A Traditional Appalachian Meal and How to Make Fried Corn
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- Come cook supper with me! We're having cracklin cornbread, fried corn, fried squash from the garden, soup beans, tomatoes from the garden, home canned pickles, and fat back.
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I'm Afro American and grew up on a small vegetable and hog farm in North Florida and it is amazing how similar our meals were to what you grew up on and what you cook. I mean incredibly near identical. Altho we call yellow corn field corn and white corn sweet corn...we fry them both in sweet butter and only add salt to yellow corn. It is a joy to watch you cook and an inspiration because I'm inspired to wash my dishes so I can go throw down in my own kitchen! It just goes to show that people are people and we are, a lot of us, very similar.
So true! Thank you for watching 😀
Amen. And food likes travel. It emigrated. Lol
Let's face it fresh vegetables and hog meat is heaven on earth 🌎
Would love to see you two in the kitchen!! As long as I can sample the product. Heheh
I come from family that were raised in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. I was taught to cook by my grandmother who cooked pretty much like you are showing. In my 20s and going to college, I had a black roommate and it turned out we loved the same foods. I remember going to visit his folks and loving his Momma’s cooking. Turns out poor folks from the South eat the same things. Much like the roots of our music comes from the Gospel music of our Churches, our comfort foods come from the same place: what poor folks could grow or afford to buy. Since growing up, I’ve had the opportunity to travel over much of the world. Although I’ve eaten at some of the fancies restaurants in France and such, I’ve found I love the comfort foods of common poor folks of every part of the world. It’s based upon getting every bit of flavor and nutritional value out of the cheapest of ingredients. And it works.
Thanks for sharing what your folks brought to the table.
That looks like some fine eating. I remember growing up as a kid in the mountains and all I wanted was a hamburger from McDonalds, and we were eating like Kings from the garden. Too young to know how good I had it.
That is the truth!
My Pop in Kentucky had a big beautiful garden and the produce was so tasty. I miss his tomatoes, corn and cantaloupe.
I know, I have reverted back to healthy eating like this, it's what my southern mom cooked growing up. Papa could garden like nobody's business.
Tomatoes and rice yum. String beans cooked in bacon grease
Most of us have to grow up to appreciate real food
My grandparents had a garden and a small farm, and I did prefer what they offered to McDonalds.
But I know what you are talking about. I grew up just north of Houston. At one point, as my dad was building up his small business (Used appliances sales and service), he had the license, and would go to Galveston to get shrimp to sell at times, and he bought a small shrimp boat as well. I do recall us kids saying, "Aw, shrimp again? We want a hamburger." and how we had my parents laughing at us. Momma made the hamburgers, so it wasn't all that funny.
He did the shrimping for a little while and sold the boat, as he had to focus on the business. It wasn't too terribly long before we began missing shrimp as a regular thing instead of an occasional thing. Even young, we understood that it was wrong on several levels to bellyache at all about being served shrimp for supper----the least of those reasons being that fresh, head-on gulf shrimp were going for $4 and $5 per/lb, and ground check was around a dollar per/lb.----but you know kids.
I ate from McDonalds yesterday.
Hello
I'm an African American woman from Colorado. However after watching your show, I've discovered I'm really from Appalachia. 😊 All the food you cook is the same food my mother and father cooked. Not only is the food the same, the way you cook it is the same. I have truly enjoyed watching you today. I can't wait to share your channel with my mother. Thank you
Welcome and thank you 😊
I’m white but this was the way my Granny did corn in Texas.
That plate for the cornbread is the same as my grandparents had
This is definitely the food I grew up on in rural country Georgia . One time I was cooking some black eyed peas and collard greens and cornbread and my dear friend Wade who grew up in Detroit asked me “What you know about collard greens!?” I told him I knew! What he called soul food was what all of us Southern girls grew up on and still cook. It’s the best.
Black eye peas, collards or turnip greens, hog jawl and cornbread is what we cooked here in Georgia for good luck every new year. Yummy 😋
I was lucky to have a true "hillbilly" mother from outside Owenton, Kentucky. Some of my family had outhouses, smokehouses, etc. My mother grew up in the 40s with no refrigerator, and they put lunch meat wrapped in wax paper in a bucket, in the well. My mother's family lived on the same land that they were granted after coming to America from Northern Ireland in the 1740s-ish. They farmed tobacco, and whatever they could grow. My Grandad raised hogs. A true country ham, from my uncle Leo and aunt Geneva's smokehouse was beyond great. Homemade biscuits and sausage gravy was Sunday breakfast. My older cousins made moonshine, which maid them decent money. Proud of my Appalachian and Scots-Irish roots.
Great story!!
My family is from Kentucky and lived here for over 200 years
Land that was "granted" actually means "stolen from the people who already lived there, the Native Americans".
@@unoriented_x4957 Why don't you stop beating a dead horse Karen!
Living the life
Man I miss sharing meals like this with my parents and grandparents. Some people think that all that grease and butter isn’t healthy, but country cooking is usually about the vegetables and not the meat. Just a strip or two of meat and pile the plate with vegetables from your garden, grandpa’s garden meemaw’s garden and the neighbor.
Is that the common meat they serve down there for supper, like a thick type bacon?
@@Tradebear yes it’s like bacon. They call it fat back and sometimes salt pork. Sometimes it can be very salty. It’s also good cooked in beans or mustard green, or any kind of greens.
Me too Makes me want to redo my modern kitchen to something appropriate. Folks lived longer and better lives I guess I need to get a farm and garden.
At the right temps the oil isn't soaking in !
Thank you for showing us a traditional meal from your childhood. It looks delicious. I could see adding some form of baked beans too, with these foods.
'Loved the image of a little you standing on a chair so you could watch your aunt cook the corn, giving it a stir now & then, while being gradually taught in the old ways.
Note: Both Olive or Avocado oil are real,& good for you, for salads or for cookiñg, & organic sweet butter is always good to use, unless it has turned rancid. If the cooking oil tastes bitter, that's a sign that it's rancid. Eating rancid veg oil can make people quite sick for a few days, within a short amount of time.
Hope you don't mind my 2 cents, but your health is at risk.
The hydrogenated fats, like the ones that are truly deadly to us, harm us by blocking our arteries & gunking up our organs.
I noticed that you had put out a tub of marjarin. That's one of the most dangerous of foods that became popular way back when, in the 60s? But most people didn't know this stuff back then. Just hope you stop consuming it.
Hydrogenated corn oil is whipped until it turns into a semi-solid. Sometimes they mix a lesser quality butter into the whipped oil & sell it that way too, but you're still eating hydrogenated fat & shortening your lives.
They use hydrogenated fat in most commercial baked goods too, including pizza crust. white breads, etc.
Due to using overly refined poor quality white flour too, those baked & boxed foods are a double threat or a tripple threat if they include some form of sugar.
They make us all fatter too. Our bodies can process real foods, but man made foods are not natural, so we don't process them well.
Now, since food in the US has been poluted for a few decades, we now have dangerously overweight children & some have developed the adult, acquired Type II Diabetes.
my 84 year old mother still cooks just like this. So good!!
I'm originally from Michigan, and I went to Appalachia and wound up helping poor people fix up their houses. They said I have Forever Friends there and I plan on going back in 2023 sometime.
Holiday Blessings to you dear Lady!! 🙏
I’m watching this with tears in my eyes. If I could go back just for one supper at my grandparents and sit down at their table. Especially during the summer. Sliced tomatoes. Fried okra and squash. Pinto beans. My imagination and memories just go haywire thinking about it. Cornbread. Corn on the cob or cream style. Sliced cucumbers in Italian dressing with sliced onions. There’s not a day that goes by that these thoughts cross my mind and a tear rolls down one of my cheeks. We weren’t well off by no means and we lived on a gravel road on a rural route but I would’ve never known it until now.
💜💜💜
Your family was rich in the important things in life. Children are not experienced enough to have that kind of knowledge. Intelligent adults value more lasting wealth like family and land and survival skills as you do now. Money is made up for control of the masses
Sitting around a big table at oumas house on the farm all ten children and the grandchildren eating the most delicious food no electricity lots of canned foods all the memories floods back still miss you ouma
Well, learn to cook it. I did the first thing I learned is my bay doesn't need to be busy. I cut out all the extra stuff.
Food is real nostalgia connected to memories, days gone. The world has changed so much. Blessings
That jar of bacon grease you have is like having a jar full of gold to me.
Same here! I keep a Mason jar full of it in my fridge. I use it to make gravy and biscuits or when I need to season my cast iron pans after cooking.
Any cook worth their salt always saves all their bacon fat, not just Southern ladies!
Got one of my own girlfriends kid, adults can't stand it dumbing down of America
Great for popping corn as well.
Absolutely is, American Gal!!!👍
Love from an old Englishman who lived in Va for ten-years. Those mystical mountains and the fabulous taste of that simple food, such memories! Thank you.
Thank you 😀
Did you put on extra weight there?
That's a very fascinating story, I'd love to know more, I'm an American who loves a lady from Yorks hire
The girl playing the fiddle. was awesome, more more please!!!!
I’ve gone back to cooking and eating like this the last few months and have actually lost a little weight. Notice how well balanced the meal is. And food prepared like this is very satisfying and filling, so you tend not to overeat or find yourself looking for snacks between meals. Great tutorial.
Matt……… I hope you realize how lucky of a man you are. When you’re lovely wife cooks like this when “it’s just the two of us eating tonight”, you are truly BLESSED.
My Father let me stand on a chair while he cooked us breakfast on the weekends, now I have fond memories when I make my grandchildren biscuits and sausage gravy with scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and bacon.
Pretty rare that I wish I had family. This made me wish I did lol. If I don’t cook ain’t no food to eat. Can’t imagine having someone make amazing southern food for me like this. Your husband is a lucky man.
Awesome food and I'm floored by the similarities! My Daddy's people came to Texas from a bit north of Florence, Alabama in 1839. I grew up eating "Purt'near" everything I've seen in your videos except Ramps... Thank YOU from the bottom of my heart for all your efforts at instruction and education!
18:16 You said it. Most people in cities have no idea what a good sun-ripened tomato tastes like. The artificially ripened tomato's they sell in grocery stores have ZERO flavor.
I only buy heirloom tomatoes at the grocery store. We can get really good tomatoes at the farmers markets too.
Amen to that
It’s so easy to grow tomatoes, even in a bucket on a little patio. I’m not sure why more people don’t do it. They’re so delicious when you pick them fresh!
When I lived in South Carolina, my friends who lived across the road introduced me to tomato sandwiches. Sliced tomatoes from the garden, salt and pepper, mayo and white bread. The best sandwich ever.
We grow a lot in the city, including all kinds of tomatos...especially tomatos.
This takes me back to my mom cooking with all burners going and the house smelling like love and warmth 😊🥰
Same here. My Mom did the same thing.
She was the ultimate Mom..
down home cook..
master at multitasking..
making lunches..
scrubbing floors..
mowing an acre of green lawns..
sewing homemade clothes..
made tons of macrame items..
etc.... the list goes on & on
My Mom's the Best. She's almost 80 now
💞🙏🏽💞
If I’m cooking more than 3 things, nothing is going to get done at the same time, chances are I’ve burnt one of the dishes and I’ve had to substitute most of the ingredients because I either didn’t have or cannot find what I knew I had in my pantry. I’m a mess.
"the house smelling like love and warmth".... Perfect description... Lookout Mt, Tenn was Heaven for me growing up. Mom and Grandma taught me how to cook. My wife never had southern food until she met me.
Yes😊I think that describes it exactly.
such a sweet heartwarming memory of your loving Mother...God bless you...
Last night we had family over, and one person had never eaten true Southern food. In all, there were 11 of us. I cooked a whole covered dish supper for them. Cornbread, baked macaroni and cheese, turnip greens, green beans, pan-fried okra, blackeyed peas, deviled eggs, tea, Cheerwine, fried chicken, biscuits. There's nothing I like better than cooking for a crowd of people.
Sounds delicious!
My beloved husband was born at home. It was dirt floor shack. His parents were sharecroppers in Southeast Missouri. He remembers eating beans and biscuits three times a day for years. He still loves beans. He didn't get much fruit except for government prunes. He loves all sorts of fruits now. He said when he left home to go work as a draftsman in the big city.....he could eat 3 bananas, 2 oranges and 3 apples for lunch. Tipper your dinner looks Dee-lisc-ous. I have a tendency to get high cholesterol. So I watch the amount of fried foods I eat. ❤
My husband would have one thing to say about this meal..."I'm in high cotton getting to eat such mighty fine vittles."
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My dad grew up extremely poor in New Mexico and was raised off of beans and potatoes for almost every meal and still to this day loves to eat beans and potatoes. Fruit was a Christmas present to them.
Fried corn, what a great memory of my grandmother “MaCox.” She was the best cook in our family and made the best fried corn. She always cooked it until it had some brown bits in it from the caramelized corn juice. She passed at the age of 98 in December of 2019, thanks for the memory.
My dad raised hogs to eat. I love cracklins
@@joycedallas1579 What is cracklins?
@@dona62851 pork skin
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@@joycedallas1579 OOOHHH YEAH...!!!...My grandaddy,could cook some of the best Cracklins
I've ever eaten in my life...but you don't want to be nowhere around when he started cooking those Chittlins...they stunk to high crap like a sewer...I can't stand those at all!...!!
This warmed my heart. I’m from west Texas but my Grandmother used to make meals similar to this in cast iron, made he miss her very much.
where at in west tx, i grew up in odessa
I was raised on this food and especially fried corn and I make it for my family and now my great grandsons call it Geges corn.
I remember my granny's cooking. She was from Applacia. The only thing was we didn't eat the striped meat, too salty. Watching your husband make his plate brought back memories, when he broke up his corn bread and dipped out the beans on top. Made me home sick for this kind of food. 😊 ps. I still make corn bread (without the cracklins) and fried corn with soup beans.
Matt is a blessed man he is eating like a king. I would have cut some raw onion up on those beans and cornbread.
More vitamin c than orange juice
I put Vidalia Onions IN my soup beans.
@@robbielynnhowlethehomestea8761 Listen to what she says about corn. Sweetcorn has not been 'tampered' with.
You’re so right! That tomato, soup beans and a big slice of a Vidalia onion. I could do without the squash but we could replace that with fried potatoes (I refuse to say ‘taters’) . Gosh, I just ate supper now I want THIS meal! And that crunch on your cornbread was just perfect!!
Mad I can appreciate what you're saying I'm from the Deep South are from Atlanta Georgia and we do to it really southern food there and everything is from scratch nothing comes from a package do not I will not eat processed food of any kind
I am writing this through tears. I have so many happy memories of my Grandmother’s fried corn!!!
I can remember the precious time I was alone with her.
Oh! I can remember every detail of her kitchen! But had no idea what she was actually doing. We would sing songs while she cooked!
I will never forget her cooking!
I am time traveling with you tonight!
What a feast! I am so grateful to you for showing how these legendary meals were created!
I never knew until now!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad you have those wonderful memories 🙂
Me too
Thank you so much for this great meal especially the fried corn. My mother would have loved this meal. Bless you & your family! RMH/Ohio
Aren't "grandma memories" wonderful? My grandma cooked food everyday for around 50 people at a county home. I don't remember so much about the food, but I do know those people ate well. My grandma passed when she was 86, and I was 50. That was ten years ago. Oh, how I miss her! So thankful for memories.
I'm blessed beyond measure that this is the food my family raised me on. My Granny was from Eastern Kentucky and our roots go back to the Carolinas. Steeped in beautiful food traditions, I raised 3 kids on garden foods, we canned, made bread, our own butter, jams and my husband hunted. We gave them a much of my Appalachian and his East Texas upbringing as we could. Brings me wonderful memories.
I'm from the Smoky Mountains NC and I still prefer Fatback to Bacon and Cats head biscuits or whole cake to light bread and buttermilk to sweet milk.
Fried corn, corn on the cob, cream corn were all my favorite memories of growing up under my mom and granny's cooking. AND silver queen corn was king at my dad's house. The only kind he planted, and he swore by it as the best. One year he planted about 40 acres of it, and let it turn to shell corn. We helped him shell it, then he took it to a Grist Mill in North Georgia and had it ground into cornmeal. We each [3 kids] got a 50 lb flour sack full of cornmeal for Christmas that year. If only I had a chance to re-live that experience.
My mom would fry the corn till it caramelized. We had many a meal of soup beans, sometimes with ham hock, and fried potatoes with sliced tomatoes and chopped onions.
Growing up on a farm in West Virginia "brown" pinto beans, fried potatoes, biscuits/cornbread was typically served at almost every meal and always something added to it from the garden and or some animal we raised or hunted/fished. I miss those days. Best food!! Especially cooked in bacon grease
Oh…that sounds like the perfect meal.
Now I’m homesick
Sounds like my MIL's childhood. She grew up in the hills of Kentucky.
That sounds amazing, I’m craving that right now! Your mom knew how to make her family happy for sure!
Lord my grandmother made meals like that. I miss her cooking so much!
When you pulled out the amber glass for the hot water I almost cried. Just like the cups my granny had in Mississippi, she'd make cornbread greens and black eyed peas for my mom every time she'd drop us off and pick us up for the weekend or school holiday week off. 💗
This brings back memories of my grandma making pan-fried zucchini and summer squash, skillet cornbread, and topping it off with sliced fresh tomatoes. My granny was the tomato and zucchini queen! Oh, goodness... now I'm thinking about those tomato (and sometimes red onion) sandwiches on homemade white bread with homemade mayo!
Always a tomato and an onion on the table, every meal. God Bless.
Goes good with everything 🙂
Save some for me!
We always had a slice of tomato and a sliced up cucumber (cut long ways) on the side of our meals when they were in season.
We had sliced cucumber also salt and pepper. Yummy. My granny would make a big pot of butter beans with sliced tom cucumber onion cornbread and honey.
@@annecampbell2058 we had cucumbers sliced into bowl with vinegar over them .... one of my favorites to eat with fried okra
Wish i could watch my sweet grandma cook like that again on her old wood stove. Everything just seemed to taste better cooked on wood fire by grandma. lol
I am from Louisiana, not Appalachia but you certainly wakened memories for me and actually cooked the same way I am passing on to my children. Thank you
I’d never seen boiled yellow squash until I joined the Air Force and had dinning hall food. I’d slip a little square of butter into it to help make it better. I grew up on fried yellow squash. I still cook it that way. That’s a mighty fine supper you cooked there Ma’am!
Mom was a true Appalachian cook and I hope that I do her dishes proud. She made a lot of fried corn over the years and we all loved it. She would cook it in bacon grease. She baked a pan of cornbread just about every day. When she was older and lived alone, she used a small cast iron skillet. Of course she broke out the big skillet when company was coming.
Good times…… great family memories!
Why did you leave her to live alone you mean american? I would have GLADLY lived with your granny. You didn't deserve her.
Ma'am, I was raised in Los Angeles California. Watching you cook all that wonderful food made my mouth water. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely recipes, and heritage.
Awesome comment!
Maque Choux is my favorite. This is the cajun name for smothered corn, usually smothered with bell peppers, onions and tomatos. My grandmother would also add pickled pork/salt pork or bacon. If she had some fresh okra, she would add that too. She made the best, she has been gone for 20 years now and I can still smell her cooking. I have modified her recipe to use sausage as the meat and the initial grease to get things cooking. My wife's mother would add shrimp and crab meat. Some good eating you have going there.
I've never ate it like this but it sounds great.
Watch this for the second time. Loved! Thanks Tipper. I grew up watching mama & grandmama making fried corn. We all loved eating with breakfast. I am now teaching it to my granddaughter. One day she will inherit my iron skillet that’s been in my family for 4 generations.
Thank you Alicia 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachiano
Memories again of home. The crunch of the edges of that cornbread. The sliced fresh tomato. The fried summer squash. And beans for sure with the cornbread. We didnt have fried corn as I think Dad preferred on the cob. All that's missing from one of my childhood dinners is Daddys green onions pulled out of the garden and sweet tea. How I would love to sit around that supper table once more with my family on a summer evening enjoying the food and each other. Thanks again for sweet memory. God Bless
What wonderful memories 🙂
You're right. Oklahoma country cooking and green onions is what my father ate with beans, fried potatoes and squash, w/ sliced tomatoes.
Oh memories in Oklahoma wilted lettuce with freshly pulled green onions from garden & cracklings corn bread & beans. I love salt pork my husband doesn’t.
That looks delicious
I loved the crunch sound when you sliced the cornbread. My grandmother didn't use cast iron for her cornbread because she was cooking for so many. She used a large cake pan that was warped slightly so that one corner piece of cornbread was thinner and therefore crustier than the rest. That was my piece growing up, as everyone else wanted thicker pieces. They just don't know what they were missing!
I love the crust too 🙂
When a woman I worked with told me that she had no cast iron cooking pans, I was shocked! I literally and truly did not know that cornbread could be cooked in any other pan than a black skillet! But I ate her cornbread, and it was good, so I got proved wrong on that belief!
@@CelebratingAppalachia yes, Ma'am, the crust is the best part. Well, the fat back, too.
@@lynlandham3779 Growing up in suburban Southwest Fort Worth, I don't remember seeing a cast iron skillet. My mother used several non-stick pans, and some average metal pots and pans.
@@CelebratingAppalachia When my grandmother would make cornbread, I'd only eat the crust, lol
I grew up on a farm in southern Michigan, about your age. I’m surprised to see how many similarities there are in country cooking no matter how far apart. Summertime meant silver queen corn (my dad would plant a full acre, at intervals, with the tractor. 😂 We didn’t fry it though. Also summer squash, tomatoes at nearly every meal. Which were also breakfast, dinner and supper, like you. And milk gravy with some form of meat year round. Thanks for the memories. 😊
Michigan sweet corn is the best!
Watching your video brought back some very good memories of my childhood.
The meal you prepared, was about identical to the meals my mother prepared, especially in the summer months.
Growing up my mother prepared three full meals a day, as my father came home for lunch daily.
My father was not a fan of “leftovers “, this included dessert. On average mother made two desserts nearly everyday.
She didn’t use prepackaged boxed anything. When making biscuits or cornbread, she never measured out ingredients. One of her pet peeves, being served a biscuit, bread or cornbread that wasn’t golden brown. She would comment, she didn’t care for blonde backed goods.
Mother was an amazing person, as well as a great cook.
Best regards
Near 75,000 people have fallen in love with you Tipper,and your family, and why wouldn't they.Our Appalachian Angel 🙂.That meal is fit for a king, that's country cooking at its best. Tipper Take Care and Have A Blessed Week 🙂.
Donald-I can hardly believe it. I feel so very blessed 🙂 I hope you have a wonderful week!
I agree with you Mr. Wells. Tipper became a friendly, encouraging, welcomed part of my week very fast. One video and I was hooked.....line and sinker. I feel like I've been to visit my closest friend after watching these awesome videos. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@peacefulwife5199 Isn't that the truth Sis,she brings alot of happiness to so many 🙂.
@@peacefulwife5199 You are so kind!! Thank you 😊
@@donaldwells2102 Mr. Wells yes...😊 I am my husband's caregiver, so I don't get much female companionship. My days, afternoons and evenings are very busy providing the care my husband needs. When I click on Tipper, or the girls videos, it's my time.
We love fried corn. My family is from Eastern Kentucky and cornbread, soup beans, fried potatoes, and fried corn were regularly on the menu. Most of my friends were not blessed with such simple food. Once I made a big batch of fried corn and froze it to take on vacation in September. My friends who were with us teased me about fried corn and tomatoes. "is that all we're having?" they complained. They were doubtful when I poured the corn over the thick slices of ripe tomatoes. As you can imagine, they were in love. Such a lovely memory.
I'm also from E KY and yes it's amazing
I sometimes make a "Hillbilly Feast"
and its all the food you said haha. I have not ever made fried corn but I have eaten it many times
Food fit for Royalty. Provided by the King Himself. Amen
I loved watching this. I am from CA, but lived in NC for a few years. Watching my bf mom cook, there was bacon grease in the rice. The green beans, and corn. I had been raised where you enjoyed the vegetables true flavor without adding anything. But man, did I love the fatback, and pork jowls. Collard greens and bacon, and grits! All things that were new to me. Everything you made looks amazing. I would scarf it in a heartbeat! Thank you😊 Much love from the west coast.♥️♥️
Your channel is like a warm memory of my daddy and maw maw they were from Asheville...the way she called her mom MOTHER...the comments about eating tomatoes plain with salt and cornbread and milk as a treat. It really brings it back and the accent sounds like my maw talkin. ❤
I'm glad we remind you of them 😀
My grandmother was from Tennessee, Johnson City. I remember fondly she would cook up Jiffy cornbread and black eyed peas with ham hocks, or stews on occasion. Real hearty meals. Lord, I miss her, but you remind me of her. She definitely is missed.
I'm from Johnson City! we ate this growing up as well!
My momma was from Newport and all my aunts cooked like this; delicious meals. My mom didn’t really do much of this, but we would have rice with milk gravy sprinkled with sugar. Anybody else eat it that way? She tried to teach me how to make biscuits but gave up. I have learned from watching CZcams videos. 😊
I was born in Johnson City, most of my family is from Elizabethton
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve craved just some black eyed peas cooked with a ham hock and corn bread with sweet iced tea for dinner. I was born in Atlanta, grew up in the panhandle and transplanted to Las Vegas and married a “northerner” from Michigan 😆 so I don’t get to eat like this very often. He and our son don’t like grits and we hardly ever ever eat pork 😞 I know, I know, I’ve tried. They just don’t care for it, and it’s just us so I don’t have a crowd to cook for, but they do love my fried chicken, so at least I can have that! 😂
I loved my mother's supper of fried corn, sausage patties, biscuits and gravy, cantaloupe and tomatoes.
Sweet memories.
My mom cooked the best fried corn. She used bacon fat & butter too. I can remember her putting little cornmeal in the skillet along with Milnot milk & there were a few small strips of bacon😋😋😋
My mom was from eastern Kentucky and growing up I remember having all kinds great dishes from the mountains. Simple but so delicious. Those cast iron frying pans can't be beat.
The older I get the more I appreciate how good a home cooked meal is and the effort put out by the cook for their family
I closed my eyes and could actually smell my granny's cooking. She's gone now and I miss her every day. What I'd do to have one of her buttermilk biscuits with some butter and honey or cane syrup again. She had bacon grease on most of her vegetables all her life and she lived to be 91.
Yep, my family on my dad’s side all lived well into their 90s and many even into their 100s unless they died of a weird accident, like my great uncles - one died being kicked in the head by a mule and one by a tiny cut on his arm that turned into tetanus. Almost all veggies were cooked with bacon grease and rendered fat was used in baking. All of the veggies and fruits were always fresh. But they all worked hard too. I think what we do with our time and how we treat our bodies outside of what we feed them is even more important than our diet and therein lies the bigger problem.
They rarely needed to go to a grocery store. All they bought pretty much was flour and sugar and making things like baking soda and baking powder. Everything else they grew and traded the surplus with neighbors that had chickens, pigs, and cows. They usually got a pig from a neighbor that they traded veggies with. They would smoke the big cuts and put the rest in their salt barrel. They also ate a lot of fish, crawfish, shrimp, crab, turtles, rabbits, duck, wild turkey, boar, and squirrels, which they caught and cleaned themselves. Cow meat was a luxury. Most steaks and sausage we had was actually venison. The only cow meat she would get would be the chuck roast and she made the best roast I’ve ever had and haven’t had any as good since.
I used to love when they processed the sugar cane. We'd chew on the stalks and dip them into the syrup, long in to the night after we should be in bed. I can still hear the squeaking as the horses walked in circles. Running around barefoot on the cool dirt.
@@TheFrugalMombot Key thing here: homegrown. It's the chemicals that are killing us from the pesticides, the fertilizers, etc. My family had many live into late 90's, 100's. Lot's of manual labor, they walked everywhere, and most of their food was homegrown.
My mom also put bacon grease on her vegetables and she lived to be 99.
I'm so culturally separated from Appalachian culture. I grew up in the inner cities of Los Angeles. But I'm so fascinated with peoples from all over the US and the world. I'm always eager to try their recipes. We ALL eat and so it always gives me this feeling of community and shared joy to experience their food.
That cracklin' corn bread....WHOOO! I'm on an almost all meat diet for fitness reasons. But every now and then, my body needs a carbohydrate bomb. I was scrolling through and came across this video. The cracklin' corn bread looked so easy, I had to pause the video and try it because I had all the ingredients. WOW it's so good! And so easy to make. I made it just like you did, but it's so simple, I'm sure it can be embellished with other ingredients if you got creative. I know this is an old video but thank you for sharing your culture with us!
Yay! So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 😀
I lost my mom and pop in the last few years. Hearing these videos and listening to your recipes bring me warm joy in a cold world.
May the Lord bless you and your family and reward your openness and sharing. Thank you for your videos and recipes.
I’m sorry you lost them!! Happy we remind you of them.
My dad’s side of the family are Cajun and my grandmother used to make this corn but she called it maque choux. I could never find the recipe for how she made it because traditional maque choux has the holy trinity in it, but I prefer it this way. The corn really shines. They also used to keep a huge barrel of salt in their bedroom where they stored their pork. I spent summers and thanksgiving with them and have so many great memories of cutting off a little of the fat back and tie it with a string tied to a stick and I’d go down to the ditches and catch crawdaddies.
We lived near some salt water marshes in Delaware when I was a kid. My biological mother would let some chicken pieces sit in an old cooler on the porch for a few days and get nice and rotten. Then we would go way out on a wooden boardwalk into the marshes, and sit on the side of it. We'd all have a long piece of spring with a chicken part tied to the end. We'd lower them in and catch blue crabs. After a few hours we'd have a big cooler full. That was dinner. We did that a lot, we were dirt poor. Later on I found out that marsh is in a State Park, and crabbing there is illegal! 🤷♀️🦀
ME TOO!! I used to go out back behind my grandparents house and fish for crawdads! They had a creek that flowed about 80 yards behind their house and Nana would find me a piece of old bacon (raw of course) and I'd tie it to a string - then I'd tie a big screw up the string about an inch. I'd go to the little bridge that went over the water (bridge is wooden, old and about 18 feet long - creek is about 12 feet wide - never more than 18 in. deep & usually more like a foot - all very tiny!) and sit in the middle, dangle my feet in if it was really hot, drop my line into the water and watch the crawdads come out from under the rocks to grab the bacon. Those little devils would really hang on, so I could pull 'em up and drop them in my bucket (which had a little creek water in it) for my Papa and Dad to use for fish bait. They'd just cut off the tails and pop the meat out, to put on their hooks. Ya know, we never thought to actually eat the crawdads! And I wish we'd tried it!! Lots of places do and I'll bet they'da been really great!! I did this from 5 to 9 yrs old. That's one of my favorite childhood memories and I had NO CLUE that other kids ever did it so THANKS for sharing your great story! 💙💙💙!
@@toniecat1028 oh this made me happy! Many say they’re similar to lobster, little land lobsters, but I think they’re even better than that. Now, we did usually flush the wild ones out by keeping them a few days and monitoring what they ate, as it improves the taste. Kind of like what you’d do with bull frogs for frog legs, as it pretty much eliminates any of the fishiness or you do similarly even grasshoppers or crickets if you eat bugs. I’m glad you enjoyed! Sounds like a wonderful day to me even as a grown woman. I miss it.
I am Italian , I have a deep passion for food and for history, those two passion combine together in a deep curiosity about the world and people’s different histories and experiences . I cook food from all over the world , my children grew up with so many different cuisines they now eat an incredible variety of foods , I am so proud of that ! Today I received ( from Amazon ) Edna Lewis’s ‘ the taste of country cooking ‘ that you recommended in a previous video , what an enchanting book ! I too have memories of cooking with my grandmother . Thank yiu for a lovely video 😀
JG - all great, and heartwarming. I wish you and your family the best. However, can I point out one ironic thing from your comment above ? You ordered a book from Amazon. Amazon is eliminating all differences, and competition. You tell of your curiosity for world cooking which I too follow, love, and try to cook. But Amazon will totally stifle that opportunity. They even standardize non-standard things. Please, get your future books from Mom&Pop bookstores where possible - when you travel, seek out local bookstores. Don't contribute to being an Amazon clone, even if they have a book you desire. Happy cooking.
I too am fascinated by foods from all over the world. Of course you Italians have some of the best! I learned to cook recipes from French, Chinese, Thai, Indian and Mexican cuisine, and a couple of your Italian dishes. I love the cuisine from my part of the world as well, the Southern United States. It's so rich and savory! I think it's as good as anyone's! ☺️
@@andrefasset3266 totally agree, I have never used Amazon and never will.
My mom attended Appalachia Teacher's College, and she grew up in NC, and so I have a special fondness for the Appalachia region, and am very familiar with many of styles of cooking that you do. My mom told me about life during the depression, and how cornbread, beans and greens helped them all survive - and that is actually very healthy food! Some young folks think they've discovered it! 😆 Thank you for your wonderful videos, and God bless you and your family ♥
My grandparents were from West Virginia.
One of my favorite meals, she made, was side pork, boiled potatoes, red kidney beans, fresh, white bread and real butter. A delicious salad of garden tomato, onion, cucumber, white vinegar, sugar, oil, salt and pepper.
When the jar of green chow chow came out, I almost wept. Appalachian cooking is old fashioned Maritime cooking.
I was just wondering what that was in the jar, that looks delicious
i INSTANTLY love this lady. it would be so fun with my kids to be at her house while she's cookin & readin stories on a stormy winter night. We live in the Bay Area California. i love her accent
Hon, you love her accent? That’s no accent, that’s original American down to earth language. No pun intended, but you Cali’s have no accent unless you came from Oklahoma. (Grin)
@@grams5025 I’m from Cali (LA) too…yes u guys (the south) talk different…it sounds like an accent…it’s mad soothing tho & food is love in any culture, accent, language, etc…I’m definitely gonna make me some fried corn one of these days!! 🙌🏼🔥
My Mom And Dad and everyone's in the family was from Alabama. My brother and I grew up on black eyed peas corn bread pig tails fresh biscuits and water gravy. Turnup greens boy after every meal I'd have me some hot corn bread and butter milk. That brings back such wonderful memories. My Mother and Daddy and my brother are all gone. I'm the only one left in my family. Thank you so much Ms Tipper for the wonderful memories.
My mother loved cornbread with buttermilk, too. I love most greens, but turnip greens are my favorite.
So glad you have those good memories 😀
This is also just a plain old southern meal…I’m from the low country and this is exactly what we grew up on. ❤️
I was not a fan of the chocolate gravy by very very popular..
I'm a low country gal too. This sure had my mouth waterin! 🤤
Happiest time of my life, standing on a chair beside Granny and rolling out the dough for dinner rolls. My sister and I were laughing yesterday. We picked two large trash bags of Malabar spinach and cooked it up, vacuumed sealed it and froze it for winter. It was a lot of work. But we were laughing about being little kids and just knowing that Granny and Gramps were conveying a very special “grown-up” privilege upon us when they let us pick the garden. We were so proud to be thus honored. :)
What a wonderful time you had with the spinach! I need to do that too 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia It was a wonderful time. We also planted the fall garden, but with the heat, we may have jumped the gun. I don’t know how much germination we’ll get. Anyway, we spent the day working and reminiscing and laughing. That’s as good as it gets for a couple of old gals. God is good.
My word, ma’am. That’s about a delicious of a supper spread I’ve seen in many years. Fried corn, tomatoes, fried squash, beans and cornbread. Makes me miss my mamaw even more. I’m so glad to have found you. Now have to look and see if you’ve got a fried okra video. Matt is a lucky man. But then, so are you to have all this knowledge about cooking the best foods.
when I was growinh up, my grandmother had qa dear friend named mrs, Ford. going to Mrs, Fords was always divine. She was Southerh and the best cook and storyteller. Mrs, Ford would plce a lot of her own gardens wonderful delihts on the plate. Judt like you also do. Raw onions slicd and salted cucumber lots of beets and olives. always so much fun to eat at her home. She NEVER LET US LEAVE WITHOUT PICKING KUMKWATS from her tree for us. I can still smell the aroma of her kitchen. Awwwww Memories.
I've never eaten fried corn. It looks like something I would really like. My dad will sometimes fry up a little salt pork to eat with his breakfast. Most of the time we use it to flavor soup beans. I don't eat it but I love a big pot of beans in the winter time with a big pan of cornbread. My dad makes the best corn bread, just corn meal and buttermilk. I crumble up a piece of corn bread, put some beans and soup on top with a little chow chow and I've got some good eating. There's a cooking show I used to watch all the time and when the lady cut corn off the cob, she would use a bunt pan. The hole in the pan would hold the cob while she sliced the kernels off with a chef knife. The kernels fell down into the bowl of the pan and didn't make a mess all over the counter.
Great tip! Thank you for sharing!
A BIG BOWL OF BEANS, CORN BREAD AND RAW ONIONS...
A REAL DOWNHOME MEAL ! 👍👍😁🇺🇸
I loooooove chow chow! I make a mean green tomato relish, an old family recipe that starts out “take 2 pecks of green tomatoes”…!
You would love it
that lady that used the bundt pan was Paula Deen.
I ate this exact meal made by my grandmother many times many decades ago in Arkansas. She even did her fried corn exactly as you did. The only difference in that entire meal was that she cut her squash differently because our fried squash were round. What an amazing meal. Brings back some wonderful memories.
Exactly ...
the only difference ...
We always cut it in rounds too!
@@Leslie-wb8cb We always cut it in rounds...time consuming...when we're in a hurry we cut it long ways like Ms.Tipper...just as good...
Thinking the same thing here in Texas.
My grandma used to grow leaf lettuce and we would go out to her garden and pick fresh pieces of lettuce and get some tomatoes off the vine and she would wash the lettuce up then she would pour a little hot bacon grease over it and drizzle a little vinagear on it and slice up the tomatoes and it was always so good! Not to mention she made cucumbers fresh from the garden with vinegar and sugar and onion they were so good. And when she made chicken and dumplings ( yellow corn meal? ) you were blessed if you could two or three of those dumplings! Simple and really good food. Back when food was actually real food.
That all looks delicious and the crunch on the cornbread is wonderful.🌸
Fellow Appalachian here from eastern KY. My mom was and still is a great cook. Never had fried corn but we had poke salad or lettuce and onions (leafy greens and green onions tossed like a salad with hot grease mixed in). For the meat we would almost always have pork chops. I love that you know how its done with the cornbread, my mom would do it the same way with warming up the grease and skillet prior to adding in the batter. Gives it such a great crust. And anytime we did have soup beans and cornbread (almost all the time), we would quarter a sweet or yellow onion and eat it with the beans and cornbread. If anyone has not had a home crown tomato fresh out of the garden they are missing out. And fried squash is a delicacy. Thank you for your videos and preserving what has been almost wiped out. I love the vocabulary, but Appalachia for me was about the peoples good hearts, the mountains, and the food.
We called the salad, a killed down salad
I fry squash or zucchini by cutting it into about 1/2 inch cubes adding salt, pepper, and cornmeal to coat Fry as you would fried okra. Much easier
My grandma always made fried corn, fatback and yes always sliced tomatoes. Thank you for one of my most missed moments with her. All of it looked delicious!!
My grandma and daddy were from Oklahoma and I grew up eating quite similar foods…love the cracklings cornbread!
I do remember my grandmother having a spread for us on Sundays when I was younger. We would drive from Athens to Comer after church to visit. All my aunts and uncles lived around my grandmother. Afterwards we would sit on the porch and talk about what we did that week. I miss these times.
Our family is from eastern Kentucky, our cornbread and fried corn were similar, our fried squash was cubed, and shaken in a paper bag, half flour and half corn meal. I miss our green beans the most.
We cut ours into rounds in East TN.
My husband is from Philly, the first time I made green beans, he asked me if I was going to cook them all day long, I said well yes, why wouldn’t I?
@@jo-clairecorcoran5783 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Right??? My husband thought the same thing the first time I cooked ‘em😁😆
Daddy's family is from South Eastern Kentucky. Grandma cooked like this.
My kind of supper..there's nothing like good country cooking.
It's so good! Thank you for watching Donna 🙂
Watching your videos makes me so hungry. I love how Matt loves and thinks you are the best cook. I know you are after watching all kinds of cooking videos. Watching you has given me the desire to grow my first garden.
Thank you! And Yay for the garden desire 😀
I was born and raised in the flat lands but we grew up on fried corn fried cabbage , corn bread , ham hocks and beans , 2 of my all time favorite foods are fried corn and fried cabbage !!
That dinner looks absolutely perfect. Quite similar to what my grandmother cooked in east Texas. She grew up on a farm in the early 1900’s. She cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of her 55+ year marriage. We loved eating any meal at her house. She always had a jar of bacon grease by the stove. And of course cakes and pies and really sweet iced tea.
Yum!.
I love east Texas 😍
Also grew up in east texas... and there is definitely a mason jar with bacon grease in it that sits right next to the crisco i use to season my cast iron lol.
That looked absolutely scrumptious! I love how he crumbled the cornbread and put the beans on top! And you’re absolutely right about tomatoes! I can eat them right off the vine with a little salt, or on a sandwich with a little Mayo. Nothing in the world better than homegrown! So sad when the season is done here.
Sorry fone actin up. Typos. I meant I thought I was only one are tomatoes like that
My memory of fried corn was my grandmother, she was from Virginia and made the best fried corn. Thank you for the memory❤
I just found your channel today. I surprised myself watching you cook... I found myself tearing up because your cooking reminded me of staying at Paw and Granny's house during the summers in Alabama when I was a kid. They've both been gone about 20 years now.. Thank you!
Welcome and thank you! Happy to remind you of good times 😀
I remember my oldest sister Kathryn making fried corn. She used a long wooden corn cutter that had a really sharp medal piece in the middle. And used a knife to get the corn milk. She made the best corn!! My momma always said that Kathryn cooked it better than her. I have that corn cutter in my kitchen. It hasn’t been used in a long time. But after watching you cook that corn, we just might have to get it out again!!🌺🎚🙏❤️😃
Yum looked absolutely amazing. That is a feast. Brought back wonderful memories of going to both my grandma's house. My grandpa had to have fatback on the table for almost every meal. He'd pour the grease over his corn bread or biscuits. He lived to the ripe old age of 98.
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That's funny! It sure brought back a good memory.
My brother always eat hot bacon grease sandwiches. He sure loved them and I sure loved him.
God bless all y'all
Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🥀🐴🇺🇲💚
There is nothing like the hills of Appalachia and a little literature mixed with good food. Thanks.
I was raised on Paris Mountain. This is exactly how we ate back then. You're a good cook/chef. Brought back memories of my Grandparents. TYFS
So thrilled to see you not leave food behind in the bowl. Gotta scrape it all out and don't waste any!.
That’s what must Aunt Mary always taught me. Never waste a bit!
I could eat this meal every day of the week and never, ever get tired of it, ever. Totally yummy traditional Indigenous fair. Corn, beans and squash, aka The Three Sisters. Plus some meat and tomato 🍅. Perfect for me 😃💕
if you ate this every day for 1 yr you would Die...that would make you more than Tired....youd be dead...not a Fan
@@1upthegreat I grew up in an Indian Residential School, we were forced to eat the same worm ridden mush three times a day. Stone cold. No protein and no sugar, very little fat or salt and we were forced to work twelve hour days at hard labour. After morning classes, taught by teachers who weren't even teachers.
Nothing but powdered skim milk to drink and we used to milk cows every day who's milk would be sold in the community for money for the government. I was in a government run school.
I spent my whole childhood undernourished, underweight and chronically hungry.
I was food deprived by people who believe in the food pyramid, or Canada food guide.
Before contact, with the exception of the pork, we ate much as these people ate, or they as we had done.
I no longer take very kindly to strangers who want to make a sway with regards to what I prefer to put in my body for food. I actually VERY MUCH prefer it if strangers keep their comments regarding my food preferences to themselves.
It would be even better if they climbed back on board their tall ship and made their way back to the U.K. where y'all undoubtedly originally came from in the first dang place. Same sort of bossy boots attitude. Real Doctrine of Discover outlook ya got going on there.
Loved everything Grandpa Jones cooked for us on Hee Haw! 😜 Your cooking looks and sounds just as delicious. Thanks for sharing!🥰
This video just popped up out of nowhere. I’m a black African American from East Texas. I grew up on food just like you prepare. I cut my corn and fry it basically like you do. So good.
Raised in N. Minn. This episode reminds me of my dad introducing me to fried cabbage as a little girl, I'm now 77, still love it. It seems to be a lost recipe from the Depression. He taught me to sprinkle it with vinegar lightly along w/S&P. He was Swedish and a great cook.
That sounds delicious.
"Kål är gott" means "cabbage is good" in Swedish. Greetings from Stockholm
🥰🥰🥰🥰fried cabbage 😋 is heaven on earth
Your Dad was a sweetheart 💕. I can tell by your comment
I made fried cabbage last night. I cooked them in the fat I crisped up kielbasa in, with onions and a touch of balsamic vinegar. They were so yummy!
This comment section is so wholesome. Food really does bring people together and it's amazing that we can sample a bit of every cultures cuisine of we want to try it. I feel blessed to be able to try different foods. My heart goes out every day to the truly hungry out there. 💗
I’m really enjoying the comment section. ❤️
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Hi Tipper- I'm not sure if you read these posts from your older videos but I recently discovered your channel so everything you've posted is new to me! I just wanted to tell you that you are a rockstar in the kitchen! I've watched several videos like this one, where you have every burner on the stove in use and you just keep cooking with so much ease and efficiency. It's incredible to watch and I am beyond impressed. The food you cook looks so delicious. I just wish that I could come over for supper! One love.
You are so nice-thank you 😀
I sure miss my mama's fried corn. 20 years later and i can still remember the smell and taste of it.❤
I so remember eating these meals at my grandma's house and my aunt's houses in eastern Kentucky and my Mom still cooks this way at 76 years old in Indiana. I still eat this way in the summertime in Indiana. I feed my kids and grandkids meals like this in the summertime. Best meal's ever.
My goodness , Matt and the girls have sure been blessed to have you cooking meals like that for the family. We have eaten most all of that up here in Manitoba Canada , but never had fried corn. You can guess what I'm going to try cook up. We have farmers markets here so when I get a chance to get to one , I'll be buying some corn. Thank you Tipper. I'm new to yours and the girls you-tube channels and enjoy them all. Wally
Thank you Wally! I hope you like the corn 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia cant imagine not liking any your recipes.
What a wonderful education of watching a different region of the country and their traditional dishes. Thank you for your stories and keeping your wonderful food alive.
Your cooking has made me so homesick for my grandma and mom. They are both gone but this is the cooking I grew up with.
I’m very glad to see another healthy-looking person cooking and eating with natural fat and butter. I’m in the state of Maine. Thanks
I'm 81 and live in Ohio. during the war my Mother somehow always got butter (for the table) as it was then rationed.
We never ate margarine after the war also, when it became popular.
My Grandmother, Mother and Aunts always made piecrust with lard (never crisco).
Nothing wrong with natural fats. My ancestors also lived into their 90's.
@@treelover4615 that is very interesting because I was thinking the American heart association would not like this at all. But your ancestors were doing hard outdoor labor all the time right? Grew up on margarine in the 1970s but I am back to butter now😁
I knew a gentleman who had been a lobbyist for some major “food” corporations like Nestle and Kraft back when our govt was telling us (via the food and drug admin. and the American Medical Assoc.) that real butter caused “bad” cholesterol and heart problems , overweight , etc. when they knew it wasn’t true . Just think , what a perfect way to make even more $ on feed corn than to take the oil from it , mix it with water and sell it for 2-3$ a tub , telling folks it was the “healthier alternative” ? Grass fed butter is one of the best things for healthy tooth enamel . Facts 😀
@@lisacolbert5987 I wasn't aware of your fact on Grass Fed Butter, but don't doubt it one bit.. But the story of the lobbyist misleading the FDA & the purposeful viliinazation of Butter infuriates me.
I love how clean your kitchen is and the cast iron pans you use are perfectly seasoned. You should have your own show on tv