 11:50 Leather Britches 12:45 A Crock of Brine, Never a Jar 13:38 Put By the Tail of the Garden 14:30 The Spring House, Not the Icebox 15:23 The Bones Nobody Else Would Keep 16:22 Render Your Own Lard 17:20 A Spoon of Vinegar in the Pie Dough 18:08 Sourdough, Before It Was Fashionable 19:10 The Black Skillet You Never Scrubbed 20:12 The Eggshell in the Coffee Pot 21:07 Salt-Rising Bread 22:07 Soaking Corn in Wood-Ash Lye 23:10 A Winter's Eggs Held Without Ice 24:07 Long-Sweetening with Sorghum 25:20 Corn Pone Baked in the Ashes 26:17 Poke Sallet 27:17 Read the Grease, Toss the Thermometer 28:18 The Salt-and-Smoke Cure on a Whole Hog 29:16 Cornbread Crumbled in Cold Buttermilk 30:13 No Measure but Her Own Two Hands 31:22 Cecil's Challenge to You