45 Soul Food POTATO Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down

📖 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. There is a man's name on the potato sitting in your grocery bin right now, and it is not one of ours. A nurseryman named Luther Burbank crossed a few plants in his garden up in Massachusetts more than a hundred and fifty years ago, sold off what came of it for next to nothing, and that potato still carries his name into every store in this country. 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: ✓ Press every potato with your thumb before it goes in your sack ✓ Cut potatoes go straight into cold water ✓ Never take an electric mixer to mashed potatoes ✓ A new potato does not want a peeler anywhere near it ✓ Fry your potatoes twice ✓ New potatoes in early summer get cooked whole and let alone ✓ Lay the potatoes under the meat, not beside it ✓ Cure sweet potatoes before you bake them 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