Old Ways Of Food Preservation / Fermenting / Pickling

I will show you how my family has been preserving foor for generations here In Appalachia, and a fun fun fact Friday! Hope you enjoy!
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[@maggiekirby2649]

What a treat- tell Char that she needs to start her own channel- so all of us old folks can hear her voice and remember our kids from long ago. She did an amazing job - Hollywood has nothing on Char!!! And yes- those pink shoes add to the beauty of it all. Thanks for sharing.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Maggie! Glad you enjoyed! 🙂

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

I get motion sickness but no way could I take my eyes of charlottes work, she did a wonderful job ❤ You are a great daddy !!!! Blessings

[@tpaw6908]

Char did really good. You can tell that she is enthusiastic about the garden. Good Crocs not the ones she's wearing but the ones your pickling in. 😂 Have a blessed weekend. We still need prayers. ❤🙏

[@metcalfmills5679]

I will let her know. 😆 Thank you and we are praying for you both🙏🏻 Love uns❤️

[@gidget8717]

The picture of you at the start in front of the strung bean reminded me so much of when I was a child. Used to be, if you walked down the down the road every house has beans hanging on the porch. That was many MANY years ago. I miss those days and those people too. 👵

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I miss alot of it as well ❤️

[@thomasmccardle725]

I think Char did a great job with the camera, I really felt like I was seeing things through her busy young eyes, and what a blessing to hear her honest young thoughts! What a beautiful blessing you have Justin, thanks fer sharing y’all’s wonderful lives!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Thomas, glad it was a blessing. I am thankful.

[@harrythewoollyman]

Charlotte stole the show.

[@metcalfmills5679]

She always does 😆

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

Yes she did !!!!

[@jackiekitchennowordsneeded587]

Charlotte is such a cute pie. Love her little sweet voice! You pickle just like my grandmother! Thanks for sharing.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Jackie🙂. And thank you for sharing

[@shellakers10]

Charlotte is a PRO in training! She's thoroughly entertaining PLUS I was jealous of her croc's! Thank you both for showing us your gorgeous sunset AND peppers! I was excited when i had 4 jalapeños the other day! 😂

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you so much! She always steals the video😆. Proud of her!❤️ Glad you enjoyed and that you got some peppers!

[@Grammysgarden]

I think Char did a great job.,Everyone should have a videographer like her to film. Thanks for the steps on preserving, I hope everything turns out great.😊

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! I will pass it along🙂❤️

[@lilolmecj]

A long time ago, while my Grannie was still living she would ferment and put up sauerkraut. By the time I was old enough to enjoy sauerkraut she was gone to be with God. It smelled kind of awful, but smell isn’t always an indicator. I wish I had been able to give my children the farm life.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you so much for sharing this with us. It’s never too late to start.❤️🙂

[@ritaspeers1259]

Great little filmography in the making! Great pepper pickin'!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Rita! 🙂

[@fpaullee9988]

i like the 'face'.

[@metcalfmills5679]

🙂

[@margaretwillie3630]

❤Great job Char!😍

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Margaret! 🙂

[@zaneyoung238]

Lots of good info here Justin. It warms my heart to see you using that Corelle cup...my grandmother had the same dishes as well as my mom and we are still using those dishes to this day. I have had the same set for years myself. Lots of meals and memories with those dishes. I'm looking forward to trying some of your methods here. Thankful that you are passing on the traditions to us all.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Howdy Zane, thank you for sharing this with us. I don’t remember how these cups got here, theres 2 or 3 here. I hope it helps! Thank you

[@user-db5im9oh9r]

Bless her heart! ❤

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you

[@katrinaingram4272]

Enjoyed Char's commentary ❤️ and I agree with her, that sure was a pretty sunset! All that preserving is gonna make for some good eatin'

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Katrina, I will pass that along🙂❤️

[@1wyldhare]

Justro! I just got an idea to replace your broken rubber band!! Take 2 Bungee cords that have hooks on each end, use 1 big one and hook it around or use 2 small one and hook them to each other, should work good, and NOT pop your eye out from a wild elastic band, right? Your welcome!😂👍🏻😊🙏🏻

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey thats a good idea! Thank you for sharing this with us 👍🏻🙏🏻🙂

[@1wyldhare]

@@metcalfmills5679 glad I had a few brain cells workin at that moment!😀

[@metcalfmills5679]

I understand😆

[@jackiekatz8286]

Lol the pepper got mad at you😂😂

[@metcalfmills5679]

Ha ha😆

[@jvin248]

I made kraut yesterday as well. I'll have to try the grape leaves this year. You're right, the tannin in the grape leaves will inhibit wild mold and bacteria.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing! Hope it turns out great!

[@rickyb2200]

Great video , and Char did great with the camera. Thanks Justro

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Ricky! Glad you enjoyed

[@lindaarmstrong4661]

Char did a great job! I especially loved her showing that beautiful sunset. ❤ May God bless all your hard work in gardening and preserving food this year. You do a great job and it makes me hungry!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey Ms Linda! Im glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much. God bless you 🙏🏻❤️

[@hawkrose8403]

Love this kind of video ❤ thank you so much for teaching and sharing this with us!!! Oh my goodness Charlotte you did such a good job recording Pops!!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed ❤️ I will pass all these along 🙂

[@thomasmccardle725]

Thank you again Justro fer sharing your pickling knowledge!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hope it helps!

[@jameswaterman2829]

❤ Good job Charlotte, excellent Commentary.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! I will pass that along

[@ChristinemAlred-mn5if]

What a sweet child. ❤❤❤

[@metcalfmills5679]

I am thankful ❤️

[@Lauravick62050]

Good job, Charlotte!!!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you!!🙂

[@SolaceForTheSoul123]

Such valuable information! Thank you and your talented little camera operator.

[@gardengrowinmawmaw8642]

Love that side kick of yours! She did a fine job filming. Thank you for the fermenting lessons. I always make my kraut in a crock, wouldn't do it any other way. Fermented vegetables are wonderful.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, I will pass that along. Thanks for sharing with us, I agree!!

[@tammy5590]

Good job. God blessed you. Looking good. Pray they all work off great.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! Yes 🙂❤️

[@mikeherren5604]

I was cracking up laughing the whole time. What a jewel ❤

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Mike! 😆

[@metcalfmills5679]

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[@bugcochran7026]

Put an elderberry twig on top of your crock it will keep the gnats away. an older lady told me this and it seems to work .I loved this video also subscribed. Thanks for sharing.

[@donnaallison7462]

Tell Char she did great! Lots of beautiful peppers! Thank you for sharing your method of storen the green beans!Hope tou and your family have a blessed and safe labor day weekend. God bless yall as yall bless us all!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Howdy Donna, I am glad you enjoyed and I hope it is a blessing. Thank you! and God bless you all as well. Glad to hear it is a blessing!

[@joeyhardin1288]

Thank you. My grandmother had glass gallon vinegar jars from the 40's that she used for weights. God Bless and stay safe.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us ! You too brother

[@davidanderson6579]

Wow very interesting I've been canning long time. I've made dilly beans but this look much better. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Howdy David, they have a special flavor. Glad you enjoyed

[@debbiewilson6527]

Xoxo

[@metcalfmills5679]

🙂❤️

[@jakezgab8576]

If u have access to soft and tender grape leaves ( usually the newest part of the vine, most tender leaves r close to the top chutes), u can make pigs in the blanket using grape leaves instead of cabbage wrap. With or without meat. 👍🏻

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey thank you for sharing this with us!

[@gowest5145]

Thanks so much for showing us this, it is much appreciated. I have heard so much about fermenting on KZbin that I finally just decided to do it. I ferments a quart of carrots for the first time about 2 weeks ago. I've never done it before. They say it is super healthy for you. I just picked the last of my corn this morning and picked some green beans. I've only had a garden for the last 3 years. I had a farm a long time ago, 38 years ago and sold that to get away from family. I went to Florida and had a lot of fun for years. Now I finally have bought another homestead and started gardening again. It's a lot of work but I sure am glad to have the garden food I have, it has really helped with the grocery bill lately. I don't have any crocks, although I have looked for some at flea markets and I don't have any weights. This is great, this way you don't have to do all that canning. I really appreciate seeing someone actually do it on a larger scale. I haven't canned a super whole lot this summer because I just want to eat fresh out of the garden. I had a garden on the farm I sold 38 years ago and I've missed it. Thanks for all the tips like about the gnats. I had no idea.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us. Hope you get back to gardening as big as you want to. I hope it helps in some way! Thank you!

[@gowest5145]

@@metcalfmills5679 I'm in the desert of New Mexico. I have a good garden here. It has to be watered all summer long. I have drip irrigation going night and day and 2 lawn sprinkles going automatically in the day. I have huge vegetables like beets, carrots, all kind of squash. This year I planted pumpkins for the first time, lol, and one is really big and more on the way. I'm enjoying myself a lot.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thats great! Sounds like it!🙂

[@dwightmoss7919]

Ha justro I look live in the mts. Of western NC Farther west than you I pickle to but a little different than you. I use a cup salt per gallon water that's what I mom used. Try a few green tomatoes in that sour kraut chop them Love that char

[@metcalfmills5679]

Howdy Dwight, I thank you for sharing this with us. I think that is the recipe my mother used as well. Might have to try the green maters sometime. ❤️

[@babsy7882]

justro you must write a book!

[@metcalfmills5679]

I keep hearing that 🙂

[@deborahstrickland9845]

Hey little Charlotte, you did a fantastic job of today’s video! Your commentary was excellent! Thanks for sharing that gorgeous sunset with us.💗 (Justin, you have a wonderful garden. Thanks for sharing the painstaking crock medthods of our ancestors. I hope to get a few crocks soon for next year. “Take the pains”, to do it correctly.❤️👏)

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey Deborah, I will pass that along. Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you and I hope it helps in some way. 🙂❤️

[@michale539]

I think your kraut should be fine. It's a pretty white color. Goodness sake, Charlotte is growing up so fast and so well. Good job Pops👍

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! I appreciate that

[@hawkrose8403]

This summer, I've kept a bowl with apple cider vinegar some water and a drop or two of blue dawn dish detergent on my counter and it catches them gnats very well!! Works like a charm!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us! I had one early on but didn’t replace it. Im going to do that today

[@tinagasson3796]

❤❤❤

[@metcalfmills5679]

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[@donaldatkinson7937]

I haven't put up anything lately, but I have picked about 6 gallons of muscadines, and started 300 collards in flats and bought 2 ounces of frilly leafed mustard and purple top turnips.

[@donaldatkinson7937]

2 ounces of seed that is.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Sounds good Donald! 👍🏻

[@beverlyhill6783]

Love your channel -

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, appreciate all of you 🙂

[@byronc8986]

Charlotte did a great job. Put her on the payroll Justro!

[@metcalfmills5679]

She already is! Makes more than me! Thanks Byron! 😆

[@vickydyar1856]

Thank you for info

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hope it helps!

[@alicevaughn7990]

Char you did a great job videoing for your daddy here is a tongue twister for you .Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers how many peppers did Peter Piper pick . Great video

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing! I will pass that along🙂

[@susansterchi4269]

I predict another KZbinr in the family! ❤

[@metcalfmills5679]

Well we never know! Thanks Susan🙂

[@MilknHoneyHeritageFarmz]

Char you did great showing all the stuff! You’ve got some great guy healthy things going there. The pepper face 😁

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Heather! 🙂

[@lslast7025]

Loved the video!! Never seen how to crock food! My mother whose passed now at 89 years old, bought a bigggg! crock at a yard sale years ago. It has set outside her home under the back porch for years. She had a wood top on it and used it as a table. I think it would hold a lot of beans or kraut. Wonder if it's still usable!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad to hear that you enjoyed. Thank you for sharing and I don’t doubt that it would be useable if it is not cracked. Hope you can use it.

[@mtpockets5007]

You make it look easy and delicious , Justin 😀

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, hope it helps in some way🙂

[@donaldatkinson7937]

For whatever reason, we don't plant many pole type beans in my area of SC, usually butter beans and clay peas, Dixie lee and pinky eye purple hulls mainly. I have a fence around one of my gardens and one year I ordered some Kentucky wonder pole beans and planted alongside fence, never seen soo many bean's.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks for sharing with us Donald!

[@marthakemp127]

Look forward to seeing the final product of each vegetable! I’ve never eaten pickled beans nor corn. I love kraut and make it like you do in a huge wide mouth jar. I don’t have a crock. I want to make beans and corn. Maybe next year. I pickled cayenne and banana peppers using your dill pickle brine recipe absent the dill.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed and thank you for sharing. Oh really! Please let us know how they turn out… Thank you!

[@sharondoty2451]

Great video! Charlotte did a great job, her commentary was awesome! I remember Aunt Ruby from when we would go to the Metcalf Decoration/Reunion. We would first go up on the hill to the Metcalf Cemetery decorate Graves and when I was real little, we would go to Clee's house to have a picnic in his front yard. Later on we would meet at The Little White Church, I can't remember the name. Ruby was my dad's Aunt so that would make her my great-aunt. I think I have that correct.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you! Yea Clee was my great grandpa. I have 2 pictures of his house that was tore down. Thank you for sharing this with us! 🙂❤️

[@sharondoty2451]

I would love to see those pictures. I always thought that was a great spot for a house. I. Remember going back to the spring and dipping cold water out to drink. And, eating the grapes off the grape vines. So good! 💜

[@metcalfmills5679]

I will try and share them sometime when they are out. These shed grapes are so good!

[@walterlang151]

My mom's cups & dishes are all the same pattern as the cup you used to scoop the beans and cabbage into the crocks. We canned tomato sauce today, and I'm going to try to make a video of it. I remember long ago when my grandmother pickled corn in a crock. She loved it, but the smell kept me far away from it. I thought it was spoiled.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Howdy Walter, thank you for sharing this with us. Hope you are doing good!

[@gidget8717]

My family have always done "mix pickles". We crock about 2/3 green beans to 1/3 corn kernels with a diced onion or two (according to how much your fermenting) and we do our kraut in the jar too. Nothing more heartbreaking than to find out a bug got in your pickles. Edit- I use a jar of water to hold down my plates. Not a canning jar of course, I might need that for canning. LOL

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us. That is so heartbreaking. Thats a good idea for sure!!! 😆

[@brendaleach-kv7if]

Great video especially the commentator! Wish I had all those banana peppers!! Justin, is it better to pressure can tomatoes or water bath? Stupid question?? Have a great weekend

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hey glad you enjoyed! I will pass that along🙂 It just depends, I have done it both ways. If they are already cooked I water bath. Thank you!

[@mtpockets5007]

Tongue twister . Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers say that three times quick Charlotte. Btw you are doing great with the camera 👍👍💕💕

[@metcalfmills5679]

I will pass it along! Thank you!

[@walterlang151]

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many peppers did Peter Piper pick?

[@metcalfmills5679]

I don’t know exactly but it must have been alot! 😆

[@uncledanny7]

That Charlotte is a mess I bet she and these 2 granddaughters of mine that are 5 and 6 would get along good. What is the purpose of the grape leaves I have always seen people do it that way but the only reason I could ever get out of them for using them was because that’s the way I was taught to do it

[@metcalfmills5679]

Howdy Danny, I am sure that they would. The grape leaves have tannins in them that help things stay crisp. Oak leaves do as well I have heard..

[@nnicholson706]

What's the longest you'd trust to eat out of them pickled beans before you'd can them?

[@metcalfmills5679]

If they are in a cool place you can eat until they are gone is what I have been told. I am not advising, just sharing what has been told to me. Thank you!

[@debminnich]

I’m still learning… did you add navy beans? Or??

[@metcalfmills5679]

No just the shellies. The beans that were too mature got shelled..

[@pittzu33]

Are the specs in the kraut caraway seeds, or something else? I made some last year and used caraway. I'm not a fan of the licorice taste in kraut anyanyway.

[@metcalfmills5679]

I don’t know…could the specks you see just be the voids in the kraut? I didn’t put anything in it…

[@dianejennings6044]

At 26 minutes you added 3 tsp of something to your kraut.. what was that?

[@metcalfmills5679]

Just salt. Easier to scatter in the t spoon

[@jcmamcknight]

Justin whats the history behind them crocks ?

[@metcalfmills5679]

The one with the kraut was my grandmother’s churn. The other I have had since I was very young. Thanks Rod!

[@jcmamcknight]

@@metcalfmills5679 They are beautiful crocks. I enjoy your channel very much.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you so much!