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 🤣
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.
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.
@@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? 😟
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!
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
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
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! :)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
@@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.
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. 😊👏🏻
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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! 💯🇺🇸❣️
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!
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.
My meemaw was from Arkansas and we had these meals. My other grandma "Nana" was an Irish lass and we had similar meals but with an Irish twist. I love those memories having two pairs of beautiful grandparents.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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 : )
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 .
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 👍❤
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.
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.
The thing I remember most as a child was watching my mother and grandmas hands while they prepared meals or canning food for the family. Maybe it’s kind of silly but I could feel their love by watching there hands! It was kinda like them saying,I love you, just by watching theirs hands and not saying a word.
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. 😥
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.
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.
"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
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. ❤️
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. 💗
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.
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.
That breakfast looks amazing. Growing up here in Hawaii my granny and mom would fry bananas in butter for breakfast. The fried apples look awesome. Thank you for sharing. Have a great Sunday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
Well, that is just Heaven's own breakfast right there! I love making biscuits and gravy on a Saturday, but have never tried the fried apples. I definitely will give those a try this weekend! "Breakfast for Dinner" has long been on the menu in our house, as well as when I was growing up. I don't know what it is about eating breakfast in the evening, but it just seems right some days.
I’m British, and breakfast for dinner (or tea as we call it here, and I don’t mean the drink, which we also have lots of) is super common. I’m sure you’ve heard of a full English breakfast with sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, black pudding (blood sausage), mushrooms, toast, and haggis (I’m Scottish so I like to add it to make a full Scottish breakfast). It’s the ultimate comfort food.
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. 🙂
Thanks, that was a fun video to watch! At 77 yrs old I have never had such a big breakfast, and have never had sausage gravy. My mother was very strict about how much fat we ate but.weekend breakfasts were real special though, because we usually had waffles with maple syrup and sometimes bacon with our eggs, fried or lightly scrambled, and always had fresh squeezed orange juice because we lived in California and they grew in grandmas yard alongside an avocado tree and two persimmon trees. My mom told me my first baby foods were from those trees. No wonder I love them. We sure do like what we were raised on, although I never did learn to like venison. My dad was an avid hunter and brought home a yearly buck that everyone but me raved about. I really liked the wild duck and especially the wonderful fresh trout. When our family camped in the high Sierras in the 50s-60s we ate trout for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it was so delicious! Such flavors can't be captured these days! I have advised my grandchildren to veer far away from a path leading to fast food as a substitute for a real meal. Thankfully, they have listened .
Hoo Boy, this takes me back! First off, I can smell this video and it's delicious! Grew up with Mom making biscuits in the cast iron skillet and browning the sausage in the other one (usually from the store, but now I'm lucky enough to support local farms and buy it there); Dad was the gravy specialist and his was always perfect. No eggs as there was only 2 skillets. After the biscuits were done, we sometimes fried apples to round it out. I also fry apples and onions together as a side for pork roast sometimes. Both families grew up in upstate NY, but Mom's Dad was Tennessee through and through, so that's likely where she learn it. Listened to you making breakfast, while I was making 'brinner' -- waffles and bacon this time, with local maple syrup!
TH-cam randomly suggested this video to me, and I’m so glad it did! As a 5th generation Coloradoan, it’s so interesting to watch the traditional ways of other parts of the country. What a great breakfast and you explain things so well 😊
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.
My grandparents were from Tennessee and Virginia. You cook just like they did. Watching and listening to you bring back so many fond memories! Thank you.
That gravy looked so good. We like to shred our sausage and then mix it into the gravy to go over the biscuits. We usually only eat a heavy breakfast like that for supper, and just have a lighter breakfast, maybe just an apple or at most a bowl of oatmeal. I definitely agree that making gravy is one of those things you just have to learn by doing, but it's not hard once you figure it out.
That's how my grandparents did it. Just oatmeal every morning and a very light lunch. Meat and home grown vegetables for dinner, maybe some preserved fruit for dessert. My grandfather lived into his 90's and my grandmother is still kicking.
@David Durrett, I agree. My mother taught each of my five younger siblings and me to cook from the age of nine. With experience, I was making good gravy before I was ten as well as cooking many, many other dishes.
Felt like sitting in my grandmas kitchen, her teaching her traditional ways of cooking telling tales of her youth and just in general be a little escape from reality for the weekend whenever i went there. Thanks alot for the content, brought back a bunch of treasured faded memories. All the best for you and yours this year 🙌🏼
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.
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.
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
Ain’t nothing wrong with eating like this we all know if it ain’t food that’s gonna get us well it’s stress ,love the recipe for everything keep making these videos
I like the simple way this family eats... I enjoyed the history behind your meal My Grandma always cooked huge breakfast's early by 5a because it fed our large family until she made dinner by 5p- 6 in the evening. Eggs, grits or potatoes/ biscuits any kind of meat we had available bacon, ham, sausage, smothered chicken/ pork chops, hot links and fish. Fruit was peaches, honey dew melons/ cantaloupe/ watermelon, different berries, apples The trip to town was to get barrels with sugar, flour, rice , oatmeal with horse and buggy. We all worked together on the farm😊 Granddaddy had a smoke house and we jarred food, had pecan trees and a yearly garden, never wasted
I made this whole breakfast recently with my husband. We all absolutely loved it and will be making it again (soon). Thank you so much for sharing your recipes and heritage!
Wow❗Takes me back in time 60 years. The only other thing I would add would be fried potatoes , and a pinch of cinnamon to the fried apples. My mom was the best cook in whole world, and second best ain't bad at all. Sure made me hungry. 🤣👍 PS. Can't remember how she made her chocolate gravy, but it sure was good. We were from southeastern part of Kentucky .
I'm just now seeing your video...Reminds me so much of my Mother God Rest Her Soul...Thank you for being who you are to share that type of cooking with Love like my Mother did. Absolutely amazing ❤
This was so lovely to watch! So many aspects of your kitchen reminded me of my grandmother (I’m 53) especially the Postum beverage jar! Being from the the west coast I’ve never had the infamous biscuits and gravy but admit I’ll have to try your recipe. As a kid, weekend breakfasts for us consisted of eggs Benedict. I then married and spent 15 years in England and adore a classic British fry up of eggs, back bacon, bangers, fried bread, beans, tomato, & mushroom. Often served with what is called ‘brown sauce’. I believe very slowly and outside the plant based movement, the appreciation for buying meat & dairy directly from the farmer is once again gaining traction. Thank you again!
Also, my family raised hogs and we made our own sausage. Washtubs full. I remember it was a bit hot for me but liked it. Grandpa and grandma raised red peppers and sage,they dried it and ground it and that went into the sausage mix. Fried it and canned it. Delish!
Both my parents were from the South. My Dad was from Texas and my Mom was from Tennesee. I was raised with Southern cooking. I've had red eye gravy with ham. On the weekend we would have the big breakfast like you make. During the week both my parents worked outside the home and I would be dropped off at a babysitter who would see that I went to school. Mostly during the week it would be cold cereal and milk or if it was winter hot cereal like cream of wheat and toast. Fruit was usually eaten like a snack. Now days I have coffee and whatever I feel like eating for breakfast. I will sometimes eat dinner for breakfast or leftovers. I don't eat a consistent type of breakfast everyday.
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. 🙂
It was like watching my mother cook breakfast, your methods are just minor variations of what I was taught at home. Since I watched on my mother's 115th birthday it was a bittersweet joy to see. If you can get apples from Carroll County Virginia, you might not need the sugar at all.
Aww, I loved this! It reminded me of growing up on the farm here in Arizona. My Grandma made the same kind of breakfasts and boy did your meal remind me of those days. I sure do miss it...and my Grandma. God Bless.
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.
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 🤣
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.
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.
@@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? 😟
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.
This is why we American's are fat 😊
If someone made me an amazing hearty breakfast from scratch like this, I wouldn't stop singing their praises for the rest of my life. :)
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!
Hello I am in southest ohio too
We appreciate your support! So glad you're enjoying our videos 😀
I just moved to Central OH from southern Ohio.
Southern Ohio 54 year old man here. It took sometime to realize that this was my culture.
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Grandma made the best breakfast. Biscuit and gravy, eggs, salt pork, fried apples
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
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! :)
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.
It might be Angel Biscuits that you're thinking about.
@@mslaurelms1 Angel Biscuits? Now I have to look those up! Thank you! :)
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.
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
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!
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@@Thehubb1 The past one and maybe the future one as well.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
this is what i see your a woman and a blessing for your family. Ronald Reid from Yukon,ok
Made biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon ,and fried apples this morning for my family for breakfast in my part of Appalachia- Southern Ohio.
That's great!
An awful lot of Appalachians wound up in OH, MI, and IN working in the auto industry back in the 50's.
@@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.
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.
@@0Hillbilly I understand missing the hills. I think it's in us hill folks dna. 🤔
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. 😊👏🏻
Putting together a meal like that is a real art! What a cook!
@@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!
I so appreciate your kind words!! Gives me real encouragement 😀
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.
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.
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.
Your mother sounds wonderful 😀
Mine too 😊
@@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.
@@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 😀
It is amazing how some folks can manage all that!
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!
Same here. Floods me with memories of a lot of grandma's and aunts passed and gone.
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.
I appreciate the kind words thank you for watching!
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@@CelebratingAppalachia I just found this channel as well!! WONDERFUL!!!!!
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! 💯🇺🇸❣️
😀 You're so kind thank you!
Same here!! Breakfast is the best! Biscuits n sausage or chocolate gravy 😋
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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!
Wonderful!! So glad you enjoyed it. I'm so sorry you lost your sweet mama!!
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.
My meemaw was from Arkansas and we had these meals. My other grandma "Nana" was an Irish lass and we had similar meals but with an Irish twist. I love those memories having two pairs of beautiful grandparents.
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.
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.
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.
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May she rests in peace. Looks like you had a wonderful mother.
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.
@@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.
There’s something very soothing about the way she talks
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!
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 : )
Rite old timers could make a meal out of nothing.
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 .
😳🤯🤩🤩🤩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 🤩🤩
My mom too ,she was from Alabama
@@bigbub5219 Easier when food and rent was affordable.
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!
Thank you for the kind words 😀 Hope you have a great week!
Bless thier hearts.👏
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.
Wow, thank you 😀
This the mama everyone needs and wants.
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!!!!!
Yep!
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.
I can smell the sausage. Yummy
Same, it makes me miss my Gran so much
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.
17 kids?!?!?!Holy Moly🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏
I love how your husband shows everyone how to plate the way he likes it!
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.
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. 👍❤
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.
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.
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
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
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.
I could smell that breakfast through the screen. As someone from Appalachia, this really made me crave my grandmother's cooking :)
The thing I remember most as a child was watching my mother and grandmas hands while they prepared meals or canning food for the family. Maybe it’s kind of silly but I could feel their love by watching there hands! It was kinda like them saying,I love you, just by watching theirs hands and not saying a word.
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. 😥
frozen biscuits? don't be cursin on this page
Afternoon/Evening Miss Tipper this could make me hungry.
😀 It just might! Hope you've had a good day 😀
Makes you hungry! I gain weight every time I watch her cook.😂
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.
We love apples 😀
My name is Mr Peepers
We had apple trees
Apples and pork is very English.
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.
"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
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. ❤️
Buttermilk and lard are the best for biscuits.
I always use buttermilk & Hussons Cream self rising flour & that's it. I melt bacon grease in a hot iron skillet & bake them. 😋
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.
@@Riskmangler I think you are right! Lol
Just keep at it-
All that practice is what makes mammow’s biscuits so good.
You’ll get there!
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.
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!
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.
Love that!
We call it the same thing. Probably have breakfast for dinner a few times a month.
This is the kind of breakfast my grandmother would always cook when we were at the farm.
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.
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.
Welcome to our channel and thank you 😀
@Harold Zwingley that's right, I was thinking of trans fat.
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!
My Appalachian Pippa, always gauged his breakfast by fried apples, if he had them he had a good breakfast!🐶🐱🐈
Love that 😀
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.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Fulton county, KY and this reminds me way too much of growing up there.
Breakfasts for supper is this girl's favorite.
I had breakfast for dinner last night 🤤
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.
Fried squirrel, what does that taste like
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
Fried apples were always my favorite snack after getting home from school. This brought back a lot of nostalgia. ❤️
I'm glad you enjoyed it Molly 😀
I feel that if everybody in the world could experience biscuits and gravy, we would have a much better, peaceful world.
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.
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.
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.
This is like something my mom's family in West Virginia would make. Looks delicious
Yea, you know what's good!
This totally gets the Eastern Kentucky stamp of approval as well!
For supper mom would make squirrel gravy and biscuits
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. 💗
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.
So glad you enjoy our videos 😀
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.
Fresh tomatoes sliced in the gravy is so good we cook this way in mississippi also its good eating
That breakfast looks amazing. Growing up here in Hawaii my granny and mom would fry bananas in butter for breakfast. The fried apples look awesome. Thank you for sharing. Have a great Sunday.
I've never had fried bananas 😀 I bet my girls would love them.
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.
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.
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.
Born in Rome Georgia and my mom used to make these kinds of breakfasts every Sunday morning before church.
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.
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.
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!!!
@@randymiller3949 OH, wow! I'm older than your mom. I'm 78, but I still love down-home cooking.
Tomato gravy pulled apart bread fried taters an liver wurst was a regular meal for us .my mouth waters at the thought
Well, that is just Heaven's own breakfast right there! I love making biscuits and gravy on a Saturday, but have never tried the fried apples. I definitely will give those a try this weekend! "Breakfast for Dinner" has long been on the menu in our house, as well as when I was growing up. I don't know what it is about eating breakfast in the evening, but it just seems right some days.
Breakfast for dinner is the best comfort food.
I’m British, and breakfast for dinner (or tea as we call it here, and I don’t mean the drink, which we also have lots of) is super common. I’m sure you’ve heard of a full English breakfast with sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, black pudding (blood sausage), mushrooms, toast, and haggis (I’m Scottish so I like to add it to make a full Scottish breakfast). It’s the ultimate comfort food.
You are a goddess of the kitchen..
I am in envy of your family breakfast.
Thank you so much 😀
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. 🙂
Thanks, that was a fun video to watch! At 77 yrs old I have never had such a big breakfast, and have never had sausage gravy. My mother was very strict about how much fat we ate but.weekend breakfasts were real special though, because we usually had waffles with maple syrup and sometimes bacon with our eggs, fried or lightly scrambled, and always had fresh squeezed orange juice because we lived in California and they grew in grandmas yard alongside an avocado tree and two persimmon trees. My mom told me my first baby foods were from those trees. No wonder I love them. We sure do like what we were raised on, although I never did learn to like venison. My dad was an avid hunter and brought home a yearly buck that everyone but me raved about. I really liked the wild duck and especially the wonderful fresh trout. When our family camped in the high Sierras in the 50s-60s we ate trout for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it was so delicious! Such flavors can't be captured these days! I have advised my grandchildren to veer far away from a path leading to fast food as a substitute for a real meal. Thankfully, they have listened
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Tipper, you did an amazing job.
In the summer I loved also a garden tomato slices right next to my biscuit and gravy. Thanks for sharing
Tomato goes so good with biscuit 😀 Thank you!
I was going to say, the only thing missing is fresh sliced heirloom tomato.
Your children will have suck wonderful memories of the meals and family time you had together. What a Blessing! 👍🙏😊😘
My family is from southwest Virginia and my grandmother had made similar breakfasts whenever we visited. This brings back lots of memories. Thank You.
Hoo Boy, this takes me back! First off, I can smell this video and it's delicious! Grew up with Mom making biscuits in the cast iron skillet and browning the sausage in the other one (usually from the store, but now I'm lucky enough to support local farms and buy it there); Dad was the gravy specialist and his was always perfect. No eggs as there was only 2 skillets. After the biscuits were done, we sometimes fried apples to round it out. I also fry apples and onions together as a side for pork roast sometimes. Both families grew up in upstate NY, but Mom's Dad was Tennessee through and through, so that's likely where she learn it. Listened to you making breakfast, while I was making 'brinner' -- waffles and bacon this time, with local maple syrup!
Thank you! sounds like you were eating good 😀
I swear I can smell the grease , cooking.
TH-cam randomly suggested this video to me, and I’m so glad it did! As a 5th generation Coloradoan, it’s so interesting to watch the traditional ways of other parts of the country. What a great breakfast and you explain things so well 😊
Thank you for watching glad you enjoyed 😀
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.
My grandparents were from Tennessee and Virginia. You cook just like they did. Watching and listening to you bring back so many fond memories! Thank you.
That gravy looked so good. We like to shred our sausage and then mix it into the gravy to go over the biscuits.
We usually only eat a heavy breakfast like that for supper, and just have a lighter breakfast, maybe just an apple or at most a bowl of oatmeal.
I definitely agree that making gravy is one of those things you just have to learn by doing, but it's not hard once you figure it out.
Thank you David! I used to work with a lady who made her gravy like that-it was good 😀
Oh yeah, even most of the little Diners around here serve sausage gravy.
That's how my grandparents did it. Just oatmeal every morning and a very light lunch. Meat and home grown vegetables for dinner, maybe some preserved fruit for dessert. My grandfather lived into his 90's and my grandmother is still kicking.
@David Durrett, I agree. My mother taught each of my five younger siblings and me to cook from the age of nine. With experience, I was making good gravy before I was ten as well as cooking many, many other dishes.
Felt like sitting in my grandmas kitchen, her teaching her traditional ways of cooking telling tales of her youth and just in general be a little escape from reality for the weekend whenever i went there.
Thanks alot for the content, brought back a bunch of treasured faded memories. All the best for you and yours this year 🙌🏼
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.
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.
You had fried peaches?? I have never heard of that. Interesting!
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
Looks delicious! My family loves having breakfast for supper! ❤️
Omg that's the best
Making all that wonderful multitasking look effortless deserves a deep appreciation that I’m hoping you get. Your healing energy in hypnotizing.
Ain’t nothing wrong with eating like this we all know if it ain’t food that’s gonna get us well it’s stress ,love the recipe for everything keep making these videos
I like the simple way this family eats...
I enjoyed the history behind your meal
My Grandma always cooked huge breakfast's early by 5a because it fed our large family until she made dinner by 5p- 6 in the evening.
Eggs, grits or potatoes/ biscuits any kind of meat we had available bacon, ham, sausage, smothered chicken/ pork chops, hot links and fish. Fruit was peaches, honey dew melons/ cantaloupe/ watermelon, different berries, apples
The trip to town was to get barrels with sugar, flour, rice , oatmeal with horse and buggy.
We all worked together on the farm😊
Granddaddy had a smoke house and we jarred food, had pecan trees and a yearly garden, never wasted
This was wholesome and peaceful. Thanks for sharing your table with us for a minute. It really felt like we were visiting with you.
It’s so good to see folks cook like we do. Your channel is such a blessing!
Thanks so much 😀
I remember my grandma making this. Can't wait to cook this up and give my Aussie daughter a taste of my birth country.
I made this whole breakfast recently with my husband. We all absolutely loved it and will be making it again (soon). Thank you so much for sharing your recipes and heritage!
Glad you liked it!!
Wow❗Takes me back in time 60 years. The only other thing I would add would be fried potatoes , and a pinch of cinnamon to the fried apples. My mom was the best cook in whole world, and second best ain't bad at all. Sure made me hungry. 🤣👍 PS. Can't remember how she made her chocolate gravy, but it sure was good. We were from southeastern part of Kentucky .
I'm just now seeing your video...Reminds me so much of my Mother God Rest Her Soul...Thank you for being who you are to share that type of cooking with Love like my Mother did. Absolutely amazing ❤
This was so lovely to watch! So many aspects of your kitchen reminded me of my grandmother (I’m 53) especially the Postum beverage jar! Being from the the west coast I’ve never had the infamous biscuits and gravy but admit I’ll have to try your recipe. As a kid, weekend breakfasts for us consisted of eggs Benedict. I then married and spent 15 years in England and adore a classic British fry up of eggs, back bacon, bangers, fried bread, beans, tomato, & mushroom. Often served with what is called ‘brown sauce’. I believe very slowly and outside the plant based movement, the appreciation for buying meat & dairy directly from the farmer is once again gaining traction. Thank you again!
Also, my family raised hogs and we made our own sausage. Washtubs full. I remember it was a bit hot for me but liked it. Grandpa and grandma raised red peppers and sage,they dried it and ground it and that went into the sausage mix. Fried it and canned it. Delish!
Both my parents were from the South. My Dad was from Texas and my Mom was from Tennesee. I was raised with Southern cooking. I've had red eye gravy with ham. On the weekend we would have the big breakfast like you make. During the week both my parents worked outside the home and I would be dropped off at a babysitter who would see that I went to school. Mostly during the week it would be cold cereal and milk or if it was winter hot cereal like cream of wheat and toast. Fruit was usually eaten like a snack. Now days I have coffee and whatever I feel like eating for breakfast. I will sometimes eat dinner for breakfast or leftovers. I don't eat a consistent type of breakfast everyday.
You have a nice way of speaking
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. 🙂
It was like watching my mother cook breakfast, your methods are just minor variations of what I was taught at home. Since I watched on my mother's 115th birthday it was a bittersweet joy to see. If you can get apples from Carroll County Virginia, you might not need the sugar at all.
Looks really delicious. I’m Scottish and the sausages look like Lorne sausage . Your biscuits look like what we call scones. Yum!
Another Scot here. Reckon a lot of our Lorne wouldn't have enough fat for this, but I'm going to try it anyway. We're spoiled for apples of course
A lot of Appalachian people descended from Scottish immigrants.
I had breakfast for dinner last night.🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿😋😋😋😋
Do you call cookies biscuits? Lol
@@ChiTownGuerrilla yes we do!
Aww, I loved this! It reminded me of growing up on the farm here in Arizona. My Grandma made the same kind of breakfasts and boy did your meal remind me of those days. I sure do miss it...and my Grandma. God Bless.
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.
Awesome 😎 I grew up in Mill Creek Holler in Virginia and My Mother is from Alabama.... I had the best of both worlds....