ty for sharing this,now i have a picture for the stories my pap told me of him taking the corn to the mill to have it ground for corn meal! Bless these men for keeping this tradition alive!
These two men are true PATRIOTS, saving this long lost art of miling locally!!! This was the corner stone of every community, Thank you Mrs. Tipper, we all need to see this! Grow local buy local and live local
@@randalllaue4042 They are patriots for continuing to uphold their culture... there's no need for your unpatriotic negativity here. Not to mention that corn was introduced to Europeans by Indigenous Americans, so to use it ties them back to the original patriots. And the reason almost every culture has this process is because corn consumption - particularly ground corn - was introduced to them by Indigeous Mexicans.
Just an observation to share... engineers today tend to build machines to run smooth. No shaking or rattling because all that extra motion is lost energy producing less efficient work. But that mill is just the opposite. All that rocking and rolling produced MORE work... all the way from keeping the hopper flowing with corn kernels to sifting off the chaff from the flour and even moving the chaff along to the collection bucket. And I just love that "fine tuner" on the sifting chute... a length of chain and a simple hook. Thank you so much for sharing this operation with us!
Wow! Now this is my cup a tea here! I love the OLD WAYS! Man would I love to be able to sit down and talk to, no LISTEN to these two old timers talk about days gone by. You wouldn’t think the meal would stay on that flat scoop like it does. 👍🏻👍🏻 Really enjoyed watching this!
My great uncle, Rev. Robert Burgess, worked at a grinding mill near Elijay, GA in the 1960s. Us kids loved going to watch him grind corn. Great memory!
Thank you so much Tipper. Fun & educational. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE. So much to be thankful for. 🙏 Corri looks so cute helping out. Such a sweet girl.
My grandpa had a grain mill in his late 70s until his passing at 85. This was in 1981. He was very particular about the type of corn he used and would drive from our town in Randolph county NC to N. Wilkesboro to buy the right kind! He would grind wheat too if anyone brought some and asked. He never charged anyone to my knowledge.
Never saw this before! I’ve seen the end product but not how it’s made… thank you for sharing this video! In fact? Thank you again times a million for keeping our Appalachian heritage alive with your videos! Wether it’s song, food, words, gardens, names, or any thing related? It’s ALL important… you are loved for your efforts and for who you are dear heart♥️‼️☮️☘️🐞❣️🍁🍂Hope you have another blessed Thanksgiving♥️Love to you and yours!!! I’m grateful beyond!😘☺️♥️‼️☮️
This is why I love this family and the videos they do for us. Never could I experience the way of things are done to preserve the way of doing things back n the day that are still relative now. Thank you so much for all u do, this is priceless to me
I love this Video! Some of my fondest memories of Me and my Mother and Daddy going to get our Corn ground... We live in North Georgia, we would mostly go to Blueridge,GA from Ellijay, GA to get most of the Corn ground. I would love to see y'all make some more videos of different Mills if you can... Always enjoy your Videos 😊
I use to love Winn Dixie Joy cornmeal & where I moved we could not get it. So once a year I would order straight from the mill But the shipping went up so high I stopped. Glad people still know how to do this. Educational for sure.
I remember my grandma taking us to the corn meal makers and we got to watch the making of the cornmeal then grandma would buy a bag. I loved going there.
in my beginning, kids shelled by hand,,then hand cranked(HC)corn sheller, Grandma had a HC grinder adjustable for meal/flour. i 'member sifting to get the flour out and regrind the pieces. Thanks for resparking that memory.👍🏼 a taste of medicinal corn to celebrate history.
Went with my grandpa in the 60’s to Waterloo, SC. They would weigh his corn and tell him how much it would make and offer him cornmeal for his corn and their take. It was funny how they dicker back and forth. He always was proud about how he won out this year.🤣 he did the same with his wheat.
Thanks for Appalachia video that's was some good corn flour I'm that truly I'm serious wight a good pound of 10$ for a grab bag I believe so show's that anything can happen for a reason I'm proud for that delicious corn 🌽🥰 gives back to the local companies & Community I'm appreciate that's good prophets
Thank you. I was so desperate for some cornbread I used this recipe in a glass pie pan in the microwave and it worked! Took about 5-6 minutes but only lacked the hard crust from the high heat of a conventional oven. The more powerful the microwave the better. Please keep up the great content.
This was super cool. Glad I got to see the process. It reminds me of the simpler life my grandparents lived. They didnt have much, but they had a strong faith and family ties. It makes me miss those times.
Imagine being a little kid & seeing this in person! I'm like Corie, didn't know when I woke up this morning I'd see something like this. I could listen to Clay & Joe a lot, I bet they have plenty more to tell about. Never heard of "dent" corn. Thanks for this video, will try Clay's recipe. 🌽😊
Very interesting. Had fun watching. You aint southern if you cant make cornbread. I guess I inherited it from my mother. Everytime I make a batch I thank of flatt&scruggs singing that martha white song. Matter of a fact thats what I use Martha White and as lester&earl would say its got Hot Rize
Such a great experience! I think I was born in the wrong century. I am so drawn to the old ways. And, homesteading is a simple way to live. If I could do it all over again, I would align my life with that simplicity. ❣️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼❣️
I enjoy watching these types of shows that help give context to how grandparents lived. Even with this there are so many who will not understand or even grasp
I was lucky to have a grist mill in the family. It’s a Meadows stone mill which is turned by an Alice Chalmers tractor. Dad and Mom still grind corn with it.
Good evening Tipper . My grandfather took me to a Gristmill one time. When I was little , but he just dropped the corn off , and we came back later to pick up the corn meal . There is a Grist Mill on 441 going towards Cherokee. However a flood come through there and tore it a part . The wheel is sitting upright on the bank of the creek. We have often taken the family to Mingus Mills . I think they still run the mill to make cornmeal. Oodles of Trillium grows there in the springtime . Enjoyed this video very much . Thank you .
Mills were indeed the very heart of mountain communities. My husband was raised in a town called Pound in Virginia. In 1839 a pounding mill was built at the mouth of local river. As people moved into the area a community begin to grow close to the mill. Even though the mill was washed away in a flood the people continued to settle in the community. A school was built in 1928. The town proper wasn't incorporated until 1950. But even today, local people call the community "The Pound". Instead of saying, "I'm going to town" or "I'm going to Pound" they say, "I'm going to the Pound". There is also another town called Pounding Mill, in Virginia. It's a couple of counties east of the Pound.
When I was about 8 until 12, we vacationed every year in Gatlinburg. I brought home flat rocks and in October, I would have dried corn from my grandparents and I played “grist mill” grinding the corn between the rocks. Then I would mix it with water and serve it in emptied out milk weed pods to my dolls. This mill is amazing! I love the self-sufficiency of past generations that this represents. It is obvious that Chuck loves this mill. ❤️
Such a coincidence! I was shucking and shelling corn an hour ago with plans on milling some on the Kitchen Aid after supper. That machine there is a marvel. It looks like its raining meal into the bin.
Loved watching this! There is still an old mill in Elliston, VA, about 45 minutes from where we live. I think it's still in operation. I know every time my sister-in-law visits from Arizona, she'll go to the mill to get cornmeal to take home. She says there's nothing like it! We've been by Mabry Mill on Blue Ridge Parkway but never got to see the mill in action. It has a big water wheel & its beautiful there. I've also subscribed to the girls' channel & am excited about Corie & Austin's wedding! Corie's scripture reading is always such a blessing to me. I suffer from anxiety & severe depression, I guess from being disabled at a young age. But there is nothing like God's Word to help us thru whatever struggles we may have! You & Matt have raised 2 awesome & precious daughters! Blessings always, Tipper & family!
I can remember visiting my grandparents one time and my Grandfather taking me to show how he made flour from wheat or rye and breakfast oats. He had a machine that he turned by hand. He had bought the machine in about 1910 . In about 25 minutes to 30 minutes he made about 10 lbs of flour or 10 lbs of breakfast oats. There was two different settings on the machine. It was similar to the machine shown in the video but no electricity. The husks were fed to the pigs. Thank you for reminding me of that experience with my Grandfather.
I know an old guy here that has a mill. I make my own meal but I make mine from Silver Queen. I cut it from the cob while still fresh, then I dry it in my dehydrator and grind it in a commercial coffee grinder. Makes the best cornbread ya ever tasted!
I grew- up seeing this done when, we took vacation to the Smokies, the Old Grist Mill in Maggie Valley, NC. The last, I went there as adult and took my children, they were sadly no longer doing it. That’s my favorite place that, I always look forward to going because, the falling river falls makes for just a peaceful place. They still have a Grist Mill running in Metamora, IN, where they have a place that has old timy shops and, such. Those Grist mills put out some of the best cornmeal.
I can smell the feed stores next to the rails with the big Purina mural painted on the side in Gilroy and Oakdale. Peering over knee high pens with chicks and bright lights...
@@CelebratingAppalachia Seein' Corie look into that box was a trigger and I saw me. I'm pretty sure it was Gilroy and not Morgan Hill, a bigger version of it was a ways from Granny's in Oakdale, but this memory was from a drive with Pop down Watsonville Rd or maybe Hecker Pass Rd. To Old Monterey Highway. Entering the building was like entering a cathedral high large timber trusses large doors on both sides facing East and West the air inside was cool. The morning sun streaming in from the east door closest to the tracks and the woosh of an occasional car behind you as you walked in. The box was to the left and I looked into it in much the same way as Corie it was to my chest then prolly above my knees to me now...and that beam of sun streaming in the window felt the same too. The warm smell of the chicks, mixed with feed rising with from it with the chirps. I'd be there was there lookin' and listenin' 'til Pop finished his business...Chicken feed, rabbit pellets and a salt lick. We got most the hay from one of the neighbors down the road...they were all about horses. I think nearly most those fields are now housing developments or hobby vineyards for the Silicone Valley type-ohs. Seems to me that what you have there is a failure to renovate...and it suits me just fine keepin' the Country...Country. Just think all the Cities with their ills, pollution, crime, etc. were once just peaceful and easy places. I like the feel of that corn mill its not as big as the feed store but it feels friendly...warm and cozy. I checked Google Earth and nothing the way I imagine it. Seems that location might now be a CalTrain Station. Anyway... there was always complimentary popcorn and coffee for the ride home and I can see Pop scoopin' me a bag before we hit the road. That place there seems it would be a nice place for cup of coffee and I'd be all ears for stories about how things used to be and try shucking the ol' timers wisdom, and listen to that mill as it has character too...
There is a state park near me where they have a "pioneer days" annual event, and someone always brings a grist mill run by a hit-and-miss engine and belt drive. Very cool video--great to see Clay (haven't been to see him in a few years) and I can guess where he bought the corn. Thanks for posting.
I wish they had elaborated on the answer to your question about the type of corn they used. It is indeed dent corn, but there are numerous varieties of dent corn. It looks to me like Hickory King, which was a favorite of many folks when I was growing up. I worked one summer at a mill as a teenager and that was the variety the folks who owned the mill, which was in Cherokee, used. I often heard the adage, "white for folks, yellow for critters." Jim Casada
When I was a teen we had a small stone mill and it made the best corse ground corn/meal into bread- - - with goat milk from our goats / butter from our cow /and eggs from our chickens, ive tried to make corn bread that good every since but nothing these days tastes the same!
Enjoyed watching the corn kernels being made into cornmeal. I growed some trucker's favorite for making cornmeal this pass summer unfortunately I didn't get to make it, a storm come through knocked most of it down. To add to it we had several days of rain and it didn't dry out like it needed to for making cornmeal. So it wound up being chicken freed. God bless
This was fun to see. I grow Hickory King corn for meal and grind it. If you buy store bought meal and want it to be more like stone ground, just add some grits to the mix. Fresh ground wheat berries make the best nutty flavored breads. Yum!
Good video got to grind my meal here for long very interesting mine is just a small operation I like the corn you grind yourself nothing has been extracted from corn unlike store bought meal the corn germ has been extracted from store bought for storage purposes even if it says whole grain it’s not same as your wheat berries
Love. Love. LOVE. 🧡 My family names include MILLER and MILLHAM, and ancestors were ... yes, the equivalent of these fellas, but with actual ancient millstones in X-shaped WINDMILLS in Belgium and S.E. England. I've never seen this done and am just fascinated with this version. Celebrating ancient ways! This knowledge and tool will be something very useful in days to come.
Hi Tipper Awesome video , looks like Cory was enjoying helping out 👍 My Grandparents took there homegrown corn to the mill ! I think they called it field corn they grew 2 kinds one was for eating and the other for cooking with after it was ground 😁 Nothing like fresh ingredients in a pan of cornbread 😋 Thanks for sharing !
I've wondered what kind of corn is used for corn meal. When I bought a Vitamix which has a special dry container for grinding wheat berries for flour, they demonstrated making corn meal out of popcorn. You can do it but I didn't think that was the normal corn to use! This was interesting and it's great that these gentlemen have continued this small batch grinding for the community.
These guys were great. Well done on interviewing them! Very informative and real. Please keep this type of videos coming. 😍 Heck, to be honest all your videos are great, I just love seeing your stuff.
Bringing back memories, when I was young pap and I would carry our corn to mr. chambers. He was the only one that had a grist mill around us we would be set for awhile fun seeing this happening today. Thanks for the fun. Of course back then we used flour sacks. The girls used to make dresses out of the store bought ones.
Hello Clay Thank you for the recipe I will use it
What a marvelous contraption!
Such an interesting video. Thanks for sharing this.
God bless all here.
wow that is awesome. Must test really good.
Debbie-Texas. Great memories! Each year when I go back to Mississippi, go to the mill for our cornmeal. Its the best
Wow, what a piece of history! 👍🏻
Blast from the past. Good ole days. Love videos like this. Thanks
ty for sharing this,now i have a picture for the stories my pap told me of him taking the corn to the mill to have it ground for corn meal! Bless these men for keeping this tradition alive!
These two men are true PATRIOTS, saving this long lost art of miling locally!!! This was the corner stone of every community, Thank you Mrs. Tipper, we all need to see this! Grow local buy local and live local
So glad you enjoyed this one 😀
@@randalllaue4042 They are patriots for continuing to uphold their culture... there's no need for your unpatriotic negativity here. Not to mention that corn was introduced to Europeans by Indigenous Americans, so to use it ties them back to the original patriots. And the reason almost every culture has this process is because corn consumption - particularly ground corn - was introduced to them by Indigeous Mexicans.
@@elizabethrimmer9308 Thank You!!!!
@@elizabethrimmer9308 like the Indians...
We learned a lot from the indigenous people.
That is awesome! Enjoyed this ....glad they got the old mill working and producing cornmeal again....thanks tipper...God bless...🙏
WOW Tipper !! You Always have the Greatest Things on yous channel and I AM Loving this One !!!
God Bless You & Your's Akways !!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Just an observation to share... engineers today tend to build machines to run smooth. No shaking or rattling because all that extra motion is lost energy producing less efficient work. But that mill is just the opposite. All that rocking and rolling produced MORE work... all the way from keeping the hopper flowing with corn kernels to sifting off the chaff from the flour and even moving the chaff along to the collection bucket. And I just love that "fine tuner" on the sifting chute... a length of chain and a simple hook.
Thank you so much for sharing this operation with us!
Wow! Now this is my cup a tea here! I love the OLD WAYS! Man would I love to be able to sit down and talk to, no LISTEN to these two old timers talk about days gone by. You wouldn’t think the meal would stay on that flat scoop like it does. 👍🏻👍🏻 Really enjoyed watching this!
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
they still have a few old grist mills in Alabama.
My great uncle, Rev. Robert Burgess, worked at a grinding mill near Elijay, GA in the 1960s. Us kids loved going to watch him grind corn. Great memory!
I think anything made at home is better than store bought this really interesting thx for sharing
Love this! Thank you!!!
Thank you so much Tipper.
Fun & educational. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE. So much to be thankful for. 🙏 Corri looks so cute helping out. Such a sweet girl.
Very interesting , thank you.
Very informative. 👍👍
My grandpa had a grain mill in his late 70s until his passing at 85. This was in 1981. He was very particular about the type of corn he used and would drive from our town in Randolph county NC to N. Wilkesboro to buy the right kind! He would grind wheat too if anyone brought some and asked. He never charged anyone to my knowledge.
It's the best corn meal.
I had it South Carolina that my mother in law had gotten.
Love love love it! I sure wish we had someone doing this in my area.
Never saw this before! I’ve seen the end product but not how it’s made… thank you for sharing this video! In fact? Thank you again times a million for keeping our Appalachian heritage alive with your videos! Wether it’s song, food, words, gardens, names, or any thing related? It’s ALL important… you are loved for your efforts and for who you are dear heart♥️‼️☮️☘️🐞❣️🍁🍂Hope you have another blessed Thanksgiving♥️Love to you and yours!!! I’m grateful beyond!😘☺️♥️‼️☮️
This is why I love this family and the videos they do for us. Never could I experience the way of things are done to preserve the way of doing things back n the day that are still relative now. Thank you so much for all u do, this is priceless to me
I love this Video! Some of my fondest memories of Me and my Mother and Daddy going to get our Corn ground... We live in North Georgia, we would mostly go to Blueridge,GA from Ellijay, GA to get most of the Corn ground. I would love to see y'all make some more videos of different Mills if you can... Always enjoy your Videos 😊
I bet thats Hickory King corn. They make Hominy out of it too. Loved it, thank you and GOD bless
I use to love Winn Dixie Joy cornmeal & where I moved we could not get it. So once a year I would order straight from the mill But the shipping went up so high I stopped. Glad people still know how to do this. Educational for sure.
I'm unable to put into words the joy this brings me!! The old ways are almost always the best. 💗
Thank you. Would love to try it. Would enjoy visiting with them and hearing them talk. My kind of people.
Our pleasure!
What a great tour. I’m thinking of making a trip to Brasstown!
Great video. I learned a few things today! :)
Wow!
I see a road trip to Brasstown
Awesome video!
Thanks again Ms. Tipper.
I love your work.
❤
Thank you so much!
Thankyou Tipper and Corie For the trip to Joe and Clay,s corn meal making, I sure enjoyed it. God Bless.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
THANK YOU SO MUCH for the recipe!
I was just looking for a good cornbread recipe. 👍
I remember my grandma taking us to the corn meal makers and we got to watch the making of the cornmeal then grandma would buy a bag. I loved going there.
Sooooo interesting!!!
Nice to see and show people how it's made. Thanks Tipper.
Glad you enjoyed it Donnie!
Very interesting and educational. I'm so happy they have kept it functional ❤️
Really enjoy watching and listening to these guys!
in my beginning, kids shelled by hand,,then hand cranked(HC)corn sheller, Grandma had a HC grinder adjustable for meal/flour. i 'member sifting to get the flour out and regrind the pieces. Thanks for resparking that memory.👍🏼 a taste of medicinal corn to celebrate history.
Went with my grandpa in the 60’s to Waterloo, SC. They would weigh his corn and tell him how much it would make and offer him cornmeal for his corn and their take. It was funny how they dicker back and forth. He always was proud about how he won out this year.🤣 he did the same with his wheat.
Can’t wait to try this cornbread
Thanks for sharing the mills history. I'll be stopping when I'm in the area.
So much to be thankful for this year. Thank you ladies.
Thank you Tipper and Korie and thank you to the men preserving this bit of history.
Thanks for Appalachia video that's was some good corn flour I'm that truly I'm serious wight a good pound of 10$ for a grab bag I believe so show's that anything can happen for a reason I'm proud for that delicious corn 🌽🥰 gives back to the local companies & Community I'm appreciate that's good prophets
Thank you. I was so desperate for some cornbread I used this recipe in a glass pie pan in the microwave and it worked! Took about 5-6 minutes but only lacked the hard crust from the high heat of a conventional oven. The more powerful the microwave the better. Please keep up the great content.
So Neat 👍🏼
This was super cool. Glad I got to see the process. It reminds me of the simpler life my grandparents lived. They didnt have much, but they had a strong faith and family ties. It makes me miss those times.
nice job ... we still spend time doing everything by hand and soak the corn in lye for best meal dough..
Imagine being a little kid & seeing this in person! I'm like Corie, didn't know when I woke up this morning I'd see something like this. I could listen to Clay & Joe a lot, I bet they have plenty more to tell about. Never heard of "dent" corn. Thanks for this video, will try Clay's recipe. 🌽😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting. Had fun watching. You aint southern if you cant make cornbread. I guess I inherited it from my mother. Everytime I make a batch I thank of flatt&scruggs singing that martha white song. Matter of a fact thats what I use Martha White and as lester&earl would say its got Hot Rize
Such a great experience! I think I was born in the wrong century. I am so drawn to the old ways. And, homesteading is a simple way to live. If I could do it all over again, I would align my life with that simplicity. ❣️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼❣️
Me too Judy 😀
LOVE everything about corn.
This is so cool I wish all schools were close enough to make a trip there
I love this so much. ❤❤❤
Cool video with these two lovely men, and Corey looks so sweet helping out.
I enjoy watching these types of shows that help give context to how grandparents lived. Even with this there are so many who will not understand or even grasp
I was lucky to have a grist mill in the family. It’s a Meadows stone mill which is turned by an Alice Chalmers tractor. Dad and Mom still grind corn with it.
So interesting and cool to watch the machine and hear about the history
Good evening Tipper . My grandfather took me to a Gristmill one time. When I was little , but he just dropped the corn off , and we came back later to pick up the corn meal . There is a Grist Mill on 441 going towards Cherokee. However a flood come through there and tore it a part . The wheel is sitting upright on the bank of the creek. We have often taken the family to Mingus Mills . I think they still run the mill to make cornmeal. Oodles of Trillium grows there in the springtime .
Enjoyed this video very much .
Thank you .
Mills were indeed the very heart of mountain communities. My husband was raised in a town called Pound in Virginia. In 1839 a pounding mill was built at the mouth of local river. As people moved into the area a community begin to grow close to the mill. Even though the mill was washed away in a flood the people continued to settle in the community. A school was built in 1928. The town proper wasn't incorporated until 1950. But even today, local people call the community "The Pound". Instead of saying, "I'm going to town" or "I'm going to Pound" they say, "I'm going to the Pound". There is also another town called Pounding Mill, in Virginia. It's a couple of counties east of the Pound.
Well hells bells I’d love to order me some but don’t see a store online. If he doesn’t have one he sure should
Another good one! LOVE to you all. Blessings on your Thanksgiving Celebrations. Peace in Jesus. ❤
When I was about 8 until 12, we vacationed every year in Gatlinburg. I brought home flat rocks and in October, I would have dried corn from my grandparents and I played “grist mill” grinding the corn between the rocks. Then I would mix it with water and serve it in emptied out milk weed pods to my dolls. This mill is amazing! I love the self-sufficiency of past generations that this represents. It is obvious that Chuck loves this mill. ❤️
What great memories 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Yes, I loved Gatlinburg. I loved the mountains and the bears. I loved country ham and red eye gravy. Lots of good memories. ❤️
Such a coincidence! I was shucking and shelling corn an hour ago with plans on milling some on the Kitchen Aid after supper. That machine there is a marvel. It looks like its raining meal into the bin.
How neat is that!
Wow, I’ve never heard of millling corn using the Kitchen Aid mixer, what type if attachment do you use for that?…sounds neat…
@@brendaschenck859 / neither have I. I would love to know which attachment you would use. Thanks!!
Antilogism: which attachment do you use for your Kitchdnaud?
@@brendaschenck859 The Grain Mill attachment. I have an old Hobart GM-A but there are others. The modern one is model KGM but I've never used one.
Loved watching this! There is still an old mill in Elliston, VA, about 45 minutes from where we live. I think it's still in operation. I know every time my sister-in-law visits from Arizona, she'll go to the mill to get cornmeal to take home. She says there's nothing like it! We've been by Mabry Mill on Blue Ridge Parkway but never got to see the mill in action. It has a big water wheel & its beautiful there. I've also subscribed to the girls' channel & am excited about Corie & Austin's wedding! Corie's scripture reading is always such a blessing to me. I suffer from anxiety & severe depression, I guess from being disabled at a young age. But there is nothing like God's Word to help us thru whatever struggles we may have! You & Matt have raised 2 awesome & precious daughters! Blessings always, Tipper & family!
Thank you Debbie 😀
This was fascinating! Thanks so much Tipper!! I love learning about old ways of doing things….priceless!💕
Glad you enjoyed it!
This city gal sure is enjoying these presentations! I love your life!
I'm so glad you enjoy our videos 😀
I can remember visiting my grandparents one time and my Grandfather taking me to show how he made flour from wheat or rye and breakfast oats. He had a machine that he turned by hand. He had bought the machine in about 1910 . In about 25 minutes to 30 minutes he made about 10 lbs of flour or 10 lbs of breakfast oats. There was two different settings on the machine. It was similar to the machine shown in the video but no electricity. The husks were fed to the pigs. Thank you for reminding me of that experience with my Grandfather.
What a great memory Roger 😀
Priceless ❤️
Fascinating! I'd love to try some corn bread.
Truly amazing , the things we take for granted . Many thanks to these gentlemen , and to you young lady , for a wonderful video . Blessings .
Thank you kindly 😀
Love that old scale!
Never saw that before. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I know an old guy here that has a mill. I make my own meal but I make mine from Silver Queen. I cut it from the cob while still fresh, then I dry it in my dehydrator and grind it in a commercial coffee grinder. Makes the best cornbread ya ever tasted!
I need to try that!
I suddenly crave cornbread with butter! Great video. Think I'll watch it again!
I grew- up seeing this done when, we took vacation to the Smokies, the Old Grist Mill in Maggie Valley, NC. The last, I went there as adult and took my children, they were sadly no longer doing it. That’s my favorite place that, I always look forward to going because, the falling river falls makes for just a peaceful place. They still have a Grist Mill running in Metamora, IN, where they have a place that has old timy shops and, such. Those Grist mills put out some of the best cornmeal.
I think there is a grist mill still commercially running in Kentucky. I think the name is Weisenberger.
Tipper what a great video, i have eaten cornbread made out of homemade cornmeal its been long time ago it was really good as i remember it.
Thank you Joe! Hope you have a good week 😀
I can smell the feed stores next to the rails with the big Purina mural painted on the side in Gilroy and Oakdale.
Peering over knee high pens with chicks and bright lights...
Love the picture of your words Phillip 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia
Seein' Corie look into that box was a trigger and I saw me. I'm pretty sure it was Gilroy and not Morgan Hill, a bigger version of it was a ways from Granny's in Oakdale, but this memory was from a drive with Pop down Watsonville Rd or maybe Hecker Pass Rd. To Old Monterey Highway. Entering the building was like entering a cathedral high large timber trusses large doors on both sides facing East and West the air inside was cool. The morning sun streaming in from the east door closest to the tracks and the woosh of an occasional car behind you as you walked in.
The box was to the left and I looked into it in much the same way as Corie it was to my chest then prolly above my knees to me now...and that beam of sun streaming in the window felt the same too.
The warm smell of the chicks, mixed with feed rising with from it with the chirps. I'd be there was there lookin' and listenin' 'til Pop finished his business...Chicken feed, rabbit pellets and a salt lick. We got most the hay from one of the neighbors down the road...they were all about horses. I think nearly most those fields are now housing developments or hobby vineyards for the Silicone Valley type-ohs.
Seems to me that what you have there is a failure to renovate...and it suits me just fine keepin' the Country...Country. Just think all the Cities with their ills, pollution, crime, etc. were once just peaceful and easy places.
I like the feel of that corn mill its not as big as the feed store but it feels friendly...warm and cozy.
I checked Google Earth and nothing the way I imagine it. Seems that location might now be a CalTrain Station.
Anyway...
there was always complimentary popcorn and coffee for the ride home and I can see Pop scoopin' me a bag before we hit the road.
That place there seems it would be a nice place for cup of coffee and I'd be all ears for stories about how things used to be and try shucking the ol' timers wisdom, and listen to that mill as it has character too...
There is a state park near me where they have a "pioneer days" annual event, and someone always brings a grist mill run by a hit-and-miss engine and belt drive. Very cool video--great to see Clay (haven't been to see him in a few years) and I can guess where he bought the corn. Thanks for posting.
I wish they had elaborated on the answer to your question about the type of corn they used. It is indeed dent corn, but there are numerous varieties of dent corn. It looks to me like Hickory King, which was a favorite of many folks when I was growing up. I worked one summer at a mill as a teenager and that was the variety the folks who owned the mill, which was in Cherokee, used. I often heard the adage, "white for folks, yellow for critters."
Jim Casada
When I was a teen we had a small stone mill and it made the best corse ground corn/meal into bread- - - with goat milk from our goats / butter from our cow /and eggs from our chickens, ive tried to make corn bread that good every since but nothing these days tastes the same!
Enjoyed watching the corn kernels being made into cornmeal. I growed some trucker's favorite for making cornmeal this pass summer unfortunately I didn't get to make it, a storm come through knocked most of it down. To add to it we had several days of rain and it didn't dry out like it needed to for making cornmeal. So it wound up being chicken freed. God bless
The life of a gardener 😀 Hopefully next year it will work out!
We don't get to see things like this anymore... Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it Ron 😀
That is an interesting process. I love good cast iron skillet made cornbread.
I love that meal paddle!! Who would have thought?!? Great video!!
It worked so well 😀
This was fun to see. I grow Hickory King corn for meal and grind it. If you buy store bought meal and want it to be more like stone ground, just add some grits to the mix.
Fresh ground wheat berries make the best nutty flavored breads. Yum!
Good video got to grind my meal here for long very interesting mine is just a small operation I like the corn you grind yourself nothing has been extracted from corn unlike store bought meal the corn germ has been extracted from store bought for storage purposes even if it says whole grain it’s not same as your wheat berries
Wow! That’s quite a process! Thank you for sharing this!
You are so welcome! 😀
There is just nothing like country folks.
Love. Love. LOVE. 🧡 My family names include MILLER and MILLHAM, and ancestors were ... yes, the equivalent of these fellas, but with actual ancient millstones in X-shaped WINDMILLS in Belgium and S.E. England. I've never seen this done and am just fascinated with this version. Celebrating ancient ways! This knowledge and tool will be something very useful in days to come.
Hi Tipper
Awesome video , looks like Cory was enjoying helping out 👍
My Grandparents took there homegrown corn to the mill !
I think they called it field corn
they grew 2 kinds one was for eating and the other for cooking with after it was ground 😁
Nothing like fresh ingredients in a pan of cornbread 😋
Thanks for sharing !
I've wondered what kind of corn is used for corn meal. When I bought a Vitamix which has a special dry container for grinding wheat berries for flour, they demonstrated making corn meal out of popcorn. You can do it but I didn't think that was the normal corn to use! This was interesting and it's great that these gentlemen have continued this small batch grinding for the community.
Thank you for this video. I absolutely love seeing the Celebration of Appalachia through your channel.
I'm so glad 😀
These guys were great. Well done on interviewing them! Very informative and real. Please keep this type of videos coming. 😍 Heck, to be honest all your videos are great, I just love seeing your stuff.
So glad you enjoyed it-thank you!!
I would love to visit this mill !
It was fun!
Bringing back memories, when I was young pap and I would carry our corn to mr. chambers. He was the only one that had a grist mill around us we would be set for awhile fun seeing this happening today. Thanks for the fun. Of course back then we used flour sacks. The girls used to make dresses out of the store bought ones.
What great memories 😀