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Growing up, there was a chestnut tree in a field near my parents' house. A few years after I left my parents home, the state had planned a freeway going through that field. My mom petioned, talked with city leaders, newspapers, and anyone who would lisren to save the tree. It was over 100 years old at the time. Thanks to her efforts, the tree was saved. The freeway was built so as to leave the tree there. The article in the local paper was titled " Leaf me be, is old tree's plea." That tree is still there, but sadly, my mom passed shortly after that at age 54. That tree is her legacy. Thank you for bringing that memory back to me. She has been gone for 40 years. ❤❤❤
Thirty years ago, i planted 9 Dunsford and one Chinese chestnut. The Dunsford have been backcrossed with the Chinese to produce a tree virtually 100 percent true to the American chestnut but with the virus resistance of the Chinese chestnut. Last year i picked them up with a friend in five-gallon buckets and she sold them on Ebay at ten dollars for a five-gallon bucket. This year she was gone so I harvested alone and dehydrated them in the shell. Have over130 gallons of dried nuts in airtight storage and they last years. Easily broken out of shell and reconstituted for any dish requiring whole or chopped chestnuts. I have also steamed and shelled fresh nuts, then put through food processor to chop. The chopped meat is dehydrated and then easily ground by my hand mill to make flour. Makes fantastic pastries and breads. For a homesteader or survivalist, a stand of these trees is a Godsend.
Gathering chestnuts in the fall is a family tradition here . We make slits in all but 2 chestnuts and put them in a cast iron pan with a lid. We roast slowly on the stove top. They are done when the 2 unslit nuts explode !
My dad was born in 1919 and the family was poor as a church mouse.....his favorite snack even as he grew up and became not rich but successful. they meant Christmas and good times to him.
Roasted chestnuts bring back lovely happy memories of when hubby and I (both in the Air Force in the 80s when we met), wandering around the Christmas markets while stationed in Germany, eating the chestnuts out of a paper cones. They came from a huge pan over a fire and they put them in the cones. Your hands would be toasty holding them as you walked around.
Love chestnuts! I am of southern Italian descent and throughout the winter we ate chestnuts quite often. Raw, boiled or roasted, we loved them anyway. My parents didn’t cut an X they just made a cut on them. Thanks for a stirring a great memory.
In 1992 my husband found some wormy chestnut boards for sale on Balsam, on the Jackson Co. side. He bought them for $119.00 and had our neighbor plane them at Unagusta. He built me a beautiful dish cabinet that we use to this day. His name and date is burned into the wood on the back of the cabinet. It will go to our daughter ❤
I used to work in Chicago at One IBM plaza in the heart of the city. Vendors in carts sold roasted chestnuts down the street. I would walk by the Christmas dressed Marshall Fields windows with roasted chestnuts being sold on the street. 1983. Ahhh the memories.
I’m a new viewer to your channel and I haven’t caught your name so to the lovely mistress of Celebrating Appalachia I love your program and I love watching you💕 You are so Gracious and informative!! I thoroughly enjoyed you sharing the local history of chestnuts and the blight that has befallen them and your grandfathers experience with them. HAPPY NEW YEAR🎉🪅🎊to you and your family from here in California and I look forward to watching you all from now on👍🏻😻
I saw a video about the history of chestnuts in Appalachia. Near the end it talked about an organization that was trying to repopulate Appalachia with chestnut trees (I forget the name). I hope they're successful. They're a great natural and resource, and, as you said, part of the history of Appalachia. Glad you're over the crud, praying for Matt too. Happy New Year, and God bless!
Sorry for the rude comments from others sweet online friend. Your chestnuts will only last a day or so roasted so enjoy them and take some to granny’s house to share. What I hear as far as Matt’s care is concerned is you saying, “do you need some more tea? Do you need a heated blanket? Is there anything you could eat for supper?” You clearly love and take amazing care of your family! I got your thank you card in the mail. Such sweet words. Bless you and the whole hillside this coming year 2025.
Had watched a documentary a couple of years ago about this. Such a heartbreaking thing to happen, but how cool that the chestnuts you roasted are a product of the revival process!
Ah chestnuts - truly a labor of love! Koreans eat so many chestnuts throughout the year that we have a machine that shells them for us. A Korean favorite is to shell the chestnut and then boil them in brown sugar and water - creating a sweet chewy treat. Plus they store well in the fridge. There's a ton of recipes on TH-cam - be sure to try.
@@carlam.9529 Its a huge industrial machine. Its usually available in the supermarket so when its chestnut season we can shell them in bulk before buying them. We have to pay a dollar per use.
Chestnuts are wonderful! My dad back in the 50's used to boil them a few minutes. I have cut slits in them & put them in a microwave for 2-3 minutes works too. Plus the big thing that makes them delicious is SALT. Just sprinkle salt on them !!😋😋😋
Prayers for your healing Matt, and that everyone else stays well. One of my grandsons’ has strep and Son has taken his little brother to urgent care. So much sickness around here . Asking for your prayers as well. My illness keeping us from attending your book signing in Knoxville has finally been diagnosed as lymphoma. Been a long road of drs. And tests. Will be starting treatments soon. So thankful I am a believer in the power of prayer and by faith, know God will get me thru this. Happy 2025 to all of you and know your channel will continue to be a blessing to me and so many others. Love to you all🥰
God is our strength and refuge in times of trouble. He brought me thru a life threatening illness. I pray He will be with you and that you will feel His sweet Holy presence thru your treatments. Prayer is a powerful thing! Blessing from a fellow child of God.
Roasted Chestnuts…what a treat. My nephew has two of the old chestnut trees on his farm in Blue Ridge Mts., of Virginia. He guards them carefully. Hope Matt’s feels better soon. When we had chestnut’s they were rare and scarce. Everything we had to eat was seasonal, or canned during gardening season. Nothing store bought until I (the youngest) was about 15. Happy New Year.
Oh I love chestnuts! Haven't had any in a long time. My grand mother had lost all her teeth so she would boil the chestnuts. This made them easy to peel and soften the nut, I l liked them both ways, raw or cooked. I know if we had any we wouldn't share with the live stock..
My mom used to make roasted chestnuts for the holidays. Part of our Italian tradition. I haven't had any for a long time now, was going to get some this year and didn't get around to it. I don't remember them being sweet at all though, just kinda nutty flavored. Have to order some. I hope Matt feels better real soon. A lot of people are getting this crud now.
What great memories this brings back! My Granmama was from Kentucky. My Pop Pop planted a tree here in Selma, Al on our family land. The only problem was the sharp burs that hurt our bare feet in the summer or ?fall when we were growing up. 😊 We had a fireplace and Granmama actually roasted some on the open fire for us one Christmas. She taught us all about the blight. Her Daddy was a tobacco farmer. I love your videos and I pray Matt feels better!
Don't think I've ever had chestnuts. But I would like to try them. Hoping and praying you and Matt are feeling better soon and the rest of the family stays healthy. ❤🙏🙏🙏❤️
Truly enjoyed the history of the chestnuts! Had no idea about the blight. So many old time songs and poems about them too! Very glad they are trying to bring them back! Thanks for showing us!
Praying you all feel better soon. We have 2 Chinese chestnuts in our backyard. I wouldn't recommend that. Just because of the Burrs that fall,but I would be happy if they were further back. I love them raw and the goats love them. Hope you all have a very blessed healthy and prosperous 2025.
My Papaw said when he was a child . Back before the blight hit " In some" hollers". you were able walk knee deep chestnuts . They were so plentiful they used them as feed for livestock. Haywood Co. circa. 1918 .
My husband is from Naples, Italy and roasted chestnuts are a big tradition at Christmas, along with other roasted nuts in the shell, and tangerines. I live in Rhode Island, where there's a large population of Italian Americans, so they're easily found in the grocery. He prepares them the same. Cut a slit, boil them in water for about 5 minutes, then roast them in a hot oven. They're not my fave...I don't care for the texture, but they alway remind me of Christmas in Italy. Hope you all are on the mend soon! Best wishes for the new year.
My Grandparents were from Salerno, just outside of Naples, and it was my Grandfather’s tradition every Christmas to roast chestnuts for the family. We were lucky to get the nuts from Italy and Grandpa always cut an X with his knife and put them in a pie pan in the oven to roast. He’s long gone now but the sweet memories remain
Tipper and Matt I hope you start feeling better. I remember being a young girl grandma and mom would give us cod liver oil the taste was yucky.Then mom would make homemade chicken soup and give us just the broth to drink to try to remedy our sickness and dad told stories of our grandpa putting an onion 🧅 cut in his socks to wear to sweat the cold old.Back in the day they said it worked well. Speaking from my heart now thank you so much for your videos. Tipper you are just a really blessing I am going to try to keep family holiday traditions going forward because I think for me we sorta lost those after my own personal heartache of my son passing in 2005 .It definitely devastated me and held me back. I want to thank your daughters for their videos also Corey’s video bible reading and how we have to try mind over matter with faith always. I let my granddaughters watch them because they are in high school and influences from others can effect their life but believing in their faith and ability should be more important and stronger and that’s were Katie had such an impact of the importance of being strong in their beliefs. By watching I learn how to become a better ole grandma lol and mama to my surviving adult children and passing on to a more healthy strong heart faith and helping others. So thankful I found your channel when I did. So thank you all from the bottom of my heart ❤️ My husband is a guitarist and teacher he’s 78 and really enjoyed your brother Paul and grandma singing and guitar playing. I learn watching Bless your hearts and your entire family 🙏
My dad used to like chestnuts. I just read where a man named Herb McClure planted some American chestnuts on his property in Georgia mountains of White County. He likes to wild turkey hunt and said that when the blight had killed all the chestnut trees the turkeys and deer left the area. He had planted some in the forest area and the turkeys and deer have returned. Hope Matt feels better soon. Both my boys had it over Christmas week. Also tell Matt you are pronouncing acorn correctly and he is pronouncing it like the mountain folks…lol. It’s a-korn not a-kurn…but people from different areas pronounce it differently
Tipper, You're selfless when it comes to your family & lovingly put them first even when sick. Sending Matt get well wishes & sending love & prayers to Granny as well. I've always wanted to try roasted chestnuts & like Katie usually think of Johnny Mathis' beautiful Christmas song. Wishing you & yours a happy healthy & prosperous New Year 2025. God Bless Y'All.
Aw, so sorry y'all are sick, Matt you sound terrible, prayers for you to feel better soon. Tipper, there are still 2 chestnut trees where I grew up..2 years ago my youngest son and I gathered some and roasted them in an iron skillet over an open flame. They were delicious! ❤
Love love love fire roasted chestnuts.❤ Sweet memories collecting chestnuts with my father, first husking then roasting and peeling the chesnuts in our fireplace in the winter.
We had a tree when I was growing up and I liked them but I haven’t had any for years watching you put an x on each one was a good childhood memory Thanks 🙏
When I was very young there was still a tree or two producing and I grew up with chestnuts. Over the last seventy or so years, we made do with Italian chestnuts. At Thanksgiving and Christmas we make chestnut stuffing - one for the stuffing - one for the cook. I haven't roasted them for a long time. I do the X (easier with the heel of a chop knife) and cook them in my instant pot (used to be a stove pressure cooker). No need to soak first and they are moist and easier to peel. Thanks for the link. I didn't know any of the American crosses were producing for sale. I will be trying them soon. This video made me need some.
My mom roasted Chestnuts 🌰 every year. Kinda tradition..I loved them. She would also make Chestnut bread. Hopefully Matt will be getting better . My prayers are with you all especially Granny. Happy New Year.
Poor Matt. Me and my family love you guys. Prayers up and extending blessings. Im horrible at roasting chestnuts. Ive tried three years and that cant be what theyre supposed to be like lol
Hi Tipper, like Katie, the song came to mind the minute you said chestnuts. Rosting anything makes it taste better. Tell Matt to take elderberry then put some garlic in honey. Let it ferment for about 3 or 4 days. Then take a teaspoon 3 or 4 times a day. I put mine in the fridge. It works. Praying Matt feels better soon and that no one else gets sick, especially Ira. Love yall.
Oh Tipper & Matt - I can relate to what you are experiencing with what you call the 'crud' as I also had the same symptoms hit me a few days before Christmas - it is a virus going around there in the USA as well as here in Canada. It does knock one off their feet and feed for sure! Glad you are feeling better Tipper, and Matt may you soon also feel better; and may no one else come down with it - especially Granny! 😷🤧😵💫🙏
Thank you for teaching me a bit about chestnuts. My grandmother used to roast chestnuts during the holidays. I don’t remember, how they taste. I was forced to eat one and didn’t like them. I’m temped to try them now. Well see! Take care and get well soon!🇨🇦🙏❤️
Roasted chestnuts are an Italian family staple. They're called "castagna" (accent on the second syllable, the g is silent). My mothers father loved them (Papa Tony) and used to roast them every holiday season, especially on Christmas eve, I loved watching you roast them. My grandparents lived in Boston, and chestnuts were highly available but I can't tell you where they came from. As always, thanks so much for sharing Tipper. Hippo Gnu Deer!
I grew up in Boston Proper, 65 now. Chestnut trees Everywhere. We would toss sticks at the tree to make more fall, collect them in our pockets, punch holes thru them and make necklaces. We never ate them, never roasted them, but all knew the song. This year, I found them at Costco, 6 pack in a box. They were horrid and tasted like mush. Hard to swallow. Seemed like something that should be hidden in pancakes, bread, or cake recipes. I would definitely try making them at home next time I come across 🌰 🌰 Chestnuts in New England ... next trip.
We had a chestnut tree on our farm when I was younger. I like them raw but now I want to try them roasted. Thanks for reminding me of them. It would be a neat old timey tradition for Christmas.
Oh my goodness my father in law loved nature and trees, he knew all about the American chestnut tree that used to be a majestic tree! And yes we have a few Chinese chestnut trees in our yard that my father in law planted years ago, he passed couple years ago, those Chinese chestnuts shells are too spiky, thank you for this video! This is amazing ❤
Happy New Year, I pray that you and Matt feel better soon. I just love you and your family ❤ Thank you for all the prayers for my sister. She has had two more small strokes. She cannot walk and she has to learn to feed herself. She will go through rehab whenever she is able to leave the hospital. Thanks again ❤❤❤
This was so much fun, Tipper. Thank you for sharing the history. So much about the chestnut I didn’t know. I sure hope you all feel better real soon. My goodness, Matt sounds rough!
I love listening to you reading and sharing about how people use to do things. It makes me want to try to plant a chestnut tree on my property of .49 avres
I didn’t know chestnuts had become such a rare treasure, but I wouldn’t, because I’m not a little 8:49 girl anymore but my daddy was a service man for the rural areas. He would bring me home treats and one would be a handful of chestnuts ( along sugar cane and sweet shrub whatever the season) I loved the chestnuts,peeled and ate them raw. But they were plentiful down here in south Alabama. I don’t know if this was pre-blight but it was in the 50’s and 60’s but they grew here. Special precious memories of my precious daddy!
My neighbor usta have a native tree. We would pick them up make a slit on them and microwave them they would spin in the oven then pop boy were they good. I had grinded some for a cake. It was delicious but you had to grind what seemed like days it took so many to to make the recipe. I had found the cake recipe in my Grand Moms cook book. That ole tree is gone now . Guess it finally got the disease. I sure do miss them they are delicious. We've had them raw and boiled and roasted too ❤️🙏🏽 Thanks Tipper for bringing back the memories. ❤️🙏🏽✌🏽
Brings back sweet memories of when my Grandpa would show up at Christmas with a bag of chestnuts and horehound candy. We ate them raw. He's been gone since 1980. So thanks for the reminder 😊
We roast chestnuts (not on an open fire ☺) every Christmas for as long as I can remember. We make a slit on the lighter flat spot. We've never boiled them just put them right in the oven for about 25 minutes at 350°. Thanks for showing us this and telling us the story about the American Chestnut. I'm already looking for a couple of trees that I can put on our property since we live in an appropriate zone for growing. Happy New Year to you all; sending love and prayers!
Fifty years ago, I sometimes would buy canned candied chestnuts from France. Delicious. One of the applications was to put the candied chestnuts and the syrup over ice cream. 😋 Really tasty, and pretty fancy if you want it to be.
I remember watching a documentary about the American Chestnut trees and all about the blight taking them out. I hope that honest people through the help of The Creator can heal those tree experiments back to new life. What a thoughtful and creative Christmas gift. Ira and Matt had me laugh out loud. Ira around minute 21 with his excited(?) squeal, and Matt about the "acren/acorn" debate that you talk like you are from about the line and he talks like where he's from. I love how your conversations could be just like something we would be saying in our household too : ) That's part of what draws so many people to your videos, just being yourself and so many people can identify with that.
Happy new year to you and your wonderful family i just watched your video missing pap today i cried so hard because everything you said i felt my pap died 11yrs ago but it seems just yesterday ive been lost since the day he left your words are so real tipper the love and memories you have of him its just as i have but thank you so much for that my mama is ninty she and pap where married for 57 yrs your brother paul looks alot like him keep up with your great videos gods live and blessings❤
Thank you for sharing the information about chestnuts. I haven't ever had them, but I might need to try them now! So sorry y'all have been dealing with the crud. Praying you all feel better soon. Also, loved hearing baby Ira in the background...so SWEET!☺
My dad's favorite roasted chestnuts I've only eaten them one time at the Nature Center we had them during reindeer week on these cold nights and hot chestnuts hit the spot
Hi Tipper and Matt, I have had raw chestnuts but not roasted ones and I'm going to have to try them sometime. I'm glad your feeling better Tipper. I'm sorry that you aren't feeling good Matt, I hope you feel better soon. I'm sending Healing Prayers for You.😊❤🙏🏻🙏🏻 I Hope Y'all had a Great New Year!😊❤🎉
That was very interesting... I love,love chestnuts.. used to buy them at grocery store certain time of the year,,then they were just gone,,and i wondered... Yes, i love them any way,,,raw and dried out,,they are sweet..Great Video..
I remember when I was young my neighbor had chestnut trees and he would give us some at Halloween and I loved them and couldn’t wait to get them love your family and videos
Places helping with storm damage:
Helping Hands & Deep River Farm Hurricane Relief: centralasheboro.org/events-opportunities/hurricane-relief/
Samaritan’s Purse: www.samaritanspurse.org/
NC Baptists: ncbaptist.org/hurricane-helene-response/
8 Days of Hope: eightdaysofhope.com/
Cajun Navy Relief: www.cajunnavyrelief.com/
Please add any other organizations in the comments. Thank you!!
Poor Matt has the Blight! Praying he feels better real soon! I'm with Katie, I'm too picky to try 'em! 🤗
🎉 Happy New Year from Cortez, Colorado! 🎉
Growing up, there was a chestnut tree in a field near my parents' house. A few years after I left my parents home, the state had planned a freeway going through that field. My mom petioned, talked with city leaders, newspapers, and anyone who would lisren to save the tree. It was over 100 years old at the time. Thanks to her efforts, the tree was saved. The freeway was built so as to leave the tree there. The article in the local paper was titled " Leaf me be, is old tree's plea." That tree is still there, but sadly, my mom passed shortly after that at age 54. That tree is her legacy. Thank you for bringing that memory back to me. She has been gone for 40 years. ❤❤❤
Hi Chris,
What a beautiful comment about the outcome of that tree and your mom.
Your comment brought tears to my eyes.
God Bless You,
Tierney
@tierneyyoung9333 Thank you, Tierney. 💞
This is beautiful and something I would love to read in Readers Digest or journals.
I’m so sorry you lost her way too soon. What an amazing story about the tree and her legacy!! Thank you for sharing it!
I’m curious about where is that tree?
Thirty years ago, i planted 9 Dunsford and one Chinese chestnut. The Dunsford have been backcrossed with the Chinese to produce a tree virtually 100 percent true to the American chestnut but with the virus resistance of the Chinese chestnut. Last year i picked them up with a friend in five-gallon buckets and she sold them on Ebay at ten dollars for a five-gallon bucket. This year she was gone so I harvested alone and dehydrated them in the shell. Have over130 gallons of dried nuts in airtight storage and they last years. Easily broken out of shell and reconstituted for any dish requiring whole or chopped chestnuts. I have also steamed and shelled fresh nuts, then put through food processor to chop. The chopped meat is dehydrated and then easily ground by my hand mill to make flour. Makes fantastic pastries and breads. For a homesteader or survivalist, a stand of these trees is a Godsend.
That is so wonderful!!
Gathering chestnuts in the fall is a family tradition here . We make slits in all but 2 chestnuts and put them in a cast iron pan with a lid. We roast slowly on the stove top. They are done when the 2 unslit nuts explode !
Love that!! Thank you 😊
Interesting about the 2 unscored ones exploding & indicating the scored ones are done. Thanks for sharing that info!
What a great way to do it! Thanks for your family's tip.
My sweetheart always made us roasted chestnuts as a Christmas tradition. Missing them and him!
What sweet memories. I know you miss him so.
My dad was born in 1919 and the family was poor as a church mouse.....his favorite snack even as he grew up and became not rich but successful. they meant Christmas and good times to him.
Love that Linda!
Roasted chestnuts bring back lovely happy memories of when hubby and I (both in the Air Force in the 80s when we met), wandering around the Christmas markets while stationed in Germany, eating the chestnuts out of a paper cones. They came from a huge pan over a fire and they put them in the cones. Your hands would be toasty holding them as you walked around.
Love those memories 😊
Love chestnuts! I am of southern Italian descent and throughout the winter we ate chestnuts quite often. Raw, boiled or roasted, we loved them anyway. My parents didn’t cut an X they just made a cut on them. Thanks for a stirring a great memory.
In 1992 my husband found some wormy chestnut boards for sale on Balsam, on the Jackson Co. side. He bought them for $119.00 and had our neighbor plane them at Unagusta. He built me a beautiful dish cabinet that we use to this day. His name and date is burned into the wood on the back of the cabinet. It will go to our daughter ❤
That's beautiful! I know it's lovely.
Love that!!
My wife roasts chestnuts every Christmas.
Daddy used to do them on the fireplace. Good memories 😊
I used to work in Chicago at One IBM plaza in the heart of the city. Vendors in carts sold roasted chestnuts down the street. I would walk by the Christmas dressed Marshall Fields windows with roasted chestnuts being sold on the street. 1983. Ahhh the memories.
Great memories!
I hope Matt feels better tomorrow. Love you all!
I’m a new viewer to your channel and I haven’t caught your name so to the lovely mistress of Celebrating Appalachia I love your program and I love watching you💕 You are so Gracious and informative!! I thoroughly enjoyed you sharing the local history of chestnuts and the blight that has befallen them and your grandfathers experience with them. HAPPY NEW YEAR🎉🪅🎊to you and your family from here in California and I look forward to watching you all from now on👍🏻😻
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! Happy New Year! 😊
This beautiful lady from Appalachia’s name is Tipper
I saw a video about the history of chestnuts in Appalachia. Near the end it talked about an organization that was trying to repopulate Appalachia with chestnut trees (I forget the name). I hope they're successful. They're a great natural and resource, and, as you said, part of the history of Appalachia. Glad you're over the crud, praying for Matt too. Happy New Year, and God bless!
thank you Doug 😊
Sorry for the rude comments from others sweet online friend. Your chestnuts will only last a day or so roasted so enjoy them and take some to granny’s house to share. What I hear as far as Matt’s care is concerned is you saying, “do you need some more tea? Do you need a heated blanket? Is there anything you could eat for supper?” You clearly love and take amazing care of your family! I got your thank you card in the mail. Such sweet words. Bless you and the whole hillside this coming year 2025.
People must really have a luxury of time to post rude comments here. Honestly, pick your battles! If you don't like or agree, MOVE ON!
Thank you 🙏
Hope all of you get better and stronger soon, it's too bad for anyone to get sick around the holidays. What a nice Christmas present you gave Matt.
Had watched a documentary a couple of years ago about this. Such a heartbreaking thing to happen, but how cool that the chestnuts you roasted are a product of the revival process!
Prayers that you ALL get better soon🙏
My grandma always put chestnuts in the Thanksgiving dressing.
Ah chestnuts - truly a labor of love! Koreans eat so many chestnuts throughout the year that we have a machine that shells them for us. A Korean favorite is to shell the chestnut and then boil them in brown sugar and water - creating a sweet chewy treat. Plus they store well in the fridge. There's a ton of recipes on TH-cam - be sure to try.
@@KK-wh8mm can you please tell me the name of the machine and where to get it? That would be a dream to have something like that !!!
Sounds great thank you!
@@carlam.9529 Its a huge industrial machine. Its usually available in the supermarket so when its chestnut season we can shell them in bulk before buying them. We have to pay a dollar per use.
We roast ours over a fire and then dip them in ghee or drawn butter. Delicious!
Yum!
i think Katie is right! they fed and healed us... so they wiped them out! thank you for sharing!
Chestnuts are wonderful! My dad back in the 50's used to boil them a few minutes. I have cut slits in them & put them in a microwave for 2-3 minutes works too. Plus the big thing that makes them delicious is SALT. Just sprinkle salt on them !!😋😋😋
Prayers for your healing Matt, and that everyone else stays well. One of my grandsons’ has strep and Son has taken his little brother to urgent care. So much sickness around here . Asking for your prayers as well. My illness keeping us from attending your book signing in Knoxville has finally been diagnosed as lymphoma. Been a long road of drs. And tests. Will be starting treatments soon. So thankful I am a believer in the power of prayer and by faith, know God will get me thru this. Happy 2025 to all of you and know your channel will continue to be a blessing to me and so many others. Love to you all🥰
Sorry to hear that. I will pray for them and for you!! Thank you for all you do for us 😊
@ Thank you so much Tipper-you and yours are truly a God send. 🙌🏻
God is our strength and refuge in times of trouble. He brought me thru a life threatening illness. I pray He will be with you and that you will feel His sweet Holy presence thru your treatments. Prayer is a powerful thing! Blessing from a fellow child of God.
@@apiecemaker1163 thank you so much!!! Isn’t it so comforting to know
other believers are lifting you up? God bless you🙌🏻
Roasted Chestnuts…what a treat. My nephew has two of the old chestnut trees on his farm in Blue Ridge Mts., of Virginia. He guards them carefully. Hope Matt’s feels better soon. When we had chestnut’s they were rare and scarce. Everything we had to eat was seasonal, or canned during gardening season. Nothing store bought until I (the youngest) was about 15. Happy New Year.
That is wonderful! Thank you 😊
Oh I love chestnuts! Haven't had any in a long time. My grand mother had lost all her teeth so she would boil the chestnuts. This made them easy to peel and soften the nut, I l liked them both ways, raw or cooked. I know if we had any we wouldn't share with the live stock..
I first had them when living in Southern Spain. My Spanish neighbor had them. I love them.
My mom used to make roasted chestnuts for the holidays. Part of our Italian tradition. I haven't had any for a long time now, was going to get some this year and didn't get around to it. I don't remember them being sweet at all though, just kinda nutty flavored. Have to order some.
I hope Matt feels better real soon. A lot of people are getting this crud now.
What great memories this brings back! My Granmama was from Kentucky. My Pop Pop planted a tree here in Selma, Al on our family land. The only problem was the sharp burs that hurt our bare feet in the summer or ?fall when we were growing up. 😊 We had a fireplace and Granmama actually roasted some on the open fire for us one Christmas. She taught us all about the blight. Her Daddy was a tobacco farmer. I love your videos and I pray Matt feels better!
Don't think I've ever had chestnuts. But I would like to try them.
Hoping and praying you and Matt are feeling better soon and the rest of the family stays healthy. ❤🙏🙏🙏❤️
Thank you Carolyn 😊
If u will find a wild chestnut tree boil the leaves and make a tea stop it in jar with lid and use it for diaper rashes and it works
I love chestnuts. Prayers for Matt to get better real soon.
Truly enjoyed the history of the chestnuts! Had no idea about the blight. So many old time songs and poems about them too! Very glad they are trying to bring them back! Thanks for showing us!
Praying you all feel better soon. We have 2 Chinese chestnuts in our backyard. I wouldn't recommend that. Just because of the Burrs that fall,but I would be happy if they were further back. I love them raw and the goats love them. Hope you all have a very blessed healthy and prosperous 2025.
My Papaw said when he was a child . Back before the blight hit " In some" hollers". you were able walk knee deep chestnuts . They were so plentiful they used them as feed for livestock. Haywood Co. circa. 1918 .
So amazing!
My husband is from Naples, Italy and roasted chestnuts are a big tradition at Christmas, along with other roasted nuts in the shell, and tangerines. I live in Rhode Island, where there's a large population of Italian Americans, so they're easily found in the grocery. He prepares them the same. Cut a slit, boil them in water for about 5 minutes, then roast them in a hot oven. They're not my fave...I don't care for the texture, but they alway remind me of Christmas in Italy. Hope you all are on the mend soon! Best wishes for the new year.
My Grandparents were from Salerno, just outside of Naples, and it was my Grandfather’s tradition every Christmas to roast chestnuts for the family. We were lucky to get the nuts from Italy and Grandpa always cut an X with his knife and put them in a pie pan in the oven to roast. He’s long gone now but the sweet memories remain
@@debbiesdeathpileSame with my Italian grandparents: cut an “x” and roast in an old metal pie pan. ❤Wonderful memories.
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Tipper and Matt I hope you start feeling better.
I remember being a young girl grandma and mom would give us cod liver oil the taste was yucky.Then mom would make homemade chicken soup and give us just the broth to drink to try to remedy our sickness and dad told stories of our grandpa putting an onion 🧅 cut in his socks to wear to sweat the cold old.Back in the day they said it worked well.
Speaking from my heart now thank you so much for your videos.
Tipper you are just a really blessing I am going to try to keep family holiday traditions going forward because I think for me we sorta lost those after my own personal heartache of my son passing in 2005 .It definitely devastated me and held me back. I want to thank your daughters for their videos also Corey’s video bible reading and how we have to try mind over matter with faith always. I let my granddaughters watch them because they are in high school and influences from others can effect their life but believing in their faith and ability should be more important and stronger and that’s were Katie had such an impact of the importance of being strong in their beliefs.
By watching I learn how to become a better ole grandma lol and mama to my surviving adult children and passing on to a more healthy strong heart faith and helping others.
So thankful I found your channel when I did.
So thank you all from the bottom of my heart ❤️ My husband is a guitarist and teacher he’s 78 and really enjoyed your brother Paul and grandma singing and guitar playing.
I learn watching
Bless your hearts and your entire family 🙏
You are so kind! Thank you for your sweet encouragement!! We appreciate you!!
Awe....sorry you feel so yucky Matt! Sending healing prayers! Get well quickly! ❤❤❤
Prayers for Matt to be well very soon and I hope you will feel even better Tipper. Thank you for showing the Chess nut process. 😃
So sorry Matt is feeling punk. What a sport to come out and participate anyway. Happy New Year to your whole family.
I TRULY WISH EVERYONE A BLESSED SAFE NEW YEAR.
Thank you! I hope you do too!!
My dad used to like chestnuts. I just read where a man named Herb McClure planted some American chestnuts on his property in Georgia mountains of White County. He likes to wild turkey hunt and said that when the blight had killed all the chestnut trees the turkeys and deer left the area. He had planted some in the forest area and the turkeys and deer have returned. Hope Matt feels better soon. Both my boys had it over Christmas week. Also tell Matt you are pronouncing acorn correctly and he is pronouncing it like the mountain folks…lol. It’s a-korn not a-kurn…but people from different areas pronounce it differently
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Tipper, You're selfless when it comes to your family & lovingly put them first even when sick. Sending Matt get well wishes & sending love & prayers to Granny as well. I've always wanted to try roasted chestnuts & like Katie usually think of Johnny Mathis' beautiful Christmas song. Wishing you & yours a happy healthy & prosperous New Year 2025. God Bless Y'All.
Thank you 😊
Aw, so sorry y'all are sick, Matt you sound terrible, prayers for you to feel better soon.
Tipper, there are still 2 chestnut trees where I grew up..2 years ago my youngest son and I gathered some and roasted them in an iron skillet over an open flame. They were delicious! ❤
Hope you all feel better soon! Baby talk and giggles are the best sounds ❤ 😊
Poor Matt! I hope he feels better soon. Loved this video and learning about the history of the American chestnut. 😊
Tipper your so sweet to take care of your husband when your sick too ❤️
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Men groan more.😂
Love love love fire roasted chestnuts.❤ Sweet memories collecting chestnuts with my father, first husking then roasting and peeling the chesnuts in our fireplace in the winter.
Love those memories!
Prayers for Matt to turn the corner and for you both to return to being bright eyed and bushy tailed ❤ I say acorn like you Tipper 🤷♂️
We had a tree when I was growing up and I liked them but I haven’t had any for years watching you put an x on each one was a good childhood memory Thanks 🙏
Thank you 😊
When I was very young there was still a tree or two producing and I grew up with chestnuts. Over the last seventy or so years, we made do with Italian chestnuts. At Thanksgiving and Christmas we make chestnut stuffing - one for the stuffing - one for the cook. I haven't roasted them for a long time. I do the X (easier with the heel of a chop knife) and cook them in my instant pot (used to be a stove pressure cooker). No need to soak first and they are moist and easier to peel. Thanks for the link. I didn't know any of the American crosses were producing for sale. I will be trying them soon. This video made me need some.
Thank you for sharing how you do it 😊
My mom roasted Chestnuts 🌰 every year. Kinda tradition..I loved them. She would also make Chestnut bread.
Hopefully Matt will be getting better . My prayers are with you all especially Granny. Happy New Year.
Poor Matt. Me and my family love you guys. Prayers up and extending blessings. Im horrible at roasting chestnuts. Ive tried three years and that cant be what theyre supposed to be like lol
I enjoy how you give us information like you did on the chestnut. 🌰 I hope you all get to feeling much better!
My grandparents had a Chestnut tree by their house when I was growing up. We all loved eating the chestnuts. We were so sad when the blight hit it.
I’ve never had Chestnuts. I’d probably like them because I do love nuts! Praying for Matt to feel better soon! Take care and God bless y’all!
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Thank you!!
Hi Tipper, like Katie, the song came to mind the minute you said chestnuts. Rosting anything makes it taste better. Tell Matt to take elderberry then put some garlic in honey. Let it ferment for about 3 or 4 days. Then take a teaspoon 3 or 4 times a day. I put mine in the fridge. It works. Praying Matt feels better soon and that no one else gets sick, especially Ira. Love yall.
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a chestnut. They sound like they are delicious! I hope Matt’s feeling a lot better by now.
Oh Tipper & Matt - I can relate to what you are experiencing with what you call the 'crud' as I also had the same symptoms hit me a few days before Christmas - it is a virus going around there in the USA as well as here in Canada. It does knock one off their feet and feed for sure! Glad you are feeling better Tipper, and Matt may you soon also feel better; and may no one else come down with it - especially Granny! 😷🤧😵💫🙏
Hope you are better! Thank you 😊
Thank you for teaching me a bit about chestnuts. My grandmother used to roast chestnuts during the holidays. I don’t remember, how they taste. I was forced to eat one and didn’t like them. I’m temped to try them now. Well see! Take care and get well soon!🇨🇦🙏❤️
Happy New Year!! Y’all feel better. Ira is trying to put his two cents worth in about the chestnuts. Mom won’t let him try them. Love you,Ira!!!
Happy New Year, y'all!
Sending Matt healing prayers. ❤🙏❤
Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏
Roasted chestnuts are an Italian family staple. They're called "castagna" (accent on the second syllable, the g is silent). My mothers father loved them (Papa Tony) and used to roast them every holiday season, especially on Christmas eve, I loved watching you roast them. My grandparents lived in Boston, and chestnuts were highly available but I can't tell you where they came from. As always, thanks so much for sharing Tipper. Hippo Gnu Deer!
Love that Margaret!! Thank you for sharing about your family 😊
@@CelebratingAppalachia my pleasure Tipper.
From Boston also 😊
I grew up in Boston Proper, 65 now. Chestnut trees Everywhere. We would toss sticks at the tree to make more fall, collect them in our pockets, punch holes thru them and make necklaces. We never ate them, never roasted them, but all knew the song.
This year, I found them at Costco, 6 pack in a box. They were horrid and tasted like mush. Hard to swallow. Seemed like something that should be hidden in pancakes, bread, or cake recipes. I would definitely try making them at home next time I come across 🌰 🌰 Chestnuts in New England ... next trip.
We had a chestnut tree on our farm when I was younger. I like them raw but now I want to try them roasted. Thanks for reminding me of them. It would be a neat old timey tradition for Christmas.
Poor Matt hope you feel better soon. Happy New Year to you both 🎉🎉😊
Bless Matt’s heart . Praying for both of you! Happy New Year!
Oh my goodness my father in law loved nature and trees, he knew all about the American chestnut tree that used to be a majestic tree! And yes we have a few Chinese chestnut trees in our yard that my father in law planted years ago, he passed couple years ago, those Chinese chestnuts shells are too spiky, thank you for this video! This is amazing ❤
Poor Matt. I hope he gets better soon.
Hope you and Matt will get all better soon. I love chestnuts boiled better than roasted. Daddy always got us some for Christmas.
Happy New Year, I pray that you and Matt feel better soon.
I just love you and your family ❤
Thank you for all the prayers for my sister. She has had two more small strokes. She cannot walk and she has to learn to feed herself. She will go through rehab whenever she is able to leave the hospital. Thanks again ❤❤❤
Oh I'm sorry about that Mattie Ann. We will continue to pray for her and her family and for you!! We appreciate you so much 😊
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This was so much fun, Tipper. Thank you for sharing the history. So much about the chestnut I didn’t know. I sure hope you all feel better real soon. My goodness, Matt sounds rough!
I love listening to you reading and sharing about how people use to do things. It makes me want to try to plant a chestnut tree on my property of .49 avres
I didn’t know chestnuts had become such a rare treasure, but I wouldn’t, because I’m not a little 8:49 girl anymore but my daddy was a service man for the rural areas. He would bring me home treats and one would be a handful of chestnuts ( along sugar cane and sweet shrub whatever the season) I loved the chestnuts,peeled and ate them raw. But they were plentiful down here in south Alabama. I don’t know if this was pre-blight but it was in the 50’s and 60’s but they grew here. Special precious memories of my precious daddy!
Love those memories!!
My neighbor usta have a native tree. We would pick them up make a slit on them and microwave them they would spin in the oven then pop boy were they good. I had grinded some for a cake. It was delicious but you had to grind what seemed like days it took so many to to make the recipe. I had found the cake recipe in my Grand Moms cook book. That ole tree is gone now . Guess it finally got the disease. I sure do miss them they are delicious. We've had them raw and boiled and roasted too ❤️🙏🏽 Thanks Tipper for bringing back the memories. ❤️🙏🏽✌🏽
That cake sounds wonderful 😊
Happy New Year y'all! 😊🎉 Continued prayers for everyone. The sweet sound of Ira is precious. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🌄
Brings back sweet memories of when my Grandpa would show up at Christmas with a bag of chestnuts and horehound candy. We ate them raw. He's been gone since 1980. So thanks for the reminder 😊
Love those memories 😊
We roast chestnuts (not on an open fire ☺) every Christmas for as long as I can remember. We make a slit on the lighter flat spot. We've never boiled them just put them right in the oven for about 25 minutes at 350°. Thanks for showing us this and telling us the story about the American Chestnut. I'm already looking for a couple of trees that I can put on our property since we live in an appropriate zone for growing. Happy New Year to you all; sending love and prayers!
Love that tradition! 😊
My grandma made a chestnut dressing for Thanksgiving to die for!!
That sounds amazing!
That sweet baby singing is just so joyful! Feel better soon!
😊 Thank you
Praying Matt feels better soon. Take another nap and stay hydrated. We need Papa Bear feeling chipper this new year!🥴
Awww, feel better soon Matt🙏🙏
I have only had roasted chestnuts once. I was at Castell Coch, a Castle in Tongwynlais Wales. I adore Wales!
Fifty years ago, I sometimes would buy canned candied chestnuts from France. Delicious. One of the applications was to put the candied chestnuts and the syrup over ice cream. 😋 Really tasty, and pretty fancy if you want it to be.
Matt is a lucky man. I haven't seen chestnuts at all for so long.
I remember watching a documentary about the American Chestnut trees and all about the blight taking them out. I hope that honest people through the help of The Creator can heal those tree experiments back to new life. What a thoughtful and creative Christmas gift. Ira and Matt had me laugh out loud. Ira around minute 21 with his excited(?) squeal, and Matt about the "acren/acorn" debate that you talk like you are from about the line and he talks like where he's from. I love how your conversations could be just like something we would be saying in our household too : ) That's part of what draws so many people to your videos, just being yourself and so many people can identify with that.
Sorry you and Matt have been sick I'll pray for you to have a speedy recovery Happy New Year ❤
Thank you 😊
Happy new year to you and your wonderful family i just watched your video missing pap today i cried so hard because everything you said i felt my pap died 11yrs ago but it seems just yesterday ive been lost since the day he left your words are so real tipper the love and memories you have of him its just as i have but thank you so much for that my mama is ninty she and pap where married for 57 yrs your brother paul looks alot like him keep up with your great videos gods live and blessings❤
Thank you for sharing the information about chestnuts. I haven't ever had them, but I might need to try them now! So sorry y'all have been dealing with the crud. Praying you all feel better soon. Also, loved hearing baby Ira in the background...so SWEET!☺
Thank you! Ira is so precious 😊
I sure hope Matt feels better soon. ❤
My dad's favorite roasted chestnuts I've only eaten them one time at the Nature Center we had them during reindeer week on these cold nights and hot chestnuts hit the spot
Praying for all of you hope Matt gets better soon Ira sounds so sweet Happy New Year to all
Hi Tipper and Matt, I have had raw chestnuts but not roasted ones and I'm going to have to try them sometime.
I'm glad your feeling better Tipper. I'm sorry that you aren't feeling good Matt, I hope you feel better soon. I'm sending Healing Prayers for You.😊❤🙏🏻🙏🏻
I Hope Y'all had a Great New Year!😊❤🎉
Prayers for you all to get well. Happy New Year
That was very interesting... I love,love chestnuts.. used to buy them at grocery store certain time of the year,,then they were just gone,,and i wondered... Yes, i love them any way,,,raw and dried out,,they are sweet..Great Video..
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy New Year. Hope you get well soon Matt. Pass the nuts please. 😊 God Bless. ❤& 🙏🙏's for all. Jean
Thank you 😊
I remember when I was young my neighbor had chestnut trees and he would give us some at Halloween and I loved them and couldn’t wait to get them love your family and videos
Thank you!
Growing up in Illinois we had chestnut and walnut tress in our yard. Loved eating them. We only tried roasting them once.
I sure do miss them.
Prayers for Matt to feel better soon! Happy New Year to y'all!
Hope you get to feelin better Matt 🙏🏻
Thanks for sharing this; very interesting