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OH my goodness!!! When you mentioned "fried taters", my heart just melted. Every morning before I left for school, my Grandfather (Pap) would ask me what I wanted for supper. My reply was ALWAYS - "Fried Taters and Onions". His were the BEST ever!! Like you, I cannot recreate the amazing taste of Pap's fried taters. I remember sitting on a stool in the kitchen and watching his every move while making them, and I still cannot duplicate the taste. I feel that it was his LOVE that went into his cooking that made it so very special. Thank you for the Oatmeal Roll recipe - easy and delicious!

I love your stories. My grandma Williams/West was the best person, someone who was loved by all. My children remember her well and for her chicken., She was the chicken queen. She was born 1895 and passed in 1989. The other day my youngest son text me and wanted to know how to make her chicken as he had been thinking about how good it was. Everyone remembers her for different reasons. She was just one of those people that God sends down every now and then to show us how to be. I miss her terribly.

I love your videos, I grew up in Tennessee and every morning I would wake up to bacon sausage eggs toast apple butter fresh jams and jellies hot coffee oatmeal sometimes ham but it was always a big breakfast, my grandpa was a Church going man he never missed a day of Church he could sit and tell you everything in the Bible. My grandma and grandpa made everything she always made her own dresses. But there was nothing like growing up down south. I miss it all, now and them, my momma is still here but I had 6 aunts and uncles now there are only two but I miss all of it. But watching you just takes me back to the south and all the things I miss now I still make the biscuits and cornbread soup beans and all that but watching you is just awesome thank you four sharing.

You are so down home and just cuter than a bug’s ear. It damn near makes me cry. I thank you so much for sharing your life with us!

Carol is 82 and still in Portland TX 😊 what a small world! I’m going to make your rolls to try! Thanks for sharing! Blessings from NE TX

Been watching many of your videos and you have such a knack for making us feel part of your family. I love all your stories and the history behind them! Have a great day!😊

My grandma was born in 1899. She was my oldest grand parent. I didn’t get to know her very well. We were always on the road. But hearing you speak sounds exactly like my aunts and cousins.

It is interesting, I grew up on Long Island NY, where I have returned - for now - but my mother, born in '39, grew up on the Island when it was a lot more rural. Her stories of her parents and growing up are so similar to the stories I hear here. To me that is so weird because I have never considered this Island "rural" of course there are parts. I was always wanting to live in the city, everything was city, city, city. I did that. Now all I want is a piece of Appalachia! That you for these stories, it makes me think of my granny that I never met - one of 22 by the by - and you have to share your "granny's" green bean secret! That is if it is not a family secret. Thanks again.

Enjoy your videos! Bring back memories of my family in SW VA mountains. Grandma always made the best cornbread, yeast rolls, and soup beans. When I was little she cooked on an iron wood stove. She had seven kids so there was two tables full of cousins. When Grandma got too old we had Thanksgiving at Aunt Ruby's. After eating the guys played football and the ladies drank coffee and talked in the kitchen. Dad's family lived up the road - Grandaddy always got up early, made homemade bisquits and gravy, homemade sausage, fried eggs. Sure do miss all those folks and the fun we had! Thanks

Way neater than you are?!! Heck, when I cook I usually have flour dusted all over the counter and the floor (and me), drippy measuring cups, egg shells, and spoons laying about, and batter gumming up the cord to the mixer! My kitchen looks like a scene from I Love Lucy! You are incredibly tidy.

My Granddaddy made the best fried taters also. He was very meticulous in cutting them up and patient in cooking them. I loved watching him cook as it was a novelty because Granny was a fabulous cook. I enjoyed seeing his method and he would hum a tune as he worked.

I love the tradition of taking a long walk with anyone who wanted to come along, after a big meal. If the weather was good enough, it was nice to walk and smell the fragrances from peoples' fireplaces in the air.

The dishes you show how to cook are so interesting! Please show more!!! I stumbled into your channel and absolutely love it. Being in North Alabama can relate to so many of your stories....thanks for the memories....Mike

Christopher Kimball from Cooks Illustrated has talked about how it’s been the downfall of modern cooking that we are expected to cook such a variety, that we never get really good at one thing and become known for it. I tend to think he’s right.

This was so great! As Thanksgiving rolls around for 2021, this brought back so many memories! The guys in my family always did a deer hunt in the early morning and a squirrel hunt in the aftrrnoon. My family is big on "tradition" so we have pretty much the same Thanksgiving dinner every year, with all the gals bringing their certain special item. I'm bad to take a photo of the table once the food is on, but it looks the same every year except for the tablecloth! 🤣

I truly love your videos. My mind goes back to when I was a young girl and being with my grandma and grandpa in West Virginia. I’m 70 years old now, my mommy is 91. My daddy pasted away back in 1984 and I miss him so much. He was areal kids dad. He liked being with us and having us around him and helping him in the gardens ( we always had 2 gardens). We always had hot breakfasts whether it was hot cereal or bacon,eggs and gravy or sausage eggs and gravy and usually oatmeal too. God bless you kiddo and your channel. Please keep bringing us your stories and your recipes and helping us by bringing back so many memories.

My grandmother made the best homemade noodles, yeast rolls and apple dumplings! we had them ever holiday. My other grandma was the queen of cabbage rolls and pies. I miss them both very much. We always had lots of canned peaches and poached pears too. My dad's favorite pie was mince meat.

I can’t wait to try your rolls. They sound so good. Watching you helps me remember my parents and grandparents. Thank you for the memories.

My tip for good fried taters, when you get your taters in the skillet, salt n pepper then..dot some butter on top. Butter makes the taters fry faster.🌻

That is so funny! I had no idea, that was your blog, Blind Pig and a Acorn, I have enjoyed it for years! And here you are! Xoxoxo

I just love watching your shows I'm sixty five years old an I'm never to old to learn new recipes I wish I lived in them mountains in an old cabin I do however keep my flour an corn meal in those tins that's five gallon my granny taught me how to survive .I have been the one that has always been the cook for big family gatherings but I watch your show an sit in my rocker an close my eyes an dream of them old days .I miss them . I quilt ,make rugs ,I can build anything I want I love making wind chimes I'm just an old soul thank you for your shows .I love them keep up the old ways .

My Gran pa used to butcher a couple of Ducks for thanksgiving, never Turkey. Gran ma would roast the Ducks in an old kerosene stove. They would come out golden brown and so crispy. They are both gone now. Sure do miss those thanksgiving with them,

Hunting on Thanksgiving was a tradition with my grandfather and brothers that was a long time ago

My grandmother used to make pancakes with leftover oatmeal, delicious!

60 years ago my Dad, brothers, and uncles always went squirrel and/or rabbit hunting while we all got Thanksgiving dinner ready!! Great memories. .

My daddy & brother ALWAYS went hunting’ Thanksgiving day. Mama, me & my 2 sisters, always went to her family’s for our meal & took the boys plates for supper. Precious memories. My 2 grandsons now go huntin’. We’re making memories with them! Thanks for sharing your memories. I love my visits with you.

Those rolls remind me of my late mother-in-law who made the best light rolls. You telling about your family cooking on a wood stove also brought back memories of staying at my grandma Nelson's in Wisconsin. I slept upstairs in a room above the kitchen. As a teenager I'd hear her kindling a fire in the wood cook stove. Soon the aroma of boiled coffee would disturb my sleep but the smell of bacon frying was more than I could take and I'd come down to breakfast without even being called. Grandma was born in Norway and she made boiled coffee you could float horseshoes in. In my teens I didn't drink coffee but Norwegians all set around the table after breakfast, put a sugar lump between their teeth and sip coffee through it. Norwegian mothers know when to wean their babies. When coffee starts coming out of their nipples. Thanks Tipper

I love watching your channel. The famous chefs in NY should pull up a chair and watch you work. You are a master of your kitchen. Food made with love and years of experience. Joy for your day!

I really love that you scrape your bowls properly. I love your videos. Blessings from UK. X

Wow! You are soo fortunate to be able to have the WEALTH OF FAMILY KNOWLEDGE and you choose to share with your viewers. Thank you for sharing!

I really enjoy your videos, I have been fascinated by Appalachian culture for years and learn a lot every time I watch one of your videos. I am a First Nations woman living in the Central Australian desert, so our lives are very different yet similar. Like you family is everything, and keeping culture alive is important to both of us.

Love to hear you talk about your grandparents, it reminds me of my maw maw and paw paw ... thanks for the chocolate gravy recipe the wife and I have never had heard of it before here in Lee county , Alabama .. God bless.

When I was younger we would go to my grandparents in Kansas, all the men and boy's old enough would go quail hunting on Thanksgiving day, thanks for bringing back many happy memories

Hunting was a family tradition at our home here. Women in the kitchen men went hunting. I loved thanksgiving dinner.

Thank you so much for sharing your family Thanksgiving memories. It made me think of my own childhood.

My great Aunt, from Whitaker ridge VA, made the best yeast rolls I ever had. We only got em on thanksgiving and Christmas though...

I love your channel! I was born in Roanoke,Virginia and have many relatives who still live in a rural area called Ironto. I have vivid memories of visiting my great aunt there and she still had an outhouse, That was the late 50’s . My husband was born in Myrtle Beach,SC where I still live. He used to say an injury was “ sore as a risen “. I laughed when you talked about certain words. Many of them I say .

I love your stories! Grandmas are the greatest story tellers. I grew up in Puerto Rico,and I was raised by my paternal grandma,she told me about the ways of cooking and how the food was kept back then,since they had no freezers. The way they cure the meats,How grandpa would get the hogs and goats and did all the prep. She told me how they wrote folk songs about true events good or bad that happened at the time. I found your channel looking for cushaw recipes since I grew some this summer,I end it up with two bc I had turkeys flying inside my yard and something else that I could not guess what,and some got ruined. I' ve never had cushaw before,it is real good! so I will save some for Thanksgiving pie. Thanks!

Great recipe. Love the story, as well. Carol did us all a huge favor when her recipe was posted and you picked it up!! Greetings from Fort Worth, TX! ♥️♥️♥️

Your stories are such that I wish I had known the folks you remember and mention throughout your videos. I am intensely interested in your oatmeal rolls because I've been a baker in four different jobs I've had throughout my working life and it's very interesting and very enjoyable to work in preparing food. My mother taught all of us kids how to cook by having us help her with small chores as we could handle when we were growing up. I was raised in the country and really appreciate your stories and recipes and almost feel related because I really identify with how you grew up and live in the country and still cherish the old ways of life. It really does my heart and mind and soul food to have my own family's memories reminded of and relived as I listen to your stories of your life and upbringing and I truly enjoy the fact that you share so much of your life as you experience it in Appalachia, I too appreciate the country way of life and enjoy the slower pace of country living. Thank you for sharing and just being there!

My grandma was known for her chicken and dumplings. The slick kind not the drop type. I so regret not paying attention when she made them but they usually were already done when we would get to her house.

To this day my husband and brothers go deer hunting Thanksgiving morning and I cook Thanksgiving dinner with my daughters. But I'm out there hunting that afternoon (everyone helps clean up) and any other day I can during season!! 😁❤

Hello again. My 3 daughters always make the menu. It's an ongoing group text that is added to everytime they thought of something else that they could make It's a great day! We all have a favorite dish we make each year. My children ask me to tell them the recipe for a certain dish that they love. I laugh and say come let's make and you'll see.

You have all the style of a city with all the warmth of the country. What an amazing combination!!

I've made these rolls twice in one week! Some of the best I've ever made! Mine were soft and stayed that way till we finished them. Thanks for this recipe!

I truly love watching your tutorials. Mist of my family has passed on, watching you cook, reminds me of my mother. Thank you.

Thanksgiving,Mama beginning of baking.In addition to Turkey and fixins,pies were baked.Amy favorite was always the Apple.She made her crust with lard mixed in.It is a special memory.

It's 7:44 am here, and those rolls have got me hungry. I feel like I could go in the kitchen and cook and bake everything...lol. But, truly I will just make some breakfast. Thank you for the inspiration. ☺🍞

I made these rolls yesterday, and they are to live for! What a wonderful recipe. Thank you for finding it and reviving it!

Oh I love Appalachia I swear I was born in the wrong place, I grew up in Chicago, but I love being able to ho to North Carolina mountains or Anywhere in Appalachia., North Georgia also ,I love going to Foxfire, so much history and I have read almost all the volumes of the foxfire books... I can't get enough , I love hearing your memories !! Thank you for doing these videos!! Your apron is so pretty

The rolls and stories make for such a longing for all the old traditions to come back to America. I'm so grateful to be able to see you keeping to the customs of the old ways, and the old recipes. We all have are favorites for sure. Thanks for sharing Tipper. And your girl's are just Beautiful. You and Matt I'm sure are so very proud. You've done a beautiful job raising them right. 💖👍💯🥰Thanks for all your hard work 💯🌺

You are a treasure. Listening to you is so comforting.💚

I luv ALL ur videos that u share. I luv all older Appalachian recipes. Ur channel is one of my top favs. Tysm for sharing! 😊

Love your channels. I'm 74 years old and when I was growing up in the coal camps in West Virginia, the men hunted on Thanksgiving and the women cooked. So much of what you all do reminds me of my life. I can't sing, but my husband has a gospel group with is family.

My favorite interview is with your Mother Zinny ...the possum story was hilarious .

I live in Kentucky, your family sounds like my family.

I was waiting for you to actually show us the texture of the roll

Every Thanksgivong and Christmas my grandma used to make a Jello salad. Those were big in the 50's. I think she made it because the re ipe was easy for her as she got older and it was a good way to get veggies into kids. It was an orange Jello salad that had mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, shredded carrots and cut celery mixed in it. You replace most if the cold water with the mandarin orange juice and juice from marachino charries. Right before it hardens you put marachino cherry halves all over the top. Kids love it and being a big kid myself I still make it for the memories my brother and I get from eating it twice a year at holiday time.

Great video Tipper. Something therapeutic about watching you kneed that dough. 😊

I really enjoy your videos. I would like to see a recipe and video of you making your famous praline candy. Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family !

Seeing you make rolls reminded me of watching my mother makes biscuits when I was a kid. My Daddy loved her biscuits and he liked them to be really big so when they were first married she'd make them as big as his fist. For some reason she started making them more regular size after the kids came along so I never did see her fist-sized biscuits.

My Daddy woke us up every Thanksgiving morning at about 4:00 or 5:00 am singing “Rise and shine and give God your glory glory”. We lived in the city but on Thanksgiving we went to one of my aunts houses that lived in the country. My Dad, uncles and cousins old enough would go rabbit hunting. We played with our cousins on the farm and the women would cook a big feast. Some of my best memories from my childhood. I now live about 20 minutes from my aunt in the country.

Hey it looks great and my family down here in east Tennessee had some of your same traditions as you folks have had . I Hunted on Thanksgiving with my father and than with friends and neighbors Till the old home place was ready for that Mountain Home God has Prepared for My Parents ! Glory hallelujah !

Love this and will try those rolls❤️😊

I can't wait to try my hand at making those rolls because your directions are easy to follow! My dad said mom didn't know how to boil water when he married her but she was a pretty good cook by the time I came along ten years later. Like you my mom always enjoyed studying the recipes from Southern Living or the ones on the back of the Campbell's soup cans. ha! I wouldn't know how to cook without the Campbell soup cans. I enjoyed your family stories. Did your mom ever say, "Stop slopping and gomming?" when she meant we were making a mess. It was one of her mom's sayings. I am glad I found your youtube channel because I enjoy learning how to cook.

I remember my Dad's side of the family would come over to our house & head up the hills to deer hunt while the women folk would cook the huge meal of turkey with all the fixens .. we lived in the heart of the valley where the creeks joined each other from different hills on both sides .. playing in the creeks in the summer was the best ! we'd make spots deeper by taken the rocks and building wall dams with a water fall to fill it .. Us youngons would cool off in the deep cool stream pools we created ... never occurred how wonderful our childhood was ! Now I'm sixty two ... what a great life I had growing up !

I'm known at work for my banana pudding. And it has a good story. 20 years ago, my MIL died and my FIL invited some friends over for dinner and dessert. To be provided by me. I was in a Brookshires grocery store in the baking isle. I begged a little old lady to help me. She gave me her "secret recipe" for banana pudding. Good lord, that recipe has been such the hit. Everyone at work loves it. I've probably shared it 20 times. No longer a secret. Thank you for such a fantastic family recipe.

Those look delicious. My son recently bought me some plain flour instead of self rising. I hate to waste anything and have been wondering what to do with it. Thanks for your recipe and thanks very much for showing me how!

I just found your channel. I just love watching and learning from you and your family. My dad's side of the family lives in Franklin County, Blueridge mtns, Bryson City is named after our family. God bless you and your beautiful family.

I make my maw maws yeast rolls. It’s similar to this recipe except for the oatmeal. Sometimes I with put a cup of wheat germ in place if a cup of flour. I will be trying these. I made your fried carb and oven fried diced potatoes. Hubby loved them thank you ❤

Wonderful recipes and stories. Thank you!

I recently found your channel, and love it! I was so surprised when you said the recipe was from a woman in Portland, Texas. I live 10 miles from Portland, Texas. I can't wait to try these. Thank you so much for sharing your family and recipes.

I so appreciate your stories and recipes. I’ve tried several and they’ve been great. It has been a pleasure to learn about Appalachia which I hope to visit someday.

Love this lady

This was great story and rolls… loved it as usual

Thanks for sharing the oatmeal rolls!!

Thank you for sharing. I love your family. The way ya'll talk and cook remind me so much of my momma, who passed away last year. We used to cook together ❤️

I knew I could trust you! I made these rolls for Christmas dinner and they turned out fantastic! Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your sweet family.

Looks like I could make them. Thanks for sharing.

I've been making your rolls for awhile...my bunch loves them.

when i was younger and mom still made thanksgiving, me and dad would always leave and either go hunting or riding around lookin for black walnuts or lotus pods and stuff for mom to make dry arrangements, and you really dont know how good something smells until you are gone or outside and walk into the house and smell it, thats what i remember so vividly, its like a wall of sage and turkey and dressin and all the pies and cakes smells would hit me in the face when i walked through the door and it was heaven and man you talkin about gettin hungry then, whewwww. i hope mom looks down and approves of the thanksgiving meal i prepare now.

Thank you for the recipe! most definitely will be making these!

I love hearing about your family traditions. Thank you Tipper! 😊🇨🇦

Thank you for sharing, we have a lot of the same memories and enjoy hearing you talk about them. Make most of my bread, hope to give these a try.

I’m happy I found you. Very enjoyable! 💖

I love hearing you talk about your Granny & Things she fixed for Past Thanksgivings! My Mother always made Yeast Roll’s, I have tried to make them bur never have any Luck! My Favorite Thing at Thanksgiving is Chicken & Dressing with lots of Sage, whole Cranberry Sauce, Pumpkin Pie & Pumpkin Roll! Thanks for Sharing this Video Ms. Tipper!

Have never made this type of roll. Looks good. The thanksgiving stories are fun to hear thanks enjoyed

Betcha' those rolls smell SOOOOOO good!!!!

Great video ... can relate so so much of all you shared also down through the years of our Thanksgiving days .... 🥣🍴🦃

My mother was oldest of 12children. My Big Mama, her mother, made biscuits and cornbread everyday. We had a wood stove until I was about 8 yes old. Food was so good cooked on that stove. My mother was a fine cook.

I love your videos! Getting to hear your beautiful accent and learn recipes and learn about Appalachia is lovely.

I appreciate that you show making the rolls, kneading the dough by hand! So many videos show using the expensive big mixer with a dough hook, which is fine unless you don't have one ;) I love seeing how people work dough, each person has a rhythm! Thank you for this recipe Tipper

My granny made the best homemade yeast rolls and potato rolls! Nothing better than a hot roll fresh out of the oven and butter!❤️

I wanted to see the finished roll. My mouth was watering.😋

I’m so glad I found you, your stories and food takes me back to when I was a kid. I’m 66 now and miss those days. Thank you!

Sounded like my family me my dad my grand pa my uncle my cousin we go rabbit hunting come back to my grandma and grandpa house toa big feast pies everywhere turkey i miss those times wish they all were still around

It is so wonderful to see the importance of family instilled in each of your family members. Enjoying your videos so much. I have the same bowls you use. My Mom had a pig cutting board like the one I see in your kitchen. Sweet memories!

New follower enjoying so much

I have that same hand mixer purchased in the late 60'S!!!