25 Depression Meals Appalachian Grandmas Fed 8 Kids On

🔗 THE MOUNTAIN PANTRY BOOK — 120 Depression-era Appalachian meals, written down at last: [LINK] Every recipe on this list plus 95 more, with the week-by-week feeding plan that made them work. Most people make the $9 back on the first grocery trip. My grandmother fed eight children through the Depression on sixteen acres of rock, and she never wrote down a single thing she cooked. She died in 1989 and most of it went in the ground with her. What is in this video is what I watched, standing at her elbow, from the time I was four years old. Number nineteen is a plant most people poison out of their fence row every spring. Number seven fed ten people for about eleven cents a head. And number one is the meal she made every night of her life and never once served to us — I did not understand why until I was fifty. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:12 25. Fried Potatoes and Onions 02:07 24. Mush and Fried Mush 03:00 23. Egg Gravy 03:52 22. Poor-Do Gravy 04:47 21. Hot Water Cornbread 05:40 20. Potato Soup 06:35 19. Poke Sallet 07:32 18. Killed Lettuce 08:24 17. Creasy Greens and Pot Likker 09:20 16. Kraut and Dumplings 10:15 15. Cushaw 11:08 14. Fried Apples 12:02 13. Leather Britches 12:58 12. Sorghum and Butter 13:52 11. Squirrel and Gravy 14:48 10. Hominy 15:50 9. Souse, Liver Mush and Cracklin Bread 16:48 8. Cornmeal Dumplings in the Bean Pot 17:42 7. Chicken and Dumplings 18:40 6. Vinegar Pie 19:35 5. Stack Cake 20:38 4. Blackberry Cobbler 21:36 3. Soup Beans and Cornbread 22:40 2. Biscuits 23:45 1. Cornbread in a Glass of Buttermilk 25:12 Final Recap 26:25 Next Video Preview A word on safety, because I will not leave this out. Pokeweed is genuinely toxic — the root and the mature plant most of all — and poison control centers still take calls on it every spring. This video describes what was historically done in these mountains; it is not a recommendation that you go and do it. The same goes for lye hominy: lye is caustic and dangerous. For current home food preservation guidance, follow the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning and your state extension service. Appalachian food history, Depression-era cooking, and the skills that came out of these mountains — written down before the last of us are gone. Subscribe for new videos every week.