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I was going to leave a comment but i drooled all over my phone.😁

We loved my grandmother's fried pies! I recently found her old hand written recipe. One of my favorite memories was helping my grandmother make mountains of fried pies before an all night tent revival and singin' (my grandfather was a minister). We sold the fried pies at a concession to earn money for the visiting gospel band! What a night it was. The older ladies wore finger curls and had their stockings rolled down, as was popular when they were young. People sang and marched around the open sided tent and everybody went home happy and full of good food.

Here in Georgia we love peach fried pies.

My granddaddy grew up in eastern Kentucky and then moved to Asheville. He and my Granny moved to eastern North Carolina (where she grew up) when they married after WWII. One thing she always made that our family LOVED was sweet potato fried pies that she called jacks. She used lard to make the dough and fried the jacks to perfection in her electric skillet. I can just taste them now and miss my Granny so very much!

My Mom made these back in the 50's she usually used 'dries apples' as the filling! I miss 'em and miss MOM as well!

Huge lesson on why we need to actually talk to our grannies before they leave us. So wish I had asked my granny why her "mole" was out of this world - think she came from the Oaxaca region in Mexico. Recipe lost forever now. I just want me a fried apple pie right about now regardless of where it came from. Do remind me of fried churros with cinnamon sugar sprinkle and apple/cinnamon filling though.

Mother made these for my dad's lunch for all the years he worked graveyard shift . She made filling from any fruit she could get and even made green tomato mince filling for them . . . if you've had homemade you'd never consider store bought.....thank you for sharing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here in the Philippines they have a food they call “empanada” it is like your fried pie... but the ingredients is a quite different.... has ground pork, a bean that is like kidney beans, potato chunks and sometimes there’s a chunks of pineapple....sometimes peas.... it’s quite delicious! Apple butter would be outstanding!

My mom made fried pies from time to time. I made a few myself. They never lasted 24 hours. We always had apples, peaches, figs, pears, sweet potatoes, plums, blackberry and raisins and nuts. Mom made chocolate and pecan from scratch. I liked making vanilla, powdered sugar and lemon juice icing drizzled over the pies. Oh my, the years did fly by swiftly.

I'm familiar with mule-eared chairs, but not mule-eared pies, lol. My mother-in-law made such wonderful fried pies. She fried them in an iron skillet and the crust ended up being very dark, but didn't taste burned at all. I hope when I get to Heaven where I believe she is now, that Jesus will let her make me some fried pies. She would love doing that. Diane in NC (a NC foothills woman)

I remember my patetnal grandmother (in Arkansas) making fried pies, peach I think. She got cancer when I was about in the 2nd grade so I didn't get a chance to learn much from her. Some memories I have with her include digging up sassafras roots, her making what I've seen called hillbilly goulash, and poke salad in the spring.

Again thanke right kindly young lady, memories of my Grandmother and my Mother making pies and cakes from scratch. Remembering the breakfast strong black coffee, Tennessee chicken (streak o lean) battered and fried, biscuits, eggs, fried potatoes.. now in the twilight of my life, sometimes i forget the things that truly matter

Wonderful memories. Fried pies were part of my packed lunch I carried to grade school, wrapped in wax paper. My grandmother often used Apple Butter as filling.

Your a Lady after my own heart! Fried pies, is a part of life here in the hills of Arkansas, any kind, even meat pies! I know ladies that bake there's, and they are good! Oh, my mouth is watering We need to get together and cook!! And talk about family and heritage, hopefully, one day You are doing so well, keep up the wonderful videos, God Bless, xoxoxo

As a child working at the tobacco barn in rural Granville County we were often treated with fried pies usually around 10:00 in the morning. So glad to have grown up in the country.

Memories... My great aunt would always dry apples, I hadn't thought about that in years, she would spend hours slicing up apples then spread them out on sheets that she would have on every roof that she could reach, the house, the shed, the barn, anywhere and everywhere she could find room. I was young maybe 5 or 6 and so impressed at how the apples would change in texture.

We had fried pies for dessert more than any other sweets in our home. My favorite was the chocolate ones. My mother would mix cocoa and sugar and put the mix on a round of dough, add a bit of butter and fold it the same as you do. when they were done, the filling was crystallized and crunchy. I miss those days and the smells are locked in my memory. Thank you for sharing, keep on with the videos.

my granny made fried pies when i was a kid, usually apple. i haven't had one in 30+ years. i'm gonna have to make some.

Filled with fig preserves is my favorite.

My mother made the best fried apple pies. Of course, she made them with lard and fried them in lard in an iron skillet.

My maternal grandparents were born and raised in eastern Kentucky. They came to Indiana to work in the factories. I remember my granny making these for us. There were so good.

Growing up in Central Virginia I ate more then my fair share of Fried apple, peach, and whatever other kinds people would make. To this day I still say one of my favorite things is the fried apple. I moved last summer to Nebraska to be closer to some of my grandchildren and watching your video made me a little homesick. Thank you for showing everyone how good southern cooking is and can be. I hope you and your family have a great day.

There's nothing better than a homemade fried pie and a good cup of coffee. Yours look great!

My mom used to do this. I have a friend that sell them when I had a yard sale with her . People loved them lol she did better than myself.

We had tart apple trees in our yard and my grannie, who lived with us, dried those apples every summer. When it looked like rain, we had to run out to the backyard and save the drying apples. As soon as the sun came out, we dragged those apples back out to the yard. Mama would make the pies all winter long. They were very good.

I remember my Grandmother making those! She couldn't make them fast enough. We would stand right by the stove and eat them as soon as they came out of the oil!😊 She made them with apples, peaches and pears and I think she made them with apricots too.😊🐝❤

My favorite filling for a fried pie is cherry from our trees, after that the Blackberries are ripe and then in the winter it is raisin filling---Now you have made me hungry!

.....My grandmother in Alabama lived with my aunt, uncle and cousins . She made fried pies a little smaller than yours and they were delicious. A platter of them was left on the center of the stove and my cousins and I would eat them on the run for a snack as long as they lasted. Your videos are so relaxing to watch and bring back many memories of days gone by. May God continue to bless you and yours and your happy home.

Here in Henderson County Tennessee ( west Tennessee) a favorite filling for over a hundred years has been apricot. Apricot fried pies have always been my personal favorite.

Ma'am, I knew from the first time I saw you and heard you on KZfaq, that you were "MY PEOPLE"!! Them fried pies look just like my Granny's, and that's a COMPLIMENT!! Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, they are a staple!! I used to help my Granny dry apple's on them ol homemade screens and watch the "flies" help dry um.......She would laugh and say it was the "fly manure" that made um so good, lol!! I don't know if that was the trick, lol, but they sure were good after they came out of that ol black cast iron skillet!! Keep on posting our MOUNTAIN HERITAGE, cause their ain't many of us left anymore. Mountain People are "God's gift to American Culture"!!

My grandmother made me little apple pies for lunch. I walked home for my lunch as we lived in town. School up on the hill. I can still taste those pies. If I was granted one wish, it would be to have my mommy back to share computers, cell phones, iRobot floor sweepers, going to the moon. She would be so amazed. I always called her mommy as she raised me. I miss her every day. ❤️ Love those pies. 😋 yum

Just subscribed, earlier today. What have I got myself into?! I am trying SO HARD to Not Need this. My Nanny preferred Hudson Cream. 💗 I have not looked, yet - Do you have a video on drying and reconstituting apples?! I'm ready to cry at the possibility. Thank you for doing so much to preserve history and now.

Dear Tipper, Three days ago I sent my "little" brother a long text about my memories of dear Mother making fried pies when I was just a little girl. (My brother is a lot younger than me, and Mother no longer made these delicious little treasures after he was born.) Mother's "go to" filling was raisins! She would cook raisins on the stove until tender, making a sweet, thick syrup and then spooned the raisin filling into the dough rounds. She fried them in a little butter/shortening/oil in one of our well used black cast-iron skillets. Those are beautiful memories of my mother in the kitchen, lovingly making delicious food for her family. I thank God for giving me the gift of this particular video popping up right now, because it was truly a gift and I needed it. He is so Good! Thank you, Tipper.

I have never seen anyone use a “church key” to open sealed lids on a jar.We always used a butter knife or a spoon to wrestle them open.Just shows even an old man like me can learn from your videos. Thank you again for bringing back so many wonderful memories

11:11...reminds me of what my grandpa would say when we went to a REALLY good hole in the wall restaurant. "You can't eat atmosphere" lol. He always had jokes too. And a hanky. Fav filling: ive had some mighty good peach pies and apricot is what i used to make when I lived in the south and everybody appreciated a fried pie with a glass of sweet milk.

My grandmother made fried pies when I was a kid. She used dried apples and fried hers. We didn’t like them with the sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on them (go figure!) so she didn’t put it on them. We loved them. Thank you for bringing back fond memories.

I'm from South Georgia and was raised in the country. I remember these with such fondness. Miss those days and wish todays world offered those wonderful times with all those who have come since.

Both my grandmothers were well known makers of what they called "Jack pies". Never knew where the name came from, I was always too busy eating them to ask. haha My mom has passed down her recipe to me and now I'm teaching the next generation the delights of fried pies, no matter what you call them.

My late mother made them once a year a friend of hers who had a small orchard would give her a bag of dried apples once a year and my mother would make them out of canned biscuit dough

While I was active duty all my Birthday and Christmas presents were all the things I missed most from back home, White Lily flour being one of them.

My granny made fried cocoa pies here in the flat woods of Tennessee, yummmm

Apple fried pies are so good! I am glad to know you can bake them. I have never tried dried apple filling. I make a kind of unusual one but at Christmas everyone loves them. I use a jar of mincemeat with a finely chopped apple and tangerine added. It is like holding and smelling Christmas in your hand!!

My mom made apricot Fried Pies and sometimes blackberry when they were in season.... I still remember how good the crust was. She had a little roller she ran around the edge to seal them. I think they were even better cold

These look delicious! Oh yes, Miss Lori at Whippoorwill Holler has lots of amazing recipes. I’m going to make some fry pie! Oh my goodness I can’t choose a favorite ! Lemon 🍋 chocolate 🍫 apple🍎 peach 🍑 blueberry 🫐 they’re all good!

My grandmother made mango dumplings. But they were really little baked pies. My grandpa would pick some mangoes on his walk in the morning. They lived on Maui. It's a memory I cherish.

My mother would make them when I was a kid. She would fill them with dried apples, butter w/cinnamon and sugar, strawberries, blackberries, etc. One of my favorites was peanut butter with grape jelly.

Apple pie "Turnovers" That's what my mom call them. I'm 60 and still crave them. Great job!!!

Peach here! Love the fried type, but the convenience of baked is so much easier when those hungry grandkids are grabbing on your apron strings! ❤️

When I was growing up in eastern NC, many ladies made these, but we called them Apple Jacks. They also made Peach Jacks and Sweet Potato Jacks. In more recent years when the older aunts brought Apple Jacks to a family reunion, they disappeared almost instantly......a rare treat for most these days.

Growed up with these, mom made these and fried them in lard. They were golden brown and flaky. Nothing better than fried apple butter pies. Thanks for the memory.

My mom was born and raised in the mountains of NC. She still makes the pies today. She will only use dried apples because she said it doesn’t taste as good any other way. And the dried apples have to be dried in the sun not using a dehydrator because it won’t be the same according to her.

I don't remember Granny ever making fried pies, but after she died, her children started having a week long reunion near the Appalachian town of Bainbridge Ohio in Pike county (Pike lake state park), but they didn't like the children of theirs coming. But sometimes I would sneak down there anyway. One time they were making dried apple fried pies and had a lot left over, they were great! Problem is, I'm diabetic, and one is enough, even though I could eat 10 of them if I wasn't. So granny probably did make them, she had a couple apple trees, and made stack cakes, so fried pie ingredients were right there. She made leather britches and other dried goods.

The dough is how my mom made her pies of all flavors, loved watching this tutorial.

When I was a little girl I remember going with my grandparents to an old bakery in south Austin to buy a brown paper bag of fresh fried pies. They had double screen doors and you could smell the delicious pies as soon as you opened the car door. They were so delicious and it was such a great memory of my childhood. My favorite is a tie between apple and lemon.

This is awesome...and love the stories❤️❤️❤️

Fried apple pies sure brings back good memories I used to watch my mama make them I couldn’t wait till she got them done so I could eat one while it was hot .great video God bless

I have the best childhood memories of eating fried apple hand pies! I'm from Anderson county, SC and my grandmother would take me after church every Sunday to my great grandmother and great aunt's house, they lived together. They would both be busy in the kitchen cooking so much food. The sweets would always be on the end of the counter already made and as I was " just a baby and let her have whatever she wants to eat she's a growing girl" lol my great grandmother would sneak me as many pies as I wanted and didn't fuss over it. I would sneak in to get another one and she would just smile at me. 🤗

My mother in law dried her apples on the well house roof and she made peaches and apples my favorite was peaches , God rest her soul it's been several years since I had her pies thank you for the memory.. I sure did love that old woman. God speed

I grew up eating fried pies. Mother mostly made them with dried peaches as they were dads favorite. She also made apple and my favorite which were made with applesauce. With left over dough from fried pies or regular pies mother would make chocolate rolls for us kids. Good memories!

This sure took me down memory lane. Growing up my mom and aunts would make fried pies using dried peaches. I've even made mine with dried apricots when I didn't have dried peaches on hand. Whether it is apple, peaches or whatever kind of filling...this is good eating and great memories. Thank you for sharing.

Found your channel today . It is wonderful. Remind me of growing up on a small farm .We grew almost all our food and mother was a wonderful cook .

Love them with any filling...My Mom and I always sprinkled them with powdered sugar. I'm always telling my stories ,too. I'll tell you one about fried pies ,and how pleasing someone with these can bring good rewards. We rented the downstairs in a house, the landlord was redoing the upstairs...and he had apple trees on his property. I happened to make some fried pies one day and my older kids heard about it ,and they came to get some. The landlord came by and smelled them and ask one of the kids "What smells so good ,fried pies? They said, "Yes have one." Long story short he started bringing apples if I would make him some. He lowered our rent and moved us upstairs which had an extra room. Gave us free rent every Christmas, and our relationship with him and his wife is still a good one to this day. Love from Central Ky. I've been watch Miss Lori and Mr.Brown for awhile,love them,too.

The more I watch your channel, the more I come to realize that my family may have come from Appalachia.

I love apple my hubby loves peach pies. I can’t get close to the way his granny’s pies tasted, I keep trying though 😄

I made these pies for the first time yesterday. They're the best I've ever had. Delicious! Thanks for sharing.

This has become my favorite KZfaq channel. I'm making those pies over the weekend.

I just gotta say your speech is just like my kinfolk from central Missouri. You are the first person outside of my family that says Ain’t for aunt. Love listening to you talk.... and cook of course!

My mom used fry apple pies made out dried apples, they were so good. This show brings back memories.

I’m from West Virginia and i always loved fried pies..God bless

Hello Tipper, I have never been a big dessert person, however, after watching you make homemade fried pies, I need to try this! Please take pity on me as I have never eaten a fried pie in my life! Time to change that. As always, thank you for taking the time and effort to educate and share your Appalachia culture with us!

Great info, my Grandma's fried apple pies are some of my first memories.

My mother used to make dried apple fried pies when I was a kid. She'd spend all summer drying apples in our oven then put them up for use in the winter. They were great when it was cold outside BUT those 100+ degree summers with that oven going and NO air conditioning were awful.

Thank you so much ! My mom always made fried pies and granny made gingerbread and my sister made banana pudding. They all took so much pride in there house and kitchen. Thanks for taking me back memories and recipes are the most wonderful thing they all gave to anyone who set at there table

I love mincemeat filling in fried pies. Thank you for the great videos.

I miss having homemade fried pies I don’t have family to enjoy them anymore but I will make some for myself I love apple and peach - you frying and baking them made me reminisce and your cooking style is very comforting.

Ms. Tipper, thank you for sharing and for bringing some very fond memories! Sliced and sugared strawberries make the best hand pies to me, but apple butter or pear butter, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar are close behind! Mama might have been a gol-darned Yankee, but she learned how to cook good once she made it to North Carolina.

I've used chocolate its a favorite with kids. My mama baked hers sometimes like your granny. I enjoy learning Appalachian cooking from you, live the anecdotes too!

That was great, Tipper, these pies looked as good as I know they are and I know how good they are because I've eaten them! I can't help noticing how at ease your when cooking, I can tell you love to cook and you love to make goodies to feed your family!

Thank you for these recipes! I think during these difficult times many of us are turning to simple, down-home cooking/baking and your fried/baked pies ring all the right bells! Yummy!

Wow! My mother would make these on the rare occasion she could get dried apples. They were delicious! The first time she made them we were watching Peter Pan on TV so we called them Peter Pan pies. 😄 Thank you for reviving those memories. ❤️

I watch Whiporwill Holler too. Both your voices are just comforting to listen to at night as I am relaxing and I love learning the old ways!! Thank you!

I miss apple preserves, grandma made them every year out of sweet apples. So good

Oh lord! The memories watching this brings back! My sweet grandmaw made these all the time and she would make my daddy, her son in law, his own special batch! We got 2 each. Never no more. Hed get 10. And 10 to take home!

I’m going to make these for sure! Thank you for sharing! I’ll use apples and raisins in the fall/winter and blueberries in the summer.

Your baking skills make this look so easy and very delicious, so now I have to try making some, but will ue peach filling, which is my favorite. The fried pies look better, but the baked ones like your Granny used to make are obviously better for us! Love your big, roomy kitchen.

I'm happy I found your channel! I remember grandmother's fried pies made especially for me. They were delicious.

My Mamaw made those and called them Puppy Ears. Hers were mostly either apple or peach and were always fried. I make mine baked. Like you said though, they're good both ways. I love Whippoorwill Holler!

Grandma always made hers from dried apples she would dry from her trees. She used to dry hers on a sheet of tin laid cross ways on Grandpa's wheel barrow. She would dry a dish pan full at a time. She would spread newspaper on the tin and then pour the apples out on it. In the evening, she would roll them under the shelter then roll them out in the sun next morning. I love cherry fried pies and some of the best I ever ate were made from sweet potatoes.

We use precooked hamburger meat drained off grease .added shredded chz blend. Cut peppers onions and tomatoes .I've even used pico digo.we put in the filling butter both sides of the biscuits fold over and I take a fork to mash together w a fork. Like you. All my grandbabies love there peepaw to make this.

Thank you for sharing!

My Aunt and Uncle fry pies for fund raisers and I am sure sold a thousand with help the last fundraiser. They helped build a brand new church!!! Love fried pies. She taught me how. We done a whole five pound bag a flour! Whew!!

I really like how you take your time to teach! Thank you

I love all of them

Fantastic! My Grandmother made apricot fried pies that were very special to us. My grandparents grew peach orchards and apricots were there too. Thank you!

I am so glad I found your site!

Thank you for your directions

Wow, Beautiful, Flavorful, Homemade Fried Pies!!! That sure does bring back some good memories of my grandmother making fried apple🍏 🍎 pies. She had an electric stove with a plug in griddle and a large drawer below the oven door. Outside the kitchen door there was a huge Weeping Willow Tree, with a swing. I remember once when I was at her house, a big thunder storm came up. We were in the living room and could see the kitchen stove. All of a sudden we heard a loud crack of thunder. I looked toward the kitchen door just in time to see a small ball of fire roll off the electric stove. When it hit the floor it disappeared. My Grandmother said, " That lightning must of hit the willow tree and run down the electric line to the metal cook stove." She was scared, I was too young to be scared. I have never seen anything like that ball of fire again. I think I was four, I had never been to school yet. I never forgot it. That was the mid 1960's.

I was luckily enough to have grown up near Ellerbe NC back in the 60s over near the PD River. Me and my sisters grew up being taught by Mom & Dad how to hunt, trap, fish, butcher a hog, cut & stack wood for the winter, make a garden, can & dry anything you could eat. In the summer I worked at my Aunts and Uncles tobacco farms. We'd dry apples in the fall , then come the snowy weather Mom would make the exact same two types of pies you showed how to make. I still have the most wonderful memories of playing in the snow with my friends and sisters and then coming into the the house and smelling those wonderful apple pies that mom was cooking on the stove. Thank you so much for sharing.

My great-grandmother made these and the ones I liked best had damson plum preserves as the filling. Dates and chopped walnuts was another favorite. A savory variety was made with sausage, diced onions, and diced cooked potatoes. Lots of sage, thyme, and pepper. Thanks for bringing back a flood of very happy memories with your programs.