Stop FRYING ONIONS The OLD Way! Try These 40 Appalachian Cooking Tricks

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so my wife finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://cecilrowe.com Cecil Rowe pulls up a chair and counts off forty old Appalachian onion tricks his people cooked by — the fried taters and onions, the money-savers, the winter remedies, and the whole fried blooming onion he swears beats the eleven-dollar one they sell downtown. Cooking secrets and mountain know-how that were never written down, counted from forty on down to the one he holds dearest of all. Every last one of these is in his wife Opal's book, The Holler Receipt Book, over at cecilrowe.com. Tell us in the comments who taught you to cook, and what your people called these. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Eleven-Dollar Onion 1:43 Fried Taters and Onions 2:27 Cut Onions Without Crying 3:21 Leave the Root On, Cut It Last 4:06 Soup Beans, Raw Onion, and Cornbread 4:50 Cut by an Open Window 5:31 Never Store Onions With Potatoes 6:11 Store Onions in Old Pantyhose 6:54 Buttermilk Onion Rings 7:35 Smothered Cube Steak and Onions 8:20 Wet Your Knife Sharp First 9:09 Onion and Honey Winter Syrup 9:49 Liver and Onions, Soaked and Smothered 10:32 Onion Gravy Over a Cold Biscuit 11:21 Soak Cut Onion in Cold Water 12:09 Onion in the Cornbread Dressing 12:49 Rub Your Hands on Cold Steel 13:37 The Cut Onion by the Sickbed 14:21 Quick Vinegar Onions 15:08 Caramelize Low and Slow 15:52 An Onion in Your Sock Overnight 16:43 Get a Real Sear 17:27 An Onion at the Bottom of Every Pot 18:11 Scrape the Brown Bits for Gravy 18:54 Onion Poultice for the Croup 19:33 Kilt Lettuce With Green Onions 20:22 Dust With Cornstarch So the Batter Grips 21:09 Ramps 22:07 The Buttermilk and Egg Dredge 23:00 Warm Roasted Onion for an Aching Ear 23:49 First Green Onions of Spring 24:29 Keep a Cut Onion Cut-Side Down 25:05 Reading Winter in an Onion Skin 25:58 Cook Till Every Layer Pulls Free 26:44 Hot Grease, Set the Onion In Gentle 27:27 Drain on a Wire Rack, Never Paper 28:04 A Whole Onion Roasted in the Coals 29:00 The Coffee Cup Cutting Trick 29:47 Pick the Right Onion and the Sauce 30:38 The Whole Fried Blooming Onion 31:34 The Poor Man's Onion Sandwich