A Traditional Appalachian Breakfast and How to Make Sausage Milk Gravy & Fried Apples

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[@lochamb1234]

I'm from the UK, I live in Northern Ireland and I am fascinated by the food you eat. Much of what you eat, we would never eat or you make combinations we would never dream of putting together. Absolutely fascinating. Watching channels like yours, have given me much inspiration on how to change up what we eat..and I've developed a love for pinto beans 🤣

[@birddog7492]

Pinto beans are great with corn bread and butter. I live in WV and the foods you see here is authentic to our area. However, I use buttermilk to make biscuits. and just a little cooking oil in my mix. you want your doe a little dry and be careful not to over work the doe. preheat your oven to 350 degree F And cook until the tops are golden brown. Best of wishes I hope you give this a try.

[@redfaux74]

Loch - When you have gravy and biscuits like this.... you'll NEVER be the same. It turns breakfast into something heavenly. It's love in a spoon. You'll tell everyone you know about it. Looks disgusting. Smells incredible. My mother's side cooked like this every morning and the smell will drag you out of bed and put you in a mood you'll have memories with.

[@redfaux74]

@@birddog7492 - I would like to ask you if your male or female before I get carried away with my next question. It matters. 🤣🤣🤣 And how old of course. 😕 I just can't see marrying a 12 year old female at my age. Buttermilk in biscuits?!? Do you know anyone who broke this Law? 😟

[@barbarasue7191]

So what is different that Irish eat? The only place I've ever wanted to travel is Ireland. Can't afford though. I'm interested.

[@princessoffire1107]

I almost cried watching this. This is how I was raised to cook and always did until I became disabled and can't any longer. But, I made sure my son knows how ! Thank you for showing the world how and what you do. Unfortunately it's becoming a lost art, but people like you are keeping it alive.

[@heysally13]

I didn't realize how much I missed watching my grandmother make breakfast. She's been gone almost 30 years now. She grew up in Hendersonville and cooked just like you. Thank you for your videos.

[@DavidShockley]

This took me back to my Granny cooking breakfast every single morning that we stayed with her as children in West Virginia! To this day, I can't seem to replicate her mastery in the kitchen! She also made the best dinner rolls that I've ever had, and I've never been able to clone them. Unfortunately, the recipe was lost with her, and I can't for the life of me figure it out. As an adult, I've owned my own bakery, filmed with Food Network stars, and had our wedding cakes appear on magazine covers like PEOPLE magazine, and yet - NOTHING that I've accomplished comes close to my Grannies cooking! :)

[@canddysaunders7178]

But your kids or grandkids will say the same about you if you not try to pretend or impress, just pure love and time to share with them. I wish you the best in your culinary business and when doubt, think what Granny will do.

[@mslaurelms1]

It might be Angel Biscuits that you're thinking about.

[@DavidShockley]

@@mslaurelms1 Angel Biscuits? Now I have to look those up! Thank you! :)

[@cindypressley4285]

Tipper, that is a fine breakfast, a traditional country breakfast. In years gone by the apples would have come from their own trees, the eggs came from their own chickens, the sausage would have come from slaughtering their own pigs, the honey from their own bees and the jelly homemade from their own grapes. We were a self-sufficient people. This is the way my grandmother did things. It was not an easy life, they worked very hard.

[@oldschool3372]

Not every one has given up the old ways ,instead of honey we make sorghum molasses, even the milk and cream comes from our milk cow

[@rosespurlock4788]

I had someone who was talking about living off grid, raising all food, etc, say he couldn't wait to buy his land so he could make s'mores over a wood fire everyday and not ever have to work again. I was raised in Tennessee in a two room shotgun house along with my 9 brothers and parents. I was thinking to myself, Lordy this man is in for a shock! I had bigger shoulders and muscles than most male school mates from packing water up hill every day, clearing land, howing weeds, packing wood and coal, etc. Even kids work every day. It's a must. Honestly it was all we knew so we never gave it a second thought. But yes, it is a lot of work!

[@Thehubb1]

What century are you in

[@kofola9145]

@@Thehubb1 The past one and maybe the future one as well.

[@Littlepaw7]

And if you didn’t have something your neighbors did💞they bartered a lot when I was a kid. My dad would leave fruit with our neighbors and they would put up several jars of whatever jams or jellies they were putting up for us.🌻🫶🏼💞community supporting small businesses and one another.

[@jawheeler9719]

Tipper! I just want to let you know that I’m a young lady (of 30)who lives in southeast Ohio and I’ve been watching your channel (and your daughters channel too) since this summer and boy has it been an eye opener! I’ve always grown up doing “old timey” things. My summers were filled gardening and staying suffering hot days with a grandma who refused to have anything but antenna TV or air conditioning. I’ve spent many hours at antique power shows and square dances… I never thought it unusual until adulthood. It was then I realized few children were raised in the manner I was. Your channel has explained SO much to me the “why” behind the food, traditions and language of my family. I never thought I had a culture until you! So, a big hearty thank you for explaining , MY Heritage!

[@larahanson7196]

Hello I am in southest ohio too

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

We appreciate your support! So glad you're enjoying our videos 😀

[@countycalling]

I just moved to Central OH from southern Ohio.

[@usauditresponse]

Southern Ohio 54 year old man here. It took sometime to realize that this was my culture. Copied from a post Iafe earlier Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples

[@strawberrychampagnechica1193]

I live watching her channel too! I grew up in Nebraska but my dads family lives in SE Ohio. I spent two weeks every summer with grandparents helping with huge gardens and eating food from cast iron skillets. Fried green tomatoes, homemade noodles, meatloaf, biscuits & Tracey, sausage, stewed tomatoes, cucumbers, eggs fried in bacon freeze, pinto beans & fried potatoes

[@VTHokies1987]

Biscuits and gravy is at the top of the list of my favorites for breakfast. My mouth got to watering just watching this and hearing the sizzle of the sausage was almost too much!

[@redfaux74]

Same here. Floods me with memories of a lot of grandma's and aunts passed and gone.

[@marthamorgan2815]

I used your recipe for sausage gravy and biscuits tonight for supper. I crumbled the sausage up in the gravy instead of doing the patties. ANDD let me tell you! The absolute best I've ever had. My husband made several compliments about it. My mama passed away a couple of years ago and there are so many recipes and things I wanted to learn to cook from her... biscuits and gravy were at the top of the list. This was a bigger deal for me. Thank you so much sweet lady! Much love from South Georgia!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Wonderful!! So glad you enjoyed it. I'm so sorry you lost your sweet mama!!

[@beckyoneal738]

I started making breakfast gravy, biscuits, sausage and eggs when I was five years old. I will be 70 tomorrow. I love buttermilk biscuits, but I also liked the idea of her “two ingredient” biscuits, so I will try these! This young lady really knows her way around an Appalachian kitchen and cast iron skillet!!!

[@pamelanapierrice1394]

Made biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon ,and fried apples this morning for my family for breakfast in my part of Appalachia- Southern Ohio.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That's great!

[@horticultureandhomes]

An awful lot of Appalachians wound up in OH, MI, and IN working in the auto industry back in the 50's.

[@pamelanapierrice1394]

@@horticultureandhomes yes, I had family that did that. I actually live across the Ohio River from Huntington Wv and Ashland Ky. My family is from Virginia/ W. Virginia and didn't go far from there.

[@0Hillbilly]

I grew up in Lavalette, now im in Wisconsin. It's German sausages here so I order mine online. I miss the hills. God Bless.

[@pamelanapierrice1394]

@@0Hillbilly I understand missing the hills. I think it's in us hill folks dna. 🤔

[@gracelandone]

I’m sitting here remembering what the intermingled smells of country sausage and frying apples are like and I have to say it’s enough to make me cry. Thank you for bringing this back to me. Sometimes it’s the simplest things.

[@tashabr801]

I can smell the sausage. Yummy

[@donia1]

Same, it makes me miss my Gran so much

[@mgb5170]

I love how your husband shows everyone how to plate the way he likes it!

[@christophermaggard9917]

My Appalachian Pippa, always gauged his breakfast by fried apples, if he had them he had a good breakfast!🐶🐱🐈

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that 😀

[@lorchid23]

Breakfast like this is the reason that breakfast has always been and remains my favorite meal. I even like breakfast for supper. Tipper, you’re one heck of a cook! 💯🇺🇸❣️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 You're so kind thank you!

[@MysticHeather]

Same here!! Breakfast is the best! Biscuits n sausage or chocolate gravy 😋

[@lorchid23]

@@gailcurl8663 - I bet you were a real riot at that one party you got invited to all those years ago. 🤣

[@kajem575]

@@gailcurl8663 When was your last history lesson? 🙂✌❤ 🙈🙉🙊

[@kajem575]

@@lorchid23 👍😆 🙂✌❤ 🙈🙉🙊

[@oldschooljack3479]

Bittersweet memories. Fried apples were a staple of my grandma's Sunday dinner. Sometimes we had ham, sometimes chicken, sometimes roast beef... But fried apples were regular fare. And when it wasn't fried apples it was her sweet potatoes. My grandma will be gone 11 years this May. And I miss getting together for Sunday dinner with her and Grandpa. You'll never know how golden a simple Sunday meal with loved ones is until they're gone.

[@88bigsam]

I'm from south-central Kentucky and all of my family going back a ways are from the mountains. I make gravy the same way as you and learned how from my Mother was taught by her Mother. I always crumble up a sausage patty into mine. Definitely not an everyday meal. More likely dinner here and there. Love your page and all the wonderful comments its received. Nice to see our culture appreciated instead of the usual mocking and belittling that is so common place. Keep up the good work!

[@attilynn3924]

I don’t think you get enough credit for your video-making skills. Honestly, putting together a video is really an art-from the viewing angle to the lighting and sound (whether ambient or added), to the editing and production-you’ve really got a talent for this and it is part of what has made your channel so successful. Anyone could video themselves cooking, I guess, but not just anyone could make it look so professionally done. 😊👏🏻

[@nealgrey6485]

Putting together a meal like that is a real art! What a cook!

[@attilynn3924]

@@nealgrey6485 Oh, I agree! I’m just pointing out that most comments are about that fact and not about her production skills. Both are outstanding!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I so appreciate your kind words!! Gives me real encouragement 😀

[@Luvknots78]

I agree! And videos make me feel so at home. Precious memories of my childhood. I still live in the hills but, sadly so many of these traditions are being lost.

[@constancemiller3753]

I like how you talk about things that are related to the meal. If I was in the kitchen with my Aunt this is the way she would talk through her kitchen tasks.

[@usauditresponse]

Yes please! Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples, bacon, sausage. I make my grandma's breakfast every Sunday, take a while but it's worth it. She made it every day, rising about 4:30 in the morning to get it started. Coupled with a cup of hot coffee I'm in heaven. My best memories of childhood is grandma up making biscuits and gravy.

[@GodISSovereign17]

I’ll never forget the first time I tried to make gravy with pan drippings! I was newly married, and my Mamie(grandmother) had shown me how to make it when I was a teenager, so I thought it would be simple enough! I added WAY too much flour, but he said it was good even though I’m sure we could have used it for cement!! Thanks for the food memories, blessings!

[@charliethompson6601]

I'm in the foothills of Kentucky. I've been making gravy since a child. I think you were spot on. People ask for the recipe but all I can tell is the ingredients, the rest is process. Couple things to know. #1 Never stop stirring if the pan is hot #2Never add flour after milk to thicken it. That's how lumpy gravy is made. If too thin, boil it down. See #1 #3 brown/milk gravy is made by cooking the grease/flour hot. For whiter gravy add your milk as soon as the flour melts. #4 you can make gravy from countless types of meat. My favorite is bacon gravy with crushed up bits. My kids love hamburger gravy. My wife perfers Chipbeef white gravy on toast or SOS for you military guys. #5 it's great on thick cut tomatoes if you don't make biscuits. That's for you city folks.

[@marktaylor8659]

Such a wonderful breakfast. When I was growing up, my mother was a stay-at-home mom and cooked breakfast for all of us (5 kids) every morning during the week before we went to school. Usually fried eggs, bacon, and biscuits, but sometimes pancakes, french toast or maybe just oatmeal. But it was always ready when I came into the kitchen. I took it for granted that every home was the same. I was so blessed. Thank you for sharing your family tradition.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Your mother sounds wonderful 😀

[@DeeDee-dl7sl]

Mine too 😊

[@marktaylor8659]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Yes she was. She's been gone over 20 years but I can still hear and see her in my mind in the kitchen in our old house.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

@@marktaylor8659 I was just thinking of Pap this morning. It's funny how they can all the sudden pop into your mind like they're still here 😀

[@Randoplants]

It is amazing how some folks can manage all that!

[@edclay28551]

Mother used to fix my breakfast just like that with the addition of fried potatoes. She has been gone now for 27 years but when I go into her kitchen, I can still smell her wonderful cooking. Oh man! I miss my little mountain mother.

[@fightsportnews4329]

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[@BXtremP]

May she rests in peace. Looks like you had a wonderful mother.

[@duranniemanny5181]

Ed……country girl here. This was very similar to a Tennessee breakfast like my mother cooked but my sweet mama too made the best little fried potatoes. She diced them really small and added some onions and fried them in some bacon grease. Oh my I haven’t had food that good since I left home. My parents have both passed now but sometimes I can still smell the kitchen smells from my old homeplace. What sweet memories.

[@fyisense9312]

@@duranniemanny5181 I was thinking potatoes instead of apples but apples are good. I grew up eating this but mostly with potatoes. Physical labor food. I still eat this occasionally but just for a treat as I live alone but do enjoy cooking/eating. I especially like to pound chicken filets and fry them like chicken fried steak then I freeze them and reheat in the oven and serve with biscuits and gravy and sometimes with sourdough pancakes. I probably eat that as often as sourdough pizza. I make my own bread. I just love this channel. Many of my extended family/relatives were coal miners in West Virginia.

[@nicotinedietcoke]

Your videos are so comforting to me, they always calm my stress and help me unwind. I watch when I can’t sleep. Thank you for sharing ♥️🫶🏻

[@michellemiles9966]

I grew up in the Ozarks and we ate very similarly. Granny always had her folgers can of bacon grease on the stove that she'd season with. Now there's so much fuss about hydrogenated oil but, bless her, Granny lived to 96. We would have fried apples on occasion but usually it was fried potatoes. And yes, mostly on the weekends. I'm in NC now and have great appreciation for the Appalachian people and their heritage. This is my first time on your channel but I enjoyed it. I will be back.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Welcome to our channel and thank you 😀

[@michellemiles9966]

@Harold Zwingley that's right, I was thinking of trans fat.

[@emeraldcollier178]

When you added that flour to the grease from the sausage I got misty eyed as it reminded me of my grandmother.. God rest her soul.. she made the BEST gravy and I remember so many days growing up and watching her cook.. it was like magic. Thank you for sharing this.

[@maryfrancesmoore9514]

I'm from Michigan and we called that kind of gravy "Grandma Gravy" and it was WONDERFUL, and I sure can't make it the way she did! Gosh, I miss her.

[@okiejammer2736]

Tipper, you are such a CLASS ACT! 😁 Dealing with those who are critical (the nerve!) about how you're making YOUR family biscuits, you have dignity and respect and perhaps just a wee smile too. Oh, MY. My utmost respect for you, girl. Well done. AND A GLORIOUS BREAKFAST!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for the kind words 😀 Hope you have a great week!

[@constancemiller3753]

Bless thier hearts.👏

[@seshenofthenile2363]

I feel that if everybody in the world could experience biscuits and gravy, we would have a much better, peaceful world.

[@tylerash98]

This is like something my mom's family in West Virginia would make. Looks delicious

[@juliebrooks2948]

Yea, you know what's good!

[@TheLyzaj]

This totally gets the Eastern Kentucky stamp of approval as well!

[@MultiVictos]

Takes me back to my youth. My great grandmother had 17 kids. When we all visited on holidays, she, my mom and my aunts would cook everyone a big country breakfast like that. Always sounded like an orchestra of pots and pans while they cooked and when us kids would tackle the dishes afterwards.

[@1jackvalley580]

17 kids?!?!?!Holy Moly🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@johnaeryns5364]

This is my first time seeing this channel and I absolutely love her. There is not a drop of arrogance or contempt. Just a sweet hearted good woman cooking for her family. And I will always be happy to see her in my feed.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I appreciate the kind words thank you for watching!

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[@Farron1960]

She's very attractive as well

[@HughWoo]

@@Farron1960 I’m sure her husband thinks the same…

[@lisakrieg3076]

@@CelebratingAppalachia I just found this channel as well!! WONDERFUL!!!!!

[@kathleencapehart2254]

Fried apples are SO much better than hash brown potatoes with breakfast. My sister and I were the first generation in my family to make biscuits! My dad preferred toast, so my mom never made biscuits, and my grandmother (born in 1898) said as a young housewife she tried and tried to make biscuits, but they were always awful. She found a recipe for Parker House rolls on a cake of Fleischman's Yeast, and made delicious rolls the first time! So her husband and kids always had hot rolls with breakfast. It seems strange to me to be able to make yeast bread but not biscuits!

[@sunshinestatebushcrafter3049]

My Grammy was from Southeast Kentucky, and she made wonderful biscuits and gravy. She also made apples, but she would make them in a pot, and the consistency was more like apple sauce. Add some butter to them right before eating, and they were so good.

[@GeorgeCMcRae]

What we share as a people in this country. A big breakfast in all it variety. Why can't we get along? We share so much. Boy, that looked so good!!!!!

[@starofdabloc]

Yep!

[@mrdfoutz]

I should never watch your cookin episodes when I'm hungry! Back before I lost little brother, and then Mom, I'd make a Christmas morning feast. Everyone would sleep here the night before. I'd get up early and start the coffee, cooked bacon, then sausage in the bacon grease. Then, I'd make my gravy using condensed milk initially and thin with sweet milk, adding most of the sausage halfway through, whisking non-stop except towards the end when I'd throw the frozen biscuits in the oven (usually let Mom do that though cause she didn't want me to do it all!) and fry or scramble the eggs. Some freshly-made apple butter for a bonus (we had lots of biscuits!). That was a lot of work but everyone really enjoyed it, so it was worth the labor. Others would offer to clean afterwards, so I could sit and rest, being plumb foundered! 😊 Oh to have those times again. 😥

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

frozen biscuits? don't be cursin on this page

[@oilofjoywithcoachtina9555]

Oh my breakfast looks sooooo good! Biscuits and gravy are a very rare treat for us. My favorite breakfast is what my family called migas. It’s fried ripped up corn tortillas with eggs scrambled into them. I eat it over refried beans and topped with salsa. So delicious and simple.

[@nicholo1]

I loved hearing your stories of the food and the history. Thank you for sharing your regional traditions with us. I would love to go down to Appalachia some day.

[@BL-tr2ug]

Man, I cod listen to you all day. When I was 20 I never thought I'd think watching a woman cooking breakfast was cool. Its Cool to see how people in other countries go about their day. Thanks for the culture lesson. Keep the videos coming.

[@robertbraden3889]

My Mom cooked just like this, she is 90 now and still has the cast iron pans she used all her life. We were very poor when I was a kid but she could make something good out of the simplest things. Thanks for the video it took me to a good place : )

[@bigbub5219]

Rite old timers could make a meal out of nothing.

[@teresahiggs4896]

Hang on to those skillets. They are family heirlooms and valuable. If the power goes out you can cook with cast iron on a fire, , in a fireplace or on a a grill. And the way things are going, we might have to go back to some of the old ways .

[@littledetailsbydarby3240]

😳🤯🤩🤩🤩Keep those pans if possible!!!! But if you want to sell one, I’d pay top dollar if they’re in good condition and have been properly treated 🤩🤩

[@emmalewis1979]

My mom too ,she was from Alabama

[@jondickinson6830]

@@bigbub5219 Easier when food and rent was affordable.

[@jodileben694]

I don't know much about Appalachian breakfasts, but this looks just like the breakfasts my mom made. She was taught how to cook from my Texan great granny.

[@elizabethmiller9979]

This is exactly how our breakfasts were at Mamaw’s house growing up in WV. I can’t eat biscuits and gravy anymore because other people can’t make it right

[@ls7196]

Afternoon/Evening Miss Tipper this could make me hungry.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 It just might! Hope you've had a good day 😀

[@kellypbr7742]

Makes you hungry! I gain weight every time I watch her cook.😂

[@Furrynavel]

I could smell that breakfast through the screen. As someone from Appalachia, this really made me crave my grandmother's cooking :)

[@debbiewells2405]

This reminds me of my grandma from Kentucky. She made either fried apples or fried sweet potatoes for breakfast most of the time. They were both slightly carmelized from the sugar. Mine do not compare. The other grandma from Alabama made chocolate gravy for me any time I wanted it. I make it for my grandson who loves it too. I enjoy your videos so much.

[@jeanlawson9133]

Awesome 😎 I grew up in Mill Creek Holler in Virginia and My Mother is from Alabama.... I had the best of both worlds....

[@forgoodnesssake9161]

As an Australian I’ve always wondered what biscuits and gravy is, as they are something really different here. I hope to one day try a traditional breakfast like that.

[@shadowtheimpure]

Come on over to America sometime, there's a million places throughout the south that would be happy to show you a good time.

[@RobertWilke]

Yeah biscuits area whole other thing than what we have here. The closest to what we have here would be a type of scone. Even that isn’t exactly what it is.

[@Dr.Gonzz0]

its a dish you ether love or hate

[@glendawoodward8750]

My mom was from Kentucky my dad was from Australia. He had his home favorite but he loved my mom's cooking. I learned how to cook from both. They both grew up on farms. Marmite on toast and mixed up in gravy.😄

[@samuraidoggy]

@@Dr.Gonzz0 Yeah, looks absolutely disgusting to me.

[@bigbearcrouse2801]

Ma'am, my family is from the Appalachia mountains, just a touch further north. Every video you make reminds me of my great uncles and aunts, and my great Grannie. Thank you for keeping all this alive.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Wow, thank you 😀

[@rhondag8128]

My grandson and I call it “Brenner” breakfast for dinner. I loved waking up to the scent of coffee and bacon, I just knew my Dad was in there cooking us up a feast, biscuits and gravy, eggs and always fried potatoes and sliced tomatoes along with it.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that!

[@chriscox7039]

We call it the same thing. Probably have breakfast for dinner a few times a month.

[@DavidMajorz]

Born in Rome Georgia and my mom used to make these kinds of breakfasts every Sunday morning before church.

[@leewilliams7152]

I enjoyed seeing your man load his plate up, I bet he enjoyed every mouthful of your beautifully cooked breakfast. Thank you very much for sharing and for your stories of when you were growing up. It feels like my Grandma or Aunty is right here in my own kitchen telling me stories of them growing up. 🙂

[@foreverlv311]

Very interesting, I'm from UK and love to see other country's staples. Appalachian people fascinate me. Food looks good and hearty just the way it should be. You remind me of my mother, she cooked and dad worked. It's a shame women today don't get to stay home and cook like this anymore. 👍❤

[@teresahiggs4896]

I’m a stay at home mom, and I enjoyed being a housewife and a mom…. It’s worked well for my family. I have such womderful memories of my daughter when she was growing up…. If people would get off the consumerism, buying so much new stuff, going into debt for so much stuff, maybe more families could afford to,have the woman stay home. It just seems like it’s so hard on a woman to have a full time job , be a mom and have a marriage , and then take care of the house…. Where’s any time left for herself? I know a family wouid need to budget , and be careful about finances but it sees such a shame and so hands on women. Maybe that’s why woman aren’t having as many babies anymore …You just can’t do and have it all . And then, it’s easier to survive in the country than the city…,in the country you can have in gardens, animals for food….and even hunt for some of your food.

[@Sewmena918]

My husband and I both work, but we love to cook. He cooks most of our meals. There is always a way to cook for anyone that wishes to do so.

[@marvinabigby5509]

We got to work all day and come home an cook.Doing alot of prep and precooking hamburger and such to make supper faster during the week

[@meatavoreNana]

Try biscuits and gravy... I thought it would be awful but it was sooo nice.Im a Kiwi and have good old English tastes. 😋😋😋🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿Just try it Mate

[@alliekingsley7919]

It's a shame when a woman doesn't get to choose if she wants to stay home and cook or not (or a man, for that matter, if his wife wants to be the wage earner)! It should always be up to the couple, what they want to do.

[@norffc6557]

Apples seem like much a mainstay in Appalachian cuisine; just the same as they are in traditional English cooking and this brings me alot of joy. The sheer amount of varieties, colours, flavours and textures of Apple cultivars is amazing - and their application in pork products is legendary. Truly, apples are an undersung hero of the kitchen; versatile as a vegetable, seasoning and sweet dessert base. Our lives would be infinitely poorer without them.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

We love apples 😀

[@PapagenoMF]

My name is Mr Peepers

[@kni3403]

We had apple trees

[@anner651]

Apples and pork is very English.

[@doublejfarmshomestead4501]

It’s so good to see folks cook like we do. Your channel is such a blessing!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thanks so much 😀

[@montemccarty6512]

My grandmother's biscuits and gravy with eggs sausage and bacon gave my grandpa a heart attack...and he would probably say it was worth it. She made it every day. Ready at 6:30am....every day. Nobody has came close to matching her cooking.

[@jrpetty3331]

My great-grandmother did the same how I miss those days on the farm

[@thomasgordon8963]

"I reckon it'll do" dude is served a meal fit for a king 🤴 uh yum big time love the biscuits and everything in between thanks for sharing with all of us

[@jimdeane3667]

My father used to make this on Sunday mornings except for the apples, when I was growing up. It is one of my fondest memories with my father. Breakfast for dinner was always pancakes.

[@1rewd133]

My West Virginia grandfather ate the same thing for breakfast every day most his entire life of 96 years: bowl of oats, two pieces of sausage, two slices of toast, and a cup of coffee. I'm no stranger to yours and it looks delicious.

[@chevypreps6417]

I can tell just by listening to you and watching you cook. This breakfast is going to taste as good as it looks.

[@neomage2021]

This is the kind of breakfast my grandmother would always cook when we were at the farm.

[@virginiamccabe3073]

I was raised in Oklshoms and we had Cocoa and Bisquits and sausagebacon fried apples or peaches and always biscuits just like you did. I still love all that stuff today and I am 75 years old. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[@leighchambers5052]

You had fried peaches?? I have never heard of that. Interesting!

[@williamlackey123]

This breakfast reminds me of my grandmothers breakfast in West Virginia. She taught Homeeconomics and she knew how to do EVERYTHING. Everything she cooked was just delicious!

[@suzybailey-koubti8342]

Where did you grow up ⬆️ n WV, William? I grew up in Logan County, WV. ❤

[@williamlackey123]

@@suzybailey-koubti8342 My dad and his parents were from McDowell County and later moved to Mercer county. Not far from you!!!

[@donayers5925]

I grew up eating biscuits and gravy for breakfast and it's still my favorite

[@kathycox7392]

When I was a young girl and we were all gather at my grandmothers house in middle Tennessee for the holidays my grandmother would spend at least an hour and a half or two hours fixing the most amazing breakfast fried squirrel, biscuits and gravy fried sweet potatoes fried apples jams and jellies of all kinds those breakfast were amazing. Oh how I miss those people and those places they are all gone, but I still have the most wonderful memories of my southern heritage. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.

[@robinsonstegard538]

While in my early 20s in the 80s, I learned to make sausage gravy while working at a Bob Evans restaurant. I live in Lima, which is NW Ohio. As a young child we moved there from western Pennsylvania. Mom knew how to make a big traditional breakfast, but she worked and we ate cold cereal or instant oatmeal. I am so glad I learned about country cooking. From that time on, I've learned to cook and bake with cast iron. I just love it. Having a well seasoned skillet is a treasure!

[@JangoDripDrop]

This the mama everyone needs and wants.

[@judymccord871]

I so agree with having a big breakfast. We also love breakfast for supper! I was raised in Kentucky and are familiar with your delicious cooking! Thank you for sharing all your recipes!

[@knobbynah]

My grandmother was from western Kentucky and this video is EXACTLY like her Sunday breakfasts. I know how that room smells and I would give anything to have her food again.

[@Krupertful]

Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Fulton county, KY and this reminds me way too much of growing up there.

[@marisachambers6192]

My 80 year old mamaw, makes the absolute best homemade buttermilk biscuits and she doesn't even measure anything. I've tried may times to get mine like hers but never can. This breakfast reminds me of what my mom used to make before she passed. Love it. ❤️

[@buffalogal9139]

Buttermilk and lard are the best for biscuits.

[@corrinnacorrinna5572]

I always use buttermilk & Hussons Cream self rising flour & that's it. I melt bacon grease in a hot iron skillet & bake them. 😋

[@Riskmangler]

I think there's an unwritten rule where all mamaws agree to never measure anything. It's a way to keep the next generation on their toes.

[@marisachambers6192]

@@Riskmangler I think you are right! Lol

[@cynthiabeckham9049]

Just keep at it- All that practice is what makes mammow’s biscuits so good. You’ll get there!

[@TheWynch]

My granny got up at 4 o'clock every morning and made that breakfast, she usually had about 8 things on the table. We weren't rich, she just raised her own food and made enough food to last through lunch. She usually came in about 3 and fired up the wood stove and started on supper. And you are darn right, those were some hard working people and some tough women. I don't think we modern women could touch them.

[@scottperine8027]

This takes me back to my early days when I was in Knoxville and I was introduced to cat head biscuits along with the most sublime sausage gravy that became my right of passage into the glorious gift of southern cooking,you would make Edna Lewis very proud.

[@cheryllamb8831]

My mom was a stay @ home worker. She made hot breakfast everyday for dad & all the children. She also packed a brown bag lunch for all of us & sometimes would make us a sub sandwich for lunch with our fruit & cookies. I feel very fortunate. Even though I worked, I made hot breakfast for my children until in high school they asked me to stop. I love your cooking Tipper. My mom was raised in Georgia so a lot of the same food. 🙂

[@annalorree]

The color of the egg yolks proves they’re home grown, and oh my goodness, this video has made me hungry! I’ve not had fried apples before, so I’ll have to make that one of these days.

[@flexmasterson4297]

Granny was not a baker, except for baking lots of country hams. But she made the best milk gravy that we would pour over white bread that we tore up and piled high on the plate. One my absolute favorites, like last meal favorites. Thanks for ringing back those good memories cooking for us.

[@JustAThought155]

Wow! That looks AMAZING!!! Biscuits and Gravy, eggs, and fried apples alone got me??? Yessss Lord! I’m coming over!!!❤

[@PROUDCANADIANGIRL]

This was pure comfort. I’m Not from anywhere near Appalachia but my grandma and mom cooked like this every weekend here in Ontario 🇨🇦… the only difference is they added maple syrup to everything ( ha so Canadian) LOVED THIS!!!!!! Thank you for a walk down memory lane

[@joeseeking3572]

I'd be happy to eat that breakfast :) We too had breakfast for dinner sometimes growing up (dinner = supper in our house), but that was usually a request made to Dad. Mom was much more rules oriented, and she didn't quite approve. Truth be told, Mom was a pretty bad cook - she could stretch a dollar but hated cooking, and it showed. Dad, on the other hand worked as a cook in a restaurant as a teenager, and although his taste has always stayed fairly plain (basic) he can handle things in the kitchen, doesn't hate doing it, and the results are usually quite good. What I like best about this channel is the authenticity; it shows.

[@Rayvane55]

For nearly 40 years I cooked these kinds of meals. My family from Eastern ky all cooked like this. My mamaw cooked on a wood cook stove, she had a dough bowl that she used to make her biscuits. I watched her for years and today i have a dough bowl and i make my biscuits and choke them off to put in my skillet. My late husband was from the mountains of Virginia and his mother was a country cook as well. This is the real soul food.

[@kimcool6327]

Breakfasts for supper is this girl's favorite.

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

I had breakfast for dinner last night 🤤

[@dianaobrien2589]

I'm Australian and I can see the breakfast similarities..the sausage the eggs the biscuits, we call them scones and the gravy.. Looked delicious. The Apple with the pork sausage is a winner.

[@lindagross8112]

I learned to cook exactly like you do. My mother's grandfather was from Kentucky via N.C. and so many ways were passed down to my mother from her mother and daddy. I had to laugh when you were making gravy, mine looks exactly like yours. It is just one of those things you grow up making and don't realize other people don't. I really enjoy your videos, keep them coming. Thanks.

[@lonnier.6431]

theres nothing better than a breakfast like this, my grandmother cooked this, even chocolate gravy, i wish i knew how she made it, this kind of breakfast food could bring peace to the middle east.

[@afghansoffthehook542]

I grew up in Indiana and that's pretty much the big breakfast that I grew up with. Always for dinner though. Like me my mom was not a morning person. She always told me how hard getting gravy just right was. But I have never had a problem with it. To me the hardest part of gravy is trying to teach somebody else how to make it. So many people want an exact recipe; I don't have one. You just gotta eyeball it. We like crumpled sausage in our gravy too. And we used to scramble the eggs cuz they're good with gravy on it too. Well the sun was in the army station in Hawaii and he came home every year with list of what he wanted me to make for dinner while he was home. It was always my gumbo my biscuits and gravy and my chili. Everything else varied from time to time but it's always those three.

[@joaniereed8272]

Reminds me of my own grandma who passed lots of years ago. Put me on a step-stool to watch as a very small child. She eyeballed all her Biscuit ingredients w the palm of her hand. 💗

[@ChrsGuit]

My grandmother made Chocolate gravy when we were kids... I haven't heard someone mention it in a LONG LONG TIME. My grandpa is still alive at 81, and still fixes breakfast every year on Christmas day. Bacon, Country Ham, Sausage, gravy, eggs, biscuits... Before my grandma passed, I'd always try to bring her some things I'd cooked, since she no longer could, and she got a big kick out of it... I'm the only grandkid out of 10 who can actually cook a meal, and thankfully our newborn son will be able to learn and pass down the things I learned from my grandparents

[@billyjohnson4092]

Yep, that's it. This was breakfast every Sunday morning at my Grandparents house. I'm 62 years old now and miss those days in West Texas.

[@kevinlamartina8208]

Your children will have suck wonderful memories of the meals and family time you had together. What a Blessing! 👍🙏😊😘

[@missmollyc]

Fried apples were always my favorite snack after getting home from school. This brought back a lot of nostalgia. ❤️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Molly 😀

[@patmelton43]

This is what my mom fixed nearly every day. She also made what I call tomato gravy. Open a can of stewed tomatoes and thicken with bacon grease and cornstarch. Delicious. Also, I love fried apples and biscuits. Takes me back.

[@randymiller3949]

Ms.Pat I live in Satsuma Alabama...about 20 miles north of Mobile Alabama...my WONDERFUL MOM just brought me a pan of thick tomato gravy with chunks of tomatoes & 4 big cat head biscuits last week...MY MOM IS 75 YRS OLD, STILL LOVES TO BAKE ANY DESSERT, STILL LOVES TO COOK A COUNTRY DINNER, STILL KEEPS THE ROADS HOT WITH 4 OF HER CLOSE FRIENDS & IS STILL ABSOLUTELY AMAZING & AWESOME!!!

[@patmelton43]

@@randymiller3949 OH, wow! I'm older than your mom. I'm 78, but I still love down-home cooking.

[@YT-BenG]

Tomato gravy pulled apart bread fried taters an liver wurst was a regular meal for us .my mouth waters at the thought

[@christinaday813]

I'm from northern Indiana, and the first time I heard of fried apples was from my late husband. He grew up in Knoxville and Union County Tennessee. He described how they looked and tasted, and some of how they where made. So I made them, he thought they tasted great. Now everytime I watch your videos, it takes me back to our visits to his childhood home.

[@Thehubb1]

There’s something very soothing about the way she talks

[@julieseifert7314]

When I was growing up in Southern Ohio everyone made this. I absolutely love biscuits but prefer mine with jam. On a week day I like to eat soup for breakfast. It's weird I know but it's warm and a complete filling meal.

[@williamcurry4868]

Living down in the NC mountains, we’d make our biscuits in the morning and I would always eat them by sopping up butter with Karo syrup, though my sugar problem is meaning that I can’t really eat like that anymore. Darn it.

[@orlandovelezgarcia]

I really like the way you cook. Your kitchen is warm and inviting. It just feels familiar. It’s one of those kitchens that always smells delicious, even when there’s nothing in the oven.

[@patriciaemeigh4370]

Everything looks so good. Love breakfast for supper. As a child I recall my grandmother (a farmers wife who raised five boys) making a big breakfast most mornings. She would even bake her own bread if she didn’t do biscuits. Those men of hers had already put in time doing farm chores before they came in to eat breakfast and as you say, they worked hard and I don’t know that there was much stopping for lunch. Supper was another big meal after all that work. Sure miss her.

[@J_LOVES_ME]

When I was a kid, once a month we used to drive 4 hours to visit my grandparents for the weekend. And my grandma used to make these big breakfasts with sausage, bacon, fried eggs and biscuits & gravy (with bacon grease). We only got that at her house, and to this day we still refer to it as a "grandma breakfast." 💝

[@iluvmusicals21]

What a delightful breakfast! Love the skillets and coffee percolator, reminds me of my folks. I was a late in life baby, so my pater was 54 when I was born, and my mother nearly 41! I appreciate all the old time recipes and stories. Health problems keep me from doing much, but enjoy living vicariously.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoy our videos 😀

[@snidelywhiplash6391]

I remember eating breakfast at my grandparents in southeastern Kentucky. They would remove the cooked sausage that was preserved in a canned glass jar in grease and heat it up. I've never eaten anything else like it.

[@osmadchlo]

That makes the best sawmill gravy!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

We made our own sausage one time and canned it like that. You are so right-it was the best 😀

[@JC-xh9mp]

My family still cans sausage in jars. It’s delicious.

[@teresafincher3413]

I was taught to roll my biscuits by hand. I've tried rolling them out on the counter and cut them, lordy they was some hard biscuits. I am a southern born and bred woman who is thankful for her heritage.

[@suzybailey-koubti8342]

Watching this again, Tipper, and I cried. I miss my mommy’s breakfasts that were just like yours, except daddy liked fried apples for supper. Mommy went to heaven in 2019 at 88 after suffering from Alzheimer’s for 3 years. Precious memories! ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so sorry you lost her! What precious memories you have!!

[@donnasue9749]

That looks so good! Growing up, our breakfast before school was toast with butter and marshmallow cream, pop tarts, frozen waffles, cold cereal, or oatmeal packets. On the weekends we had like you do - homemade pancakes or fried potatoes and sausage and eggs, etc. I love having breakfast for supper! As an adult now, my typical breakfast is sausage or bacon (or sometimes salmon), eggs fixed in whatever way I feel like that morning, a starch (fried potatoes, biscuit, toast, etc), and a fruit, plus coffee and milk. I like gravy, too, but thicker gravy with lots of pepper. My suppers tend to be the smallest meal of my day because I have my big meal at lunchtime - plus by 5 pm I am ready to call it a day and I don’t feel like cooking a big meal and cleaning it up afterwards! So my evening meal is typically leftovers from lunch, or soup/salad/sandwich. I enjoyed this video!! Thank you for clearly showing how you make each item. Wonderful verbal recipes!! Donna. : )

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Donna 😀 Hope you have a good week!

[@BloodEagle1583]

Sadly, it sounds like your childhood was spent in extreme food deprivation and possibly near starvation; eating Pop Tarts and frozen waffles soaked in Aunt Jamima before school. In the days of yore, there were no such things. Being born at home with a midwife in the North Georgia mountains1947, we ate purdy well before being picked up by the school bus. None of this processed garbage folks have been brainwashed into calling ''food''. Now, you can have all the lard and grease you want and get ( as the ol' timers said} fat and purdy ! Though this was generally applied to livestock, I guess you can lay that on people as well. I'm talking healthy and not pavement cracking McDonald's land whale like Stacey Abrams.

[@donnasue9749]

@@BloodEagle1583 Hi, Trackrock! I do agree with you about how unhealthy pop tarts and frozen waffles are! I do not eat them or cold cereal, or even oatmeal packets, as an adult now. I try mostly to eat only food that God has made, and not man. And I don’t use the horrible man made fats - I only use real lard, and other saturated fats - those really are the healthiest. Growing up I envied kids whose mom’s made them real breakfasts. My mom thought she was giving us kids a better childhood than she got by feeding us processed foods. She was raised in an orphanage and many foster homes until she was 12, then she went to live with my Dad’s aunt and uncle (my parents met at a family reunion my dad’s family was having. They started writing, and then when my dad got out of the Air Force, they got married). So, my mom thought she was giving us kids lots of love and privilege by giving us junky food, because she mostly got boiled rice in the orphanage and peanut butter sandwiches. She ate much better at my dad’s aunt’s, of course, when she went to live there. I strongly believe that society was, and still is, lied to about the wonderfulness of processed foods, and that is why we have so many chronic diseases now. Cutting edge research of the recommended diabetic diets of the past 50 years, is showing that the diet themselves are making the disease worse for people - one of the findings is that all those fake sweeteners are worse than real sugar itself. And boy do I get lectured by the registered dietitians I meet when I tell them they are wrong with their CDC approved “healthy” diets. But I stand my ground. I think you were lucky to have been raised on the food you were. People who were raised eating that way, plus playing and working hard physical jobs - have been shown to have longer and healthier lives than those raised on fortified processed foods and tv, and working desk jobs. Ten years ago, I battled a disease the doctors told me I was going to die from in less than three years, I conquered it by switching to the Weston A Price way of eating - which basically was eating the way you did as a kid. Food plays a huge role in our health. I enjoyed reading your comment! I hope you have had a good weekend! Donna. : )

[@bethroberts674]

You are so blessed to live this life and to have your wonderful memories from your childhood. You brought me to tears with saying you eat an apple a day. My beloved father did too, he lived to be 86, my mother 89. My daddy loved his apples. 🍎 Thank you so much for sharing part of your life with us.

[@timmaggard8862]

I've cooked this hundreds of times for my family.. SOO good!! Thanks!

[@kimehlers9430]

Fried apples reminds me of my Dad and Grandmother. They made fried apples a lot with Sunday dinners in the fall. My grandmother would put a little sugar in hers plus some red hot candies in her fried apples. The red hots made it a wonderful color . Writing this I can still smell them cooking on her stove. Love watching your videos.