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“Nobody wants to take the time to make it, but they’ve all got their hand out for a jar.”
― T.J. Smith, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery

“Skin the corn with homemade lye. Cook corn by boiling. Cook dried beans. Put corn and beans together in same pot, cook some more. Add pumpkin if you like, and cook until pumpkin is done. Add to this a mixture of cornmeal, beaten walnut and hickory nut meats, and enough molasses to sweeten. Cook this in an iron pot until the meal is done. Eat fresh or after it begins to sour. Some of this may be fried in hot grease. This mixture will not keep very long unless the weather is cold.”
― T.J. Smith, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery

“Parching corn—shell dried corn off the cob in the fall or wintertime. Toast it in the oven like parching peanuts. It”
― T.J. Smith, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery