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Appalachia

Tanuki

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3. I miss hand-cranked ice cream, cornbread made in the special cast iron pans shaped like

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 01:54 PM

Apr 2014

rows of corn ears, half runners either right out of my uncle's garden or from my grandmother's canning jars all winter long, sassafras from our back woods, pawpaws from granny's pawpaw patch...and most of all, I miss the beloved people from older generations of my family who shared these with me but who are now gone....

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Old-timey foods that I miss [View all] theHandpuppet Apr 2014 OP

Thimble berries off the vine JimDandy Apr 2014 #1

Bake Bread Like A Pioneer In Appalachia ... With No Yeast theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #2

I miss hand-cranked ice cream, cornbread made in the special cast iron pans shaped like Tanuki Apr 2014 #3

Do you like pole beans? theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #5

Yes, but then I am fairly promiscuous in my appreciation of beans. Tanuki Apr 2014 #6

How many of you folks have eaten paw paws? theHandpuppet Apr 2014 #4

If you don't know beans, you don't know Appalachia theHandpuppet May 2014 #7