Seasonal Old-time Cooking and Housekeeping From a Vintage Western North Carolina Cabin
If you were a kid and you went to my grandmother, Maudie’s house in Salem, WV in the 1960s, you’d spend a fair amount of time on your back, on the floor, admiring the under-the-chair art gallery in her “front” room. You wouldn’t have a piece of pie with you, but there’s […]
It was 47 degrees in our bedroom this morning. And not much less than that outside. Our bedroom is in the uninsulated 1880 part of our house which we don’t even bother to heat. We just pile on the quilts and snuggle down. Our sleeping arrangements aren’t much different that those […]
Last weekend, girls were weilding axes at our log cabin next door. As in “handling a weapon or tool with skill and ease.” You must do that in order to cook on a wood cookstove, and that we did at our Ladies cookin’ on a wood cookstove class. Most of […]
The fall colors are hollering here in our mountain holler. Time for a picnic. And some cooking classes that include Thanksgiving pie of course, and hand-hewn make-do vintage style holiday gift making. Not to mention cookstove cookin’. What’s a picnic without apple-cider-caramel mince pie? Stay tuned for apple-cider-caramel next week […]
YIKES!!! Almost burned the fapple tart while writing a post about the Ladies Cookin’ on a Wood Cookstove class. I’ve been cooking on a wood cookstove since I was 21 and that’s been a few years. A lot of years, actually. And a lot of cookstoves. Anyway, since a bunch of ladies have been […]
Oh rhubarb fig jam-spread, please don’t leave me. There are only three of you and one of you is half gone now. I am already heartbroken. OK, I’m not THAT heartbroken because I have learned to make rye bread on which to spread you; and when you are gone, I will still have Rye. As much as I’d actually […]