I am a retired middle-school teacher who taught in a small Indiana town where lunches were prepared by incredible farm moms. Best lunches ever. Then, like you said, the government stuck its nose where it didn't belong and anything homemade became illegal. It was tough going for several years. And a I mean tough ... I could tell you some stories of horrible food served to children ...Glad to hear your garden is doing well. Love seeing you hand-loomed potholders. During the "lockdown" I wove over 200! It was a blast! Bless you for all you do for sooooo many people.God Bless America!

Apple sauce cobbler brought a tear to my eyes! Thought Mama was the only person to make it. She put big fluffy dumplings in it because she knew that was my favorite part! Please keep sharing these recipes! Precious memories!

I'm a retired teacher who loved the cobblers, rolls, cakes & goodies that our lunchroom ladies spoiled us with. As a kid I learned to eat quite a variety of good food when eating in the school cafeteria. We would be hungry and willing to try things that friends liked. Peer pressure used positively. By the time I retired, lunches weren't the same. No salt, no fat, no flavor. Kids and teachers were sneaking in salt and pepper shakers. We just acted like we didn't see them.

Looks great! I have never had applesauce cobbler. I definitely will give that a try. Someone should open a school cafeteria restaurant. We had the best food when I was a kid. Just like the recipes you talk about. The ladies there were excellent cooks and our cafeteria was so clean every day.

I love it when you share old memories! It makes me think of my grandma “nanny” and how she would make pear preserves every year. She knew I loved the syrup better than the fruit and she would always make them “extra soupy” just for me. What a joy it was to stand beside her with my hand in her apron pocket looking for a piece of bazooka bubble gum. She didnt have any teeth but she would suck on that bubble gum until it got soft enough for her to gum all the flavor from it.

Ms Lori, a jar of homemade lard wound be a most welcome gift for family and friends. I know I'd love it! ❤

God Bless America and God Bless the Browns! Love you muches!

Miss Lori, your hair is looking so cute, I really think it is very becoming. As usual you are right, there is nothing that says the 4th of July more than homemade ice cream and apple pie or cobbler.

I know this sounds silly but my grandmother, mom and myself have used three layers for a cobbler, particularly peach. A bottom, middle and a top. The middle…my absolute favorite. P.S. my grandmother was also from Arkansas!

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Thank you Ms Lori, and always good to see Mr. Brown too!

Growing up, my Mom and Dad made the old fashioned custard ice cream and us kids would take turns cranking the ice cream maker until our little arms could not crank any more, then Dad would take over and finish it off. I inherited that old ice cream maker and now make it with my grandkids. My kids enjoyed making it too but they did it with Grandma and Grandpa. It was something fun for them on the weekends, to go to the farm and help grandma and Grandpa with chores and then make ice cream.

I just love your beautifully cozy country kitchen. It seems there’s a lot of love in your home-that’s what always makes the difference in our cooking! I am making your Texas sheet cake for four today. Praying you are experiencing all of God’s blessings today, and that you and Mr. Brown are enjoying the day together. ❤🙏🏽

My 6 brothers and sisters, and cousins, had the best of times taking turns cranking the old ice cream maker. Homemade angel food cake and ice cream for every birthday and holiday. In later years, parents got an electric machine. Good times.

What a great recipe, Lori. Growing up with my grandparents on a farm and cattle ranch, we made lots of custard ice cream in the summertime. We would get a cantaloupe from the garden, grandpa would cut it open and scoop out flesh with hands and fill the center with the ice cream. Food memories are gold for the soul. I'm from Texas, but born in Arkansas. I have a special place in heart for that place.

Never heard of applesauce cobbler. Looks delicious! We used to make homemade ice cream at my great aunt and uncles. All of us nieces, nephews, and grandkids would take turns cranking it! Lot of good times back then and it so so good!

Happy Independence Day to you Miss Lori and Mr Brown. That cobbler and ice cream look mighty tasty. I’m sure everything you fix will be scrumptious. I’m working 11 hours today so I won’t be celebrating much. This is definitely a day to recognize and appreciate. Much love. ❤

I have such fond memories of taking turns at my grandparents turning the crank on those old freezers. There's nothing better than homemade custard ice cream.

I love red sink skirt....looks great...and red checkered stove cloth...happy fourth....the 🎉best think in your kitchen ,,IS YOU MRS LORI....🎉🎉🎉

Ms Lori you are surely bringing back some memories for me. My mama use to make ice cream kinda like that but she didn’t use whipping cream either she just put regular milk in hers and it was the best ice cream

Oh yummmm!!!! Happy 4th to the Brown family!!!

I'm a retired school teacher & librarian & we had the best cooks in our community working in our cafeteria so we enjoyed it very much, especially vegetables soup day, usually on Fridays & hotdog 🌭 day was so good, we even had french fries 🍟😊🎉we were spoiled 😊

I made lemon custard ice cream for the 4th. So good!

Happy 4th of July ! God bless all ya all. Much Love to you both Miss Lori. 🎉❤🎉

I love watching Mr. Brown taste test!!! Thank you Miss Lori for sharing 2 great recipes with us!!! Happy 4th of July!!! God Bless America!!!!!

Thank you Ms Lori for the applesauce cobbler and custard ice cream! Looks delicious, Happy 4th to you and Mr Brown. Love your videos.❤

I’ve never heard of an Applesauce cobbler but it sure looks good. When you were making the boiled custard, it made me think of my mother who made it every Christmas and Easter along with a fresh coconut cake. I too love the crust on cobblers and pies. Thank you for sharing. 😊🙏♥️

I love when your clock chimes. Reminds me of mom & dads home. My older son is inheriting their grandfather clock because when he was little mom said “Tommy don’t touch the weights!” Of course he did & the prints will never come off. Family history.

😋 yYummo! Thank you for your wonderful recipes and thoughts...just so soothing and good! Bless you and hubby and all the others 💗 Happy Independence Day !

Happy 4th🎉 That cobbler and homemade ice cream looks yummy!!

I enjoy all your recipes and listening to you and Mr Brown's storytelling of ya'll life I'm a retired school bus driver,

Thank you for this! I get so much applesauce in my community grocery boxes. Now I can make something sweet! I'll have to cut the recipe, because I live alone. Hey to you, Miss Lori and Mr. Brown!

Thanks again Miss Lori for these amazing sweet recipes! Mr. Brown is probably thanking our sweet Lord that you're able to stay home to fix his goodies. I'm glad you two were able to get to the river. God bless you and God bless America!!!

Delicious Ms. Lori! Good to see you and Mr. Brown. Happy 4th of July.

Cobbler and ice cream are a perfect combo. I made blackberry cobbler for a potluck this weekend. The hosts had homemade ice cream. We need rain for our gardens in NW Missouri. It keeps going just north of us.

Ms. Lori, when I was a kid me and my cousins were cranking homemade ice cream one day, and it was taking forever! My dad, upon checking the ice cream for the third time time, still was not done, saw my cousin get ahold of that crank and just go like crazy, and he noticed that she was left handed, and had been cranking backwards every time she took the crank. Once we got the "right" (handed) people on the job, we finally got to eat the ice cream! Funny!

My mom's b'day was July 4. She would have been 104. I used to make her a flag cake, bananas, strawberries and blueberries. Y'all have a great July 4th. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏

Trying raw milk ice cream tomorrow with peach cobbler The cobbler looks delish! Y’all will have some good home pork!! We had an oopsie and got 9 babies in the pig pen - we thought we was getting out of business ! 😂 someone visited where he should not have!! Oh well they will be so good!

All I can say is YUM!! Happy Independence Day, Miss Lori & Mr. Brown

My kind of cooking. Your voice is so soothing with good recipes like I grew up on. Happy 4th!!!

Yummy 😋 ! Happy 4th of July Ms Lori, Mr. Brown and rest of your family. God's speed.

Happy 4th Lori,Mr. Brown,and family!🙏💞🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I missed you all yesterday, but I pray that you had a Very Blessed 4th! These recipes look DELICIOUS! Thank You for sharing them with us and I can't wait to make them! God Bless You Both.❤️🛐

Thank you for taking time to share these recipes on this holiday weekend. Yummy 😋 y'all have a great 4th of July.

YUMMY Ms. Lori good to see Mr. Brown also!!! HAPPY 4th JULY MET FOR ALL WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY!!!

Happy 4th of July to You all from Alberta Canada! It's been awhile since we made old fashioned custard ice cream. It's the best< I agree. the applesauce cobbler looks delicious as well!

Beautiful memories of making ice cream as a child with my granny & papa❤ I miss them so much! I haven’t had that in 30 plus years! Guess I’ll be making some with my grandkids at the end of July❤

We had fresh frozen custard yesterday too! Great minds think alike!

Your recipes sound wonderful! Brings back memories of my Dad and uncles hand cranking custard ice cream! Precious memories! Blessings!

I'm appalled at my own profession for what they have done to school lunches. Thank heavens for good cooks like you who do the very best they can within some pretty insane guidelines. And are these kids healthier than we were when you guys got to cook really good food? Nope cardboard never satisfies. My sweet MIL made stacked apple pies with applesauce. So good.

I really enjoy your stories of your youth and as a school cook. We also loved when our cafeteria staff made cookies, cakes, soups and other goodies. Now we can only eat what is served to the students. Some of our wealthier schools picketed to allow the cafeteria staff to make fresh coffee cake, but most schools had to eat the individually made cakes (not so good). Happy Fourth of July to you!

God bless y’all!! That cobbler looks so good!!AND then homemade frozen custard!! That’s the BEST!! Hope you have a great 4th!!

God bless America and Happy 4th to y'all!

We all took turns turning the crank on our ice cream maker when I was a kid. My dad would add ice and rock salt and would do most of the cranking on that old machine. Lol. My mom always made the custard in the morning. I have such fond memories of making that delicious treat! I often make cobblers, but I've never made one with applesauce. I'm definitely going to try your recipe. We always enjoy everything I make from your recipes! ❤❤❤

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY MR. & MRS. BROWN 🇺🇸

Happy to see another great video. Happy 4th to you guys. My grandson is here for the month and I'm going to be making your no peek pork chops and rice for him 😉. I'm sure he's going to love it. Be safe you guys sending much loves and many hugs to you both

Yes, we use to go to pick bushel baskets full of peaches. ( I still have one of grandma's baskets) and when we were young, we would get to turn the crank. Great memories. Love you stories.

Thank you, Miss Lori for the cobbler recipe. I am going to try it. Looks delicious🙂

Happy 4th ppl! 🇺🇸 I love custard in various recipes too Have a very red, white and blue holiday inc patriot cakes, etc america!

Happy Independence Day!! The applesauce cobbler looks wonderful!! And oh my gosh that ice cream. I could have drank it right as it came off the stove!! Thank you, Mrs Lori and Mr. Brown! Please everybody stay safe this weekend! God bless one and all!! 🇺🇸

Happy 4th miss Lori and Mr. Brown so glad we're living in a free country God bless and keep you both

That applesauce cobbler looks so good. I've been getting hungry for apple butter pie but I think I will try the cobbler first! 💗

Mrs Lori,I just love your channel and the look on mr. Browns face when you make a special something is priceless. Thank you for teaching me new things and I'm 64 lol but you do.stay safe.Happy4th. To y'all

Oh boy!! What a combination!! Going to "have to" get an ice cream maker now. Lol. The applesauce cobbler is a winner, too. Yes, I will be making both of these real soon. Thank you!!

Yummy. Today my daddy would have 122. He loved his cobblers. Thanks for recipe. God bless you Mrs Lori and Mr Brown. Our tomatoes are suffering from too much rain in Kentucky 😢.

I’ve never had applesauce cobbler!! But will make one this coming weekend when all the children and grandchildren will be here to eat it. Miss seeing Mr. Brown, I enjoy his Bible Study time. He is going to have a bumper crop of potatoes, I believe he has been reciting some bible verses in his garden!! Wishing you, Mr Brown, and your children and grandchildren a Happy 4th of July and May God continue to Bless the Brown Family.

Happy Independence Day, Mrs. Lori and Mr. Brown! Oh my goodness! That custard ice cream brings back wonderful childhood memories. It’s delicious with peaches or strawberries. Yum! I’m definitely going to have to make some soon! Never tried applesauce cobbler, but will give that a try as well. ❤

I cannot wait to make both. You always have the best recipes.

Nothing like our childhood huh Miss Lori. It was the best. I have the exact same memories.

Peaches would be absolutely perfect with this recipe 😋 God bless yall 👍

Mrs.Lori I just love you and Mr. Brown and would love to spend some time with y'all. These recipes look and sound delicious I'm going to make this cobbler for sure I don't have an ice cream maker but the custard will make a wonderful banana pudding. Thank you for sharing with us.

I was gifted an ice cream maker today. A 4 quart. I used all my cream to make butter so I mixed up a batch of gelato. Tomorrow- on the 4th of July I’ll make my first ever homemade gelato for my grands. They won’t know the difference…. It’ll be super yummy in the sugar cones I got for them. I had 8 cups of raw milk. I’m sure it’ll be delicious. I’ll get some cream and make a custard ice cream next time. Thank you Miss Lori, this is perfect timing!

Reminds me of childhood, men would go down to creek to break up ice to put around the churn. When custard 36:50 getting set up we took turns cranking the handle or sitting on the bucket until done. Best memory ever!

Happy 4th of July Lori and Dan. That ice cream looks sinfully delicious!

So grateful for your work Ms. Lori❤I made your custard pie the other night.not a single leftover crumb!!

I just wanted to tell you that I just watched the grandpas hands video and I wonder if your own children know how blessed they are to have the two of you? I am going to make your brownies today! I and so grateful that you mentioned Becky and the loss of her husband.prayers for her and her family.What caused his death,do you know? Feeling blessed to have you in my life!

Oh I would LOVE that cobbler! I dont like big chunks of fruit in a cobbler. Gotta make this one! 👌

I was thinking a cobbler would be nice today! Thanks for the recipe, hope you and your family have a Safe and Happy 4th! Ice cream looks great! 🥰💕❤️👍👍. My garden is really late because it’s been cooler than usual and now it’s been heating up. I planted peas, zucchini, sweet peppers and tomatoes today I’ll plant some spinach in the shade, that usually works well. I harvested some potatoes for my 4th supper.

Happy 4th to you and yours! Always enjoy you sweet lady! Our potatoes here in Ky are doing good as well! 🥰

As always a wonderful recipe the both of you have a wonderful Fourth of July and enjoy eating as much of that apple sauce, cobbler and homemade ice cream as you can just stay in to eat and I know you’ll enjoy it lol. 😂 ❤

Oh my goodness! Looks so good! Have never thought of an applesauce cobbler. My favorite part of a cobbler is the thickened juice and crust. Don't need the fruit for me. Soooo glad to see y'all are ok. The weather has been so bad lately and Every time Arkansas. was mentioned I thought of y'all. God bless you both! 🪅🎇🇺🇸

Happy 4th of July. God's blessings to you and Mr. Brown.

We bought a hand crank/electric ice cream maker for our kids and grands to enjoy! So many wonderful memories if Dad making ice cream in dog days if summer un Virginia! We all took turns cranking!

Happy Independence Day from me to U! Our country has been blessed🎉😊 Take care

Amen. It looks so good, and many blessings, and thanks for sharing

That looks so good Miss Lori! One of my fondest memories as a child was watching grandma mix up the ice cream custard and then me and my sisters would take turns sitting in the ice cream maker and turning it by hand. It would wear us out, but was so worth it. We especially liked our ice cream on top of homemade blackberry cobbler. Thank you for sharing this with us. It really brings back wonderful memories...and some good eating too. 😊

Happy 4th of July. I have this same Cruisnart ice cream maker. I love mine too. Making some strawberry ice cream tomorrow too. Love Danny's face eating everything you fix. Love you guys. God is so Good..

Thank you sharing. Have Happy Fourth of July. God bless you both💕🌸🇺🇸

Happy 4th to you and the family❤️🇺🇲❤️

Happy 4TH MISS Lori and family. Im going try applesauce cobbler.

Looks delicious Ms Lauri.happy 4th to you and Mr Brown 💗🐝🌼🌻

I absolutely love looking at your kitchen on this videos.

Mrs. Lori you make it all so so inviting n delicious. Cobbler n icecream. Thanks for hard work.

Oh my goodness! That looks sooo yummy!!

I wish I had good food like that when I was in school. Wow. It was very unhealthy. Everything looks so good. Bless you both. Happy independence day.

Happy Independent Day.🎇💥🧨💥🧨🎇 .Mrs . Lori ,Mr. Brown And Family. Nothing better than homemade ice cream . Applesauce Cobbler or pie . Thanks for sharing your recipes. The Lord Bless All Of You .❤😊

How delicious, applesauce cobbler and custard ice cream! Yummy! Happy Independence Day! God bless you and Mr. Brown and God bless America! 🙏🏻 🇺🇸

Ms Lori ,it all looks so good .I feel the need to pour my heart out to you and ask for yalls prayers. Ive been sick for so long I just revoked hospice .However my eyesight is so poor that it would literally take months to write a legible one.I wanted to let you know that about 7 years ago I stumbled across a recipe from a church cook book .I tried it and it changed my life for as long as I was able to continue to cook. I thought I would pass it on. I discovered when making any kind of cream pie,puddings or whatnot to nix all your dry ingredients together in a sauce pan ,then beat your egg yolks into your milk or liquid .Turn your burner om and just slowly whisk your wet into the dry and keep stirring till it's reachs desired thickness. It's absolutely amazing . No lumps or bits of egg.Wishing You,Mr Brown along with all your family a Happy 4th and let none of us ever forget .No matter what our circumstances Our LORD GOD blesses us abundantly every day.❤❤❤❤

My father preferred applesauce pie. Mother nevermade a regular apple pie. Slow hand cranked ice cream churned by Dad was the best!

I had plants come up volunteer of potatoes in my raised beds. I left them go. And some are blooming. I have 2 full beds of them. What ever I get will be a gift. Maybe I can get a crop of green beans when they are done.

My garden started off real good and then it got to be 108 degrees and windy so I lost quite a bit. Shade cloth has helped a lot. Happy 4th . Stay safe.