Arsh Potato Cake in Appalachia
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- I'm sharing my all time favorite Appalachian dessert Arsh Potato Cake! Its so good! I also discuss other uses for Black Walnuts in Appalachia and beyond.
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When my newlywed husband and I went to the grocery store for the first time, I asked him to find the potatoes, bless his heart he came back and told me that he could'nt find the harsh taters. I had to show him where the Irish potatoes were. We still to this day get a big kick out of this. When we hit a rough patch along the way. We say it's just a pan of Harsh taters. We've been married 51 years. Bless our hearts
Lol...when my husband and I first married we were at the store with my mom she told him to get some streaked meat he never did figure it out.
@@kikimae1830 - 🤣 That’s really funny, I got a kick out of that! We called it streaked meat or fatback.
That's a sweet story. 💕
Oh, I love this. God bless y’all!
Although I had cooked a good bit before I married, I hadn't bought groceries. I moved to another state and I remember looking at the variety of potatoes in the store and reading the labels trying to find the Arsh variety! I just picked out the ones that looked most similar to what was used at home. They tasted close enough to what I was used to, so I've continued to use them. Never have found those Arsh taters since I left Georgia. This looks and sounds so good!! I'll have to try it. Thanks for all you do.
Crushed walnut shells are great for stuffing pin cushions. They are abrasive and keep the pins sharp and the traces of oil make needles and pins glide through fabric.
My grandmother stuffed pin cushions with her hair that she took from her hair brush. I still have a couple of them and use them.
Oooooh big brain
@@chynnavindiola58 nah, just stuffed full of random shyt which is mostly not relevant. It's a traditional filling going back generations.
Does the oil not stain the fabric?
@@peachy75019 it's not that kind of oily.
You do more to educate America on Appalachia’s history than any other Channel I’ve ever seen! And ma’am I’ve seen many documentaries etc and read every book i could get my hands on and YOU explain our history better than anyone or anything I’ve seen! Great job! If you ever need a sponsor for your channel I believe we’d be glad to help out!
Wow-that is so nice! Thank you 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia we are gonna have to nickname you the professor! LOL!!
@@americanaxetoolco2076 how about Appalachian Queen? 😊
My mama said “arsh” potatoes, and I was grown before I realized she was really saying Irish. I wouldn’t trade my childhood growing up poor and country in upstate South Carolina for all the world’s riches. It’s my heritage, who I am, and regardless of what some may think, skin color or race has never an issue, and still isn’t for the most part. But, you can find hatred and ignorance anywhere, not just in my beloved South.I’ve lived in many areas of this country I love and fear for the future of, and I was shocked at the racist talk and behavior I found in Michigan and other Northern states. That’s one thing I’ve learned in my 74 years of life - it’s not confined to one area as I was led to believe. And being poor, I grew up with black friends and neighbors. My mama, God rest her sweet soul, raised me to treat others as I’d like to be treated, and it has served me well. I fear for and pray for the greatest country in the world - - the United States of America - and being born here is a blessing. We’re all brothers and sisters in Christ and we need to unite, heedless of race or creed, and save our country from what’s happening right now! May God both Bless and Protect the USA. ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏
Working class neighborhoods are more united then rural or northern suburbs in Michigan. I am 61 and live 5 street north of Detroit. We are a mixed neighborhood and get along fine. Maybe we're just to busy to bother
@@lorashampine3522 That was the case in most of the industrialized north where most everyone had a good union job that wanted one. There were no lynchings, segregated lunch counters, and separate restrooms.
We southerners share a culture, belief in God and therefore the same values. Growing up I played with the black children down the road and their mama was so nice to me. I’d have moved in with them in a heartbeat. Their smaller house was so full of love for each other that’s all that mattered to me. I lived in a new subdivision on the outskirts of Memphis in 1959. On the other side of the road were cotton sharecroppers and their families. Nowadays that arrangement wouldn’t work there but we were children and just liked playing together. Oh how I wish the world was like that now.
One of my favorite memories of my grandma and grandpa is their incredible story telling abilities...you have this ability. I just can’t get enough!
Thank you for taking the time to continue.
Tipper I've started to think of you as my friend from Appalachia I guess because even though we lived in different parts of the United States our lives are somewhat parallel. To me, you are a dear friend. ❤️
My daddy was from West Virginia and we would always tell the story of how when he grew up and moved out of WV, he went to the store and was looking for Arsh potatoes and no one knew what he was talking about and he finally realized that they were called Irish Potatoes! I'm so thankful to have found this channel.
As someone in the UK, the name of this cake is quite funny. Now I wanna have a dinner party so I may ask folks, "would you prefer a baked arsh potato or a sweet potato?" 🤣
My family is from Wise County , Virginia. My dad was a coal miner. We always said “taters”. I do remember the stack cake you mentioned. It was dad’s favorite. Mom used to pick wild field lettuce, mix it with green onions and “kill” it with hot bacon grease. That along with cornbread and I’m in heaven 😊.
I love killed lettuce n onions. I love to eat them with soup beans, cornbread, and a big skillet of Arsh taters, lol
We call it wilted lettuce. We use leaf lettuce, green onions, bacon grease and vinegar. So good with cornbread ! It makes my mouth water to just think of it.
Mustard greens were done that way by my mother. Wilted in an iron skillet with hot bacon grease then vinegar (and hot pepper sauce if I remember correctly) served with cornbread (and sometimes with streak o'lean ).
Mix a little fried sausage in it good stuff
I was raised in Wise County, between St. Paul and Coeburn, Va. All my family were coal miners, so I wanted no part of the mines, joined the military and left the hills, but have never forgotten the ways we lived and the foods we ate. I'm an old man now, but I still love the food, and I cook it myself now. The killed (wilted) lettuce really brought the old memories back. Thank you for that.
My mother born in the 30's, left the mountains of Eastern Ky. {Townsend Mt.,Lee Co.} with her Mom and Dad and went North to Newport.Ky. seeking work...she had a babysitter that always fixed arsh taters...I have heard just about every word you speak of...I have cracked many a black walnut for cakes,hickory nuts,too. My Dad's Mom was the only grandmother I knew,she was a wonderful cook many of her recipes were just learned and passed down from Mom to daughter...she cooked on a wood stove when first married ,milked a cow,churned butter,kept chickens,gardened and canned everything,stored spuds[that was the arsh tater,and turnips. I live now where my parents lived {went out in the world} and came back to Clark Co.
What exactly are arsh potatoes the red one? The golden? Or the baked potatoes
Know anyone that was an armstrong or do you know which mountain was called onion mountain
I always waited until the green walnut hulls turned black and boiled them in a kettle of water and melted parrafin wax on the top and dipped my traps in until they were dark brown to black and there was no visible shiny steel. As you then lifted the traps free, they were lightly coated with the melted parrafin wax and worked fantastic even in the coldest weather. You can boil them in linseed oil and make a great walnut oil stain for wood and furniture
I love this channel and it takes me back to my maw maw and grandmother in northern Alabama. There's a wholesome Christian spirit while watching these videos. Thank you. I need this in this troubled world.
My grandparents were from NE Alabama🙋😊
@@wandabellamy9171 🙂👍
My grandparents are from Alabama also. There are some strong people from that state.
Think we all do ,
Tip, I've eaten your Arsh Potato Cake and it is really good! In addition to being so good it's also an attractive cake to look at. Any time I come by your house I make a point of looking around to see what you have baked that I can nibble on. You really are a wonderful cook!
Thank you Miss Cindy!!
That looks so good so I've saved it to try. My daddy was born & raised in Texas & always called then Arsh taters, so I grew up thinking they were called Irish taters. Shocking.... they don't sell Irish taters at the grocery store. hehehe. My mom's family is from Appalachia. My ex mother in law loved black walnuts & would gather tons of them. After helping her crack them, I can believe the shells would stand up to s turbine engine! Lol. I'm Choctaw, & had never heard, but loved the story of the Cherokee women using them to catch fish! Storytellers are cherished in native cultures as they pass the stories & traditions to younger generations. You are a wonderful storyteller!
My Mom would have loved this. She was “Arsh” and she loved black walnuts. Love your recipes! Thank you. ❤️
Poppy called them Arsh p'taters, but when he referred to our dark-haired Scots/Irish complexions, he used the term Black Irish and pronounced Irish in the normal way. I was probably in my late teens before I figured our Arsh=Irish. Great memory.
I have heard that same description of Black Irish used here in Glasgow by older relatives
Those Walnut Stories were so interesting.
I definitely want to try this Cake. Yummy 😋
My mother’s family came from Kentucky, I recognize your accent, you sound like my family! I love Appalachian cooking . You remind me of my mother.
Now, we call red potatoes 'arsh taters'. Never was any other color used by my momma or was brought into the house! Now, I also do the same. I'm 54 and just bought white taters for the first time about a year ago. It was soooooo weird! 😃😊🙂
Sure enough, I've been binge-watching and spending time with my mama and grandma in my thoughts and I kept thinking about grandma's arsh potatoes. And here you are with arsh potatoes! Blessings just keep dropping all over the place. Love your channel and all the great memories and education on a great place with great lives!
Love that!
This is my favorite cake that my grandmother made for us grandchildren growing up and haven't had it since, my beautiful bride noticed me watch you making it and surprised me with it on Valentine's day, thank you for sharing.
That is so sweet! I'm glad she made it for you 😀
We always had Arsh potatoes, along with sweet milk and light bread. One of my favorites as a child was arsh potato pancakes
My granny never had the privilege of school so she would say things like like that. A lump of butter and all. Bless her heart she was the smartest women I've ever known.
Too bad she didn't get the chance to go to school. Modern kids don't appreciate what they have.
So was my grandma from Kentucky
Them mountain Folk probabally. Smarter than most educated people.
More common sense and hard workers.
I’ve known too many educated fools. Fools doesn’t even come close to describing the idiocy they demonstrate. Good is evil. Evil is good. The word “science” is their god even if the result isn’t reproducible or provable in any manner. They don’t believe their eyes, they believe in “science”. If the science said the sky was purple but their eyes said it was blue, they would declare proudly that the sky is purple. I have no faith in today’s state sanctioned religion of science. Give me some common sense and faith in God!
My family is Irish, Scotch and German. My Grans side was pure Irish. Always potatoes for every meal. Potatoes make an excellent add in for cakes, candies and breads.
If you haven't, I HIGHLY recommend trying colcannon. We make it with leeks, a cabbage,kale and sometimes I toss in some bacon. Either boil or steam (Irish will steam them usually) along with the cabbage and kale. In a sepperate pan simmer LOTS of cream, butter and your leeks till they're tender. Mash the vegetables and add cream mixture. You really want a lot of cream. It should be a tad loose at first. Then you turn heat on low and slowly cook till thickened. Then add bacon. And more butter.
We eat this on its own w some soda bread or homemade white bread. It's the perfect comfort food meal for the dead of winter.
Kids love it. They all do.
Another awesome video , Yep Arsh Taters were a staple at our house when I was a kid. My kids use to love to go spend a day with grandma cause she would fry them a Arsh tater . That cake reminds me a bit of the cake Mama would make at Christmas every year , It was a Raisin Nut cake , It had chocolate layers that had nuts and raisins cooked in them the it had a toping similar to the one you made in this video. My banjo picking buddy has a sheep farm , his wife spins wool to make yarn . She uses natural ingrediencies for die and black walnuts hulls it one of those she uses. I have also seen a video where a person soaked walnuts hulls in water , then he would pour the water out to gather worms for fishing , As the walnut water soaked into the ground the worms would crawl out to try to escape it. :-) Have a blessed day :-)
Arsh was calls by my granny mama Daddy . Fried tatters . Words and conversations Brings so many memories . Gods bless you . Do you have a cook book.
Carol-Thank you! Not yet but hopefully soon!
I live in upstate s.c, we use a lot of phases and words you do. My grandma was born 1898 she passed away in 1989. I still talk the way she did.
My sister in law is from upstate SC and taught me about mashed potato candy! Same idea as this. :)
Looks very good! 3rd time I've heard people using potato in desserts. Also reminded me of black walnut filled cookies I used to help an elderly church widow friend (Sis Smith she was more Indian than I was) make when i was growing up. I'd stay overnight w her, she had no indoor bathroom, would have the basin to wash off with and an outhouse. She would roll out the dough, and we'd get the filling started and I'd stir, then we'd sit down and fill them and pinch the 2 layers closed and bake em! I need to make them again! She was such a godly woman and could really sing!💖🎶
New subscriber here....today you made me think of endlessly picking out hickory nuts, for Mother’s hickory nut cake. She used the perfect halves to edge around the icing,, a real showstopper! We picked out kajillions of black walnuts, and butternuts, too. The walnuts stained our hands something turrible, we had to scrub with Daddy’s Lava soap!And I love to frame old, old handwritten recipes!
Mix equal parts oil, flour, and shortening together, and coat the pans with this mix. Your cakes won’t stick on you. I use 1/4 cup of each, and store the mixture in a bowl in the cabinet. It doesn’t go bad on me because I use it so frequently, but if you don’t bake often enough; just mix 1 TBSP of each, and you won’t have it go rancid on you.
love black walnuts for the arsh cake. I use black walnut flavoring in my hershey's fudge candy and it takes it to whole different and delicious level.
Loved hearing about this amazing recipe and the history that I know too well of 'Arsh Taters'. We had a white walnut tree up the holler a piece a d as much as I loved the black walnuts, nothing taste better than the white walnut kernels. Gathering and using them in fudge and buttermilk candy. Thanks for sharing!
My aunt would make the best black walnut cake.So delicious!
Thank you for the memories of a mashed potato cake my grandmother made when I was a kid. I miss her dearly.♥️
I love this! My grandparents always called "regular" potatoes Irish potatoes. I still do when I'm trying to differentiate Irish potatoes from sweet potatoes. :)
My grandma called them white potatoes thinking she needed to teach her city grandchildren the more modern terminology.
It still just blows me away how our Irish ancestors made do with the most humble of ingredients, raising them to something truly heavenly. One of my Aunts did a lot of research into our Irish family history and she actually found records of where our folks got off a ship in 1736 (BEFORE the great potato famine) at Ellis Island and I could be wrong, but I believe that was before it was even known as Ellis Island.
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. You’re saving some truly heirloom recipes. 🇺🇸❣️
Yes, you are right... Ellis Island came much later.
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My grandmother's hands were always blackened around Thanksgiving and Christmas from cracking and shelling black walnuts. Her mother, who was from Philippi, WV, had taught her to make Black Walnut cake and a cookie called Black Walnut Cresents. My grandmother had a black walnut tree in her yard, but it did not produce enough walnuts, so every Fall, her grandchildren would visit her house in the far out country, and we would walk through the woods to a black walnut grove and gather more walnuts. It was set off from most of the other trees. Apparently, black walnut trees are toxic to some other trees. My grandfather blamed the demise of a six tree peach orchard on their black walnut tree.
Used the ground up shells in my sand blaster, they would clean everything including the skin right off your hand!
Wow, I grew up hearing my mamaw call them "arsh" taters. Awesome !
Me too
@@DennisRay99 Mt. Carmel TN. You ?
@@AllenGoodman My family was from Corbin KY
My grandmother in Alabama too.
It was that or sometimes white potatoes. Never just plain potatoes for Granny she had to be exact.
My husband was partially raised by grandparents in North Alabama and he says things like Arsh potatoes, light bread, sweet milk.
We still use that to clean our turbo chargers aboard deep sea vessels! It makes the whole engine room smell like roast chestnuts!
Thank you so much again Tipper!
I am learning so much about my heritage from watching your channel.
I am almost 90 Arsh.
That was so cool to learn!
When I did my ancestry kit. We are always told we were Cherokee and Osage.
I told my dad recently that know we are not Cherokee.
He doesn't believe the new fangled things.
Let sleeping dogs lay. 🤗
I'm so glad you're enjoying our videos!
This cake is a keeper!!!
Thank you for the Cherokee story too.
We didn't have access to black walnuts where we lived when I was growing up, but mama always put black walnut extract in her special chocolate cake.
My dad called potatoes this for as long as I can remember but I’ve never heard of this cake until now. Interesting.
Exactly same experience. ‘Arsh’ vs sweet. Inexact measurements. Orally traded recipes. Bringing cuttings of their favorite flower, bush, and tree to family that lived a way off while visiting. Never go visiting empty-handed!
Tears flowed hearing that word again, Arsh Potato. So many memories of hearing my dad talk about Arsh Potatoes that had slipped my mind until now.. ty
OMG! I've been driving myself nuts trying to figure out what arsh potatoes are after you talked about your mom's childhood thanksgivings on another video. Now I know! New subscriber here, really enjoying your content!!
Looks sooo good! I have gluten allergy and don’t eat much sugar but love watching your cooking and listening to your stories. Our family is from Texas but I still am comforted by your channel. Wait up though-isn’t your favorite Chess Cake? Thank you!
My aunt made the best tea cakes, and her big gallon glass container always had tea cakes. My uncle was a pastor and they lived in the pastorium next to the church. It was not atypical for church members to help themselves to my aunt’s tea cakes when they came to church.
Aaawww my grandmother use to make me tea cakes
I also love chesnut Turkey dressing,,we usually boiled them or roasted em ,,best ever ,,wasn't none on the tree this year I hope it's full this up coming spring ,,we didnt even have no walnuts ,,,u all like beachnuts or hickory nuts
Tipper, I LOVE Your videos,recipe,readings, stories, approach!! Much more entertaining than ANYTHING on the t.v.- wish I was a t.v. Executive cuz You and Your family would have a NUMBER ONE Variety show! Thx for sharing! Bless Up and Blaze On!
Oh, the expression "sweet milk". Very common in my childhood (1930-1940's). I continued to use the expression well into my adult years. Apparently it's not used around where I now live. I ordered "sweet milk" in a restaurant and the waitress wanted to know what "that" was!
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This cake is new to me. It looks wonderful. I love Black Walnuts too. The stories you shared were great. My cousins who lived “down in the country” as we always called it, were from a tenant farming family. They cracked and picked out black walnuts and sold them.
My moma made these every year at Christmas! It was an Arsh tater cake.Moma was born in the 20s and from deep south Ga. ! ❤
I thought my grandma was saying arch potatoes! So she must have been saying arsh!
My dad (from Scott County, Virginia) always said arsh potatoes, and I was grown before I knew why. Precious memories!
So glad to have this recipe, A friend of ours we called her Aunt Melba used to make this for holidays. I never was able to get the recipe. Hers had golden raisins in the cake. I remember her cutting the raisins in two with scissors before she put them in the batter.
Yep as a kid growing up we called it an Irish potato. You know what else I got mixed up was the yam and the sweet potato.
Yams grow on a vine, sweet potatoes grow under the soil.
The only place to truly get a yam is African or an African grocery where they actually import them, grocery stores etc....get it wrong all the time and call sweet potatoes yams, the canned candied yams, not yams, sweet potatoes, everything we fix for the holidays etc....are sweet potatoes, Google what a yam actually looks and tastes like, most Americans would not recognize a true actual yam....very different in appearance and taste
Kind of funny how when I was growing up a potato in a stew or soup was always called an Irish potato,but potato cakes or breakfast potatoes or any other use wasn't called Irish potato,it was simply called potato...though our family was a long way from Appalachia I find it interesting how the language has so many similarities!
Love your necklace... my great granny was Appalachian and I remember her saying “arsh”, I sure miss her!
This is what my German grandmother called a dump cake. All kinds of dump cake recipes are out there, but this is the one my gramma made in a Bundt pan, and this icing she also used in both the dump cake as well as the German Sweet Chocolate cake she always made.
Thank you for this great video! I use black walnut powder in a healing foot powder, it's great for athletes foot.
Just looks like an absolutely wonderful cake and I can imagine why it's one of your favorites
When I was growing up, we had a black walnut tree in the yard. Every fall we would go out and get as many as we could to bake with. That tree was right outside my bedroom window and the smell of the outer shell would start to stinking about the time to gather them up.
My father would bring home crates of them during my childhood. We live in the Northeast. They were wonderful! Much sweeter than the cultivated walnuts. The nuts were also smaller and took some digging to remove from their shells but well worth the effort😋 Fond memories of him cracking them open with a hammer for us kids ❤❤
Amazing stories too. Thank you.
Looks wonderful. Thank you for the post.
I love the stories❤️
I could be wrong, but I think the cocoa is there to provide the acidity needed to react with the baking soda, since there are no other acidic ingredients. Usually, a cake recipe that uses baking soda will have buttermilk, sour cream, yogurt, or some other sour ingredient to interact with the soda.
You are a true BLESSING, THANK YOU so much for sharing, we all are so spoiled now we all do not understand how good we got it
Thank you for the cake recipe it looks yummy 😋 I can’t wait to try it
My grandma called them arsh potatoes- I miss her so much I’m 69 and I’ll be making some Of your recipes thank you again
That looks so yummy! Thanks!
This is amazing.
Yes I did,thanks for sharing 😁
Thank you for the recipe and the stories behind some of the uses of the nuts. How interesting.
I’m from South Georgia, and my grand parents say things like “warsh rag”. And they tend to add “er” to everything like winder or yeller and my favorite momer
Alexander Sharpe , my family said the same things, and wasper. Bless the ones that have gone.
Just remembered another word that was said-- alkeyhall.
Did they add the er to names? I grew up hearing names like Riter for Rita, Neater for Juniata, Edner for Edna. I miss all those long gone folk, wish I could sit and listen to them talk today.
My great grandma, Edna, who was from Georgia was called Edney. A cousin from Alabama named Ida was called “Ider.
Same, we cleaned our clothes with a warsher & dryer. We ended a lot of words with a soft 'a' --- Colorado was Colorada, Missouri was Missoura,
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I love tater cakes. My mom used to fix them sometimes.
Black walnuts are abundant here and I'm always looking for new recipes! Thanks for the ideas..
Yeah for u
So very interesting and you always keep things entertaining +++ educational. Thank you. 😊
I’m going to make this. Sounds amazing!
I can't wait to make this delicious cake!
You are so sweet, thank you for explaining and sharing.
You are so welcome!
Love this recipe.
Very interesting stories and uses for Black Walnuts will try this cake also thank you for sharing x❤️
Love your videos - and your accent takes me back the the Great Aunts of my childhood. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Another awesome recipe! You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep making these wonderful videos. May God richly bless you and your family.
Thank you so much!
I love the definition’s/description’s. So awesome. Thank you for the recipe and the great history lesson. Blessings from Texas Dee in NM
God loves you. You are so blessed. Thank you for sharing your life.
Looks so good thanks enjoyed.
Watching your channel is a joy!
Thank you!
Yum yum sounds good
I love black walnuts! I'm looking forward to trying this cake. Thank you for sharing.
I finally got ahold of the makings to fix this cake and I know it's going to be delicious. Thank you very much Tipper.
I’m loving this channel so much! Thank you for this wonderful recipe.
Peri-so glad you enjoy our videos!!
My great uncle carved little rocking chairs from uncracked walnut shells. He made me pair of earrings. I use the green walnuts to dye wool a beautiful brown before spinning it.
We used the same icing recipe for mom’s German chocolate cake when I was a child. My neighbor puts this icing on her oatmeal cake.
Nocino is an Italian liqueur traditional for Christmas. When the walnuts are still green and fuzzy on the tree, you cut them in half and soak them in any type of spirits with cloves and cinnamon. Well it’s a process. But my husband made it and it’s delicious.
That cake looks delicious! I'd love a slice with a nice cup of tea.