35 Cheap 1930s Dishes Our Black Ancestors Ate To Survive

📖 Get Mama Odessa's Complete Soul Food Kitchen Method, every recipe in Big Mama's kitchen written down and measured (106 recipes, 332 pages): https://mamaodessa.com My name is Odessa Mae. In the nineteen thirties a man named George Washington Carver, at Tuskegee, was printing bulletins that told poor farm families how to make supper out of dandelion, chicory and wild onion. He was not being sentimental. In this video I walk you through every one of them, in the order I cook them, the way my mama and her mama did it. In this video: ✓ Hoecake ✓ Sawmill gravy over biscuits ✓ Sweet potato pone ✓ Cornmeal dumplings dropped in pot likker ✓ Rabbit smothered down in gravy ✓ Corn cut off the cob with okra and butter beans ✓ Cush None of this was ever a secret. It just never made it onto a page, because the women who knew it were too busy cooking to write it down. Cook one of these tonight the way somebody showed you. Then tell me in the comments whose kitchen you learned it in, what county, and what it smelled like when it was right. I read every one of them. Stay close to the stove. And remember, the women who fed this country out of one pot knew things we are only just starting to remember. # SoulFood #SouthernCooking #BlackGrandmothers #MississippiDelta #CastIron #CheapMeals #OldWays #HomeCooking #OdessaMae