Daddy Taught Me This Egg Secret! Try These 25 Appalachian Cooking Methods

🔗 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 lays out 25 Appalachian egg tricks the old folks cooked by — the kind of plain kitchen sense that stretched one egg across a whole table. From the egg cooked down in a hole in the bread to the strainer trick he never told a single soul, Cecil counts them down one at a time and tells you the why behind each one. Every recipe he leans on lives in his wife Opal's book, The Holler Receipt Book, over at cecilrowe.com. Tell us in the comments where you're watching from, and which one your own people still make. CHAPTERS 00:00 The egg trick he never told a soul 01:56 The egg cooked in a hole in the bread 02:45 Egg gravy the old folks called poor do 03:33 Whisk the bacon grease into the eggs 04:15 Water in your scramble, not milk 04:57 Brown eggs and white 05:38 The salmon patty an egg binds whole 06:22 The egg worked into dumpling dough 07:21 Egg noodles rolled thin and hung to dry 08:07 Spoon bread you eat with a spoon 08:51 Egg butter whipped down into sorghum 09:53 The egg wash on a fried green tomato 10:37 The deviled, or dressed, egg 11:20 A bare egg tells you when it's fresh 12:13 One egg white clears a cloudy broth 13:02 The eggshell dropped in the coffee pot 13:48 Mayonnaise from one egg yolk 14:49 Why a fresh egg is never washed 15:35 A whole winter of eggs, laid down 16:34 The pickled egg turned ruby in beet brine 17:26 The nest egg that holds a hen 18:14 Boiled custard strained through the sieve 19:04 Chess pie, the transparent pie 19:54 Divinity, the egg-white candy 20:41 The strainer egg he saved for last 21:37 The very first egg a body learns to cook