E6: Making Cracklings & Sausage is a Guenther Family Tradition: Come Along with me to Muddy Pond

In this Episode we watch the Guenther Family carry on the Family Tradition of making Cracklings and Link Sausage. Meet the Guenthers From Muddy Pond Tennessee.
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[@Angel43920]

Ty for sharing . In Spanish they are called Chicharrones . Delicious 😋. Blessings 🙏

[@georgepoirier9014]

Love the Guenther Family, God bless y'all from Buckfield, Maine. USA.❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheSassy777]

Farm families working together just like the OLE DAYS. God Bless them🙏🏻

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[@KathrynRucker]

Yummy yummy 😋

[@aragmarverilian8238]

This is probably one of the most wholesome things I watched in months! Reminds me of everything good I read or watched as I wrote my books.

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@@theappalachianchannel Thank you for making these videos :D

[@charliepc56]

It's amazing how they process the hog, and even more amazing, how they all work together and hand it all down from generation to generation. The Guenthers are awesome! Thanks, John, for another great video!

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[@federicoricardogarciamonta7239]

Here in Argentina we make homemade bread with cracklings in it. It's sooo good! We use the lard for making bread, frying, etc.

[@Jonathan-je9uh]

As always, absolutely beautiful families and pure home-grown and produced lovely heart-warming foods, I am EXTREMELY grateful for the elderly gent to kindly show everyone the ingredients for the sausages, as we live on a small holding and have own pigs etc, so the next smoking of meats and sausages I am sure going to give it a try, many thanks.

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[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

Thanks Guenther Family for sharing this with all of us💖. We let life's busy hustle busel push us through each day, but forget to pay attention and thanks for the little simple things around us!! I believe everyone should start by taking one day a week as a family and unplug from technology and just enjoy the day as a family!! Because when there gone, there's no turning back. And all you have are memories. All the hard work from each family member here all comes together at the end..it shows❤️.and things are more appreciated and not wasted like things are today by some Much love from Michigan y'all 💖. I did see that Michigander in that country store😉😉💓

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[@ritamccartt-kordon283]

It's been a very long time since I've been out to Muddy Pond. Such good people. Love the whole area. GOD bless

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[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

It's great to see people keeping these old traditions alive. Thanks for sharing John!

[@bossman1974]

I'm glad you recorded this, important knowledge that should be preserved

[@jimmymalone3494]

This video was so interesting and that meat looks so good'I enjoyed your video very much ' than you for sharing with us.

[@Luwanasue]

Another great video keeping the old ways going the way this country is heading we might just have to go back to doing these things again ❤

[@rachelfrees1268]

So good mixed in your cornmeal when making cornbread. What beautiful human beings all of you are. Watching soothes my soul. Thanks again John for another prime video.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Yes indeed! Delicious

[@janetsarlo8976]

I've learned so much from watching this channel! I wish I live closer to the Store! Thank you much God bless you all

[@TheRealJerseyJoe]

Love it ! Thank you for keeping these traditions alive.

[@jjdogfather5604]

My grandpa use to make this sausage and I have loved eating a lot of it. This vid made me hungry

[@dpmart3275]

John and family enjoyed this brings back some good memories of my Uncle and his farm a lot of work but good eating

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[@bethgiesey9405]

So very interesting. Thank you everyone

[@amyjudd]

family traditions around the table .... the best memories !

[@jeffreymurray8803]

John I wish more young Americans could watch your shows, its a great source of history, family values and community coming together. Please thank the Gunther family for sharing . What part of Tennessee are they located? Thanks Jeff and Kelly Murray

[@vanditravelsnomad9198]

Thanks for another great video 👍 sure makes you hungry watching 😊

[@robertpirtle3638]

What a great video. I can’t wait to see them all. You know later on . After these videos aren’t doing nothing on KZbin. It be cool to have series of your videos. But I’m sure you have already thought of that.

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[@ClarksKentuckyKnives]

Man I would’ve loved to knew all that in my younger years. I only got to hear the old folks talk about doing it. We bought sausage from a feller out in the county every fall. Best sausage ever.

[@thomasdecoste4442]

THANKYOU SO MUCH GUENTHER FAMILY FOR DOING THIS DOING THESE VIDIOES AND SHAREING WITH US THANKYOU APPALACHAN FOR SHOWING US A FASINATING CULTURE CAN NOT WAIT TO COME FOR A VACATION TO THIS AREA OF THE US KATHY DECOSTE ONTARIO CANADA

[@frankmarullo228]

This video is AWESOME , the family unity and the old fashioned ways are unbelievable ! For the most part the ways are gone in AMERICA today I am the last one in my immediate family left and I miss the old ways of. ( what we used to call America ) the old days are gone . THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA...PS. Look forward to your next video

[@BornAgain717]

Man that sausage has my mouth watering....!

[@jenniferbarnes1053]

We always put crackling in home made corn bread growing up and i still do occasionally. Love them

[@oldmanvic]

Myself coming from a third world country we always cook with lard. Back in the day. We always was healthy kids. This days just don’t take much to get sick. N supposed we eat better food!!! Thanks John for all your videos. And yes we was always active as kids / adults Not in front of tv playing games.

[@FrankensteinLover]

That looks Wonderful, they definetly got the Routine down.

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[@mikecurtis2585]

Very nice great video always fun!

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[@Night56Owl]

This takes me back to the early 1960s as a single-digit boy. My grandpa was a retired German/Hungarian butcher, born in the 1890s, and the whole family would get together for butcher days and do EXACTLY what your family does. At six, I was handed a butcher-sharpened knife and taught to CAREFULLY cut fat from scrap meat. I thought I was essential to the process but in reality it was an intro to knife skills, butchering, rendering lard, making sausage, etc. I have never been squeamish about meat since. And I can still distinctly remember with great pleasure the wonderful mix of smells of sage, garlic and paprika in the sausage making. Ohhh and hot cracklins

[@michaelpardue2400]

This take me back to my Grandparents days .Miss them days 😢

[@shelleyboggs2527]

That lard is very healthy for you. It feeds your cels, your brain. Wish I had a whole bucket of it!

[@Jeff-lu9wi]

So awesome, thank you for doing these videos. Blessings from Texas!

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[@mikerichardson7658]

We used a 30gal black cast iron pot.Those were some of the best days of my life...Love your viedo.

[@jameswallace3043]

I'm an old-timer I forgot more than I know but you've reminded me a lot of what I have retained but you helped me out a lot he brought back a lot of remembrance

[@champ7258]

Love the way you all live ! I would love to learn from you sir .

[@stanley4052]

Learning a lot about the people of Tennessee, awesome work ethic.

[@robertclubs9908]

Awesome show Thanks.

[@todayisit3]

Very interesting. I like my sausage a bit on the spicy side so I'm sure theirs would be to my liking. Takes me back to my younger days when my grandpa did his own butchering.

[@londonkyguy]

I love these videos. Keep them coming. Ty

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[@andrewchaney242]

Wow this reminds me of how we grew up. I miss those days

[@ernestwilliams268]

Just saying the word cracklings made me hungry we used to make crackling corn bread in the Great Smoky mountains North Carolina where I was born in 1939 where we ate anything that didn't eat us first. just watching you folks made me home sick for the old days. we had no running water we used springs and we didn't have electricity but I still miss those days where we made our own or did without.

[@mancavechuck]

Grew up in Brazil I remember the way to my cousin's house and they would do this every Friday hog and making homemade salami in smoking it was awesome brings back good memories

[@Sugarmountaincondo]

I really love the fact that neither the Amish men or women need to wear a wedding ring in order to show they are married. Everyone in the community knows who's who and what's up. The style of "packing" the meat in the extruder makes good sense, good trick.

[@DaveBloke-tg5wv]

Good stuff! Much love from England, we call them pork scratchings, or straight off of the roast pork, crackling!

[@rexnotlob1351]

THANK YOU . A fun little journey to the past. And yes most kids today we'll never know heritage. So where is the samples of brunch wager or if you call it liverwurst? Always lunch or maybe early dinner with mustard and onions.

[@geebopbaluba1591]

Those girls husbands and daughters and sons are some lucky men cause you know their eating good!!

[@larrywalker3137]

Should have put the cracklings in and then added lard to it after the cracklings were in

[@b.abrackus6403]

Awesome video 👍

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[@justinauman5438]

Learned a lot in this video we always pressed our lard with our sausage press through cheese cloth into metal cans and what was left after pressing we called cracklings

[@Jon4784]

Yummy chili an fried pies

[@dorenedaniels7493]

I did enjoy this so very much thank you God bless you 🙏❤️

[@SunGlass1989]

You make me so hungry, you're doing it exactly the way I was raised doing it the same as you do, canning dose smoke sausages is so delicious my Dad is seventy eight and he never cuts back on any of this pork everything is so delicious I love it!

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[@SunGlass1989]

@@theappalachianchannel You have very interesting videos Thank you for sharing I love your channel keep up the great work I looked forward to see the next one.

[@bryanholler8889]

What a great teacher you are. I hope your kids never forget. Have you ever stuffed the hog bladder with sausage and cured it like a country ham?

[@tailgateproductions7653]

Great video..... Thanks

[@07181127]

Thank you for your knowledge!

[@thomasmccardle725]

I love y’all’s family, and the foods you prepare! Much love from the other side of the mountain!!!

[@maryschmidt6945]

Growing up on a farm, we had hogs butchered and rendered lard. We’d make crackling cookies and put cracklings in scrambled eggs.

[@stevedingman474]

Omg I miss this ! When familygathered from everywhere too be here for butchering time we’d process 4-6 hogs and it was a week long event . The parents were doing break down butchering. And canning and usually there was a bunch of cucumbers too dill or gherkin pickles also. We ate giant meals that were omg so delicious. Playing with my cousins making lifelong friends . But when grandma and grandpa passed on we all just went our own ways . And nobody kept up the family farm it was made into a corporation and the row crop and pastures was leased and everyone got a small check every year . And the old farm house was removed along with the out buildings . So we let a way of life go and a huge part of our families history was no longer being preserved. Can you imagine growing your entire grocery bills too nothing ? Veggies meat was provided by your family all you had too do is pay for some feed or buy a pig or two and pitch in a afternoon on a weekend . Always having farm fresh eggs fresh milk that was in the barn fridge . It. Gave my family when I was growing up too have my mom at home full time dad worked for the railroad as a conductor gone 2-3 days and home 3 days and back and forth my whole life ! What a wonderful life we lived .

[@tonyz6421]

Good morning. I need some breakfast!

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[@Me-mn4nw]

Lard floats to the top which is what seals it! Or you can add some to the top.

[@markminton8974]

Man, that Food looks so good..

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[@edwardsimmons7805]

Yea, my great grandmother was 109 when she passed and grandma was 96. They ate pig all their life.

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[@lissahenry6751]

Jars should be completely dry to can cracklins like that. Yum, Yum, Yum! Be honest- how long will they last in your family? Not long in mine.

[@gymguy5322]

Italians make pizza/bread with the cracklings

[@garywagner9942]

I would have loved to see how you fire up the smoke house with the meat all in there.. we don't use much Hickory wood here in South Africa just Oak.. I have seen hickory shaving at our big stores...

[@harry1babs]

I love your family👵

[@jalleman61]

We up north make sausage up until it warms outside.Any chance of getting a better look at your recipe? 😊

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great video

[@robertwojcik4458]

My mother in law takes cut green beans loads them up in a pillow case and freezes them like that. She calls them dirty beans

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[@keithshears6088]

My uncle as a child said he ate lard sandwich with sugar sprinkled over it because time were tough and he lived to 86.

[@margiemasih1073]

I love cracklins.wish I were there to eat them all...

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[@topwatchtopwatch4967]

I am 82, still active and don't dare cook my eggs in nothing but lard.

[@markminton8974]

Wish i had some of those Cracklins..lol..

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[@brandic3612]

This video starved me!! I would absolutely love to have a piece of their homemade bread and a sausage link. I've always wanted to try cracklins, but I wish I had a jar to give my mama for her to make her cornbread. I know she loved cracklins.

[@Aprilwyatt0005]

Interesting 🤔 that’s a lot of money. I’m thankful that people do these things so I don’t have to 😂

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[@josephshade2037]

Enjoy watching your video. Could you introduce all of the members of the family and who is sons and daughters? We used to go to Clarkrange Hunting Lodge when John Gilbert owned and ran the place. Seriously thinking of riding down one day to see the store.

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

You're awesome. But you're not that old. I am not a hater. I promise you. I grew up very poor and we worked hard as well. I'm very thankful that you've shared this with me. Thank you.

[@TheFranksta1970]

Wogreat video and hollly wow just beautiful!

[@paulnubreu6887]

Lard is not unhealthy. It only becomes an issue when combined with a lot of carbs, carbs are unhealthy.

[@robertivanski3830]

You are dreaming my friend

[@mancavechuck]

Acording to Carnivore diet ultimate food source

[@terrymullins2175]

I'm glad to try that this fall

[@Me-mn4nw]

We put them in 5 gallon tin buckets including the lard.

[@susanoswalt1169]

That lard is as healthy as it gets I think our problem today is the chemical additives that are put into everything

[@drevil4454]

I am a surgeon. if you exercise enough or work like the old folk use to you can swim in lard. our bodies only consume what is required. no more no less. if a man can turn 76 living of lard and manual labor, I would say he lived a good life.

[@jerrybaird2059]

God bless you man, it’s true that hard work permits you to eat fat foods, such as lard, and to suffer nothing.

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[@marialoewen6434]

Good afternoon I like to see that what you said my peanut we do just put that on the bread and salted a little the tastes

[@apostlepaulvining5688]

Y’all should do a video on Pemican that last for years. In fact, some was dug up at the Civil War sites and was still edible so the documentary said.

[@eddiebarrera-ws8vu]

Hot dogs are cases in a plastic casing,that is cut after the hot dog goes thru the steaming process,so actually ur eating an uncased hot dog.

[@tinahiggins5789]

Thank you

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[@wendybond9374]

My Mennonite grandparents always were given a coffee can of crackins by farming siblings who raised pigs. I now raise pigs and have tried making cracklings when rendering lard and it doesn’t have near the flavor of my grandparent’s. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. Is there only fat and the bits of meat found in it ,in what you’re rendering? My dad remembers the uncles putting ribs in the lard as it was rendering to cook them, as a treat for those doing the hard work of rendering. I wondered if that added more flavor. BTW, grandma fed us cracklings on toast after frying them in a pan and adding a little milk to them before putting them on the toast. Fun to see your process. Missed seeing you grinding and putting lard in the pot, so wondering about the fat you chose to render. All of it? Skin on?

[@CarlosAlbertoMarques-tk1jh]

Esse pé de torresmo faz um pão de milho maravilhoso . Adoro os vossos videos . Abraço de Portugal

[@realemonful]

By the end of this video I can say for certain that this guy could definitely learn some very valuable skills from real Low German Mennonites that came directly from Russia, where my forefathers are from and we are located all over Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe and Africa and we were the ones that brought all these foods to Canada originally in the 1800s. Pennsylvanian Dutch is a completely different Mennonite thing altogether. Similar but different altogether

[@michelleonard11]

Interestingly enough, our family (the Guenthers) ARE what you are referring to. We are not PA Dutch. My grandparents did live in PA briefly in the 60's, but the heritage is all Russian Mennonite. Our ancestors came to Canada in the 1880's, and from there to the States in the 1960's. 😊 It's nice to meet you.

[@wendybond9374]

My grandparents were Russian Mennonite too. My dad was raised in the Reedley area of CA, and then in San Jose when it was just orchards.

[@johnnysechrist6313]

I spread my meat and fat out and then season it before I grind it,,,,some are special order and they're seasoned by the order. extra sage, crushed red pepper, etc.......2 month wait back order

[@gailjohnson2795]

Real deal sorghum not the burnt taste you can buy in the grocery

[@jimmywayne983]

why do they chop the cracklings so fine, is it for cooking or? Here we eat cracklings as snacks just like people eat chips.. ofc unless its on a pork roast, then its part of the meal.

[@zackh1798]

At six minutes in when the wife slams down the jar and walks out.

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[@JoeDavidson-gc7zo]

Hello, I’m Joe from Springfield Missouri. I’ve been watching the videos of the family on KZbin. My question is I seen him how they make the from the stock and I know he’s could take the seeds from the top of the stocks and replant them. Is there any other uses they can use it for like flour??

[@sheilastewart1699]

??? Do the not clean the rims of their jars with vinegar n paper towels???

[@andrewchaney242]

Crackling bread is good