When my newlywed husband and I went to the grocery store for the first time, I asked him to find the potatoes, bless his heart he came back and told me that he could'nt find the harsh taters. I had to show him where the Irish potatoes were. We still to this day get a big kick out of this. When we hit a rough patch along the way. We say it's just a pan of Harsh taters. We've been married 51 years. Bless our hearts
Although I had cooked a good bit before I married, I hadn't bought groceries. I moved to another state and I remember looking at the variety of potatoes in the store and reading the labels trying to find the Arsh variety! I just picked out the ones that looked most similar to what was used at home. They tasted close enough to what I was used to, so I've continued to use them. Never have found those Arsh taters since I left Georgia. This looks and sounds so good!! I'll have to try it. Thanks for all you do.
Crushed walnut shells are great for stuffing pin cushions. They are abrasive and keep the pins sharp and the traces of oil make needles and pins glide through fabric.
You do more to educate America on Appalachia’s history than any other Channel I’ve ever seen! And ma’am I’ve seen many documentaries etc and read every book i could get my hands on and YOU explain our history better than anyone or anything I’ve seen! Great job! If you ever need a sponsor for your channel I believe we’d be glad to help out!
My Mom Mom was from Delaware. They were poor, lived on a farm, and she was the oldest of 13. She lived for summers when she would stay in town with her Granny who owned a cake shop! I miss my Mom Mom dearly! She had stories I loved hearing. She was the hardest working woman. She held a very good job with a major hospital in Central PA, she had a small orchard, a huge-HUGE garden,plots for strawberries, a patch of rhubarb and raspberries lined the edge of the woods and we had sassafras trees and black walnuts!! They were here favorite and she had many recipes using them that she got from her summers at the cake shop! We would gather up the fallen walnuts and lay them in our gravel/stone driveway and as we drove over them it removed the green outer layers, she pick the nuts up and put them in a 5 gallon bucket. Every time she filled it we would sit on the back porch with small hammers, nutcrackers, pickers-whatever and we’d all shell the nuts. I’m 50 and I very much regret not paying more attention to how she cooked and canned and froze. It was a simpler time but required honest hard but rewarding work. People now days can not be bothered with anything really! They want everything done for them, they want everything easy and they want it now! I miss summers filled with mornings of helping her, having a big fat tomato sandwich for lunch, a swim to cool off and a bit more help and a dinner of fresh hot bread, more thick cut tomatoes and cucumbers and corn on the cob! Mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm!! Love and miss you Mom Mom!
One of my favorite memories of my grandma and grandpa is their incredible story telling abilities...you have this ability. I just can’t get enough! Thank you for taking the time to continue.
Tipper I've started to think of you as my friend from Appalachia I guess because even though we lived in different parts of the United States our lives are somewhat parallel. To me, you are a dear friend. ❤️
I love this channel and it takes me back to my maw maw and grandmother in northern Alabama. There's a wholesome Christian spirit while watching these videos. Thank you. I need this in this troubled world.
My mama said “arsh” potatoes, and I was grown before I realized she was really saying Irish. I wouldn’t trade my childhood growing up poor and country in upstate South Carolina for all the world’s riches. It’s my heritage, who I am, and regardless of what some may think, skin color or race has never an issue, and still isn’t for the most part. But, you can find hatred and ignorance anywhere, not just in my beloved South.I’ve lived in many areas of this country I love and fear for the future of, and I was shocked at the racist talk and behavior I found in Michigan and other Northern states. That’s one thing I’ve learned in my 74 years of life - it’s not confined to one area as I was led to believe. And being poor, I grew up with black friends and neighbors. My mama, God rest her sweet soul, raised me to treat others as I’d like to be treated, and it has served me well. I fear for and pray for the greatest country in the world - - the United States of America - and being born here is a blessing. We’re all brothers and sisters in Christ and we need to unite, heedless of race or creed, and save our country from what’s happening right now! May God both Bless and Protect the USA. ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏
Working class neighborhoods are more united then rural or northern suburbs in Michigan. I am 61 and live 5 street north of Detroit. We are a mixed neighborhood and get along fine. Maybe we're just to busy to bother
@@lorashampine3522 That was the case in most of the industrialized north where most everyone had a good union job that wanted one. There were no lynchings, segregated lunch counters, and separate restrooms.
We southerners share a culture, belief in God and therefore the same values. Growing up I played with the black children down the road and their mama was so nice to me. I’d have moved in with them in a heartbeat. Their smaller house was so full of love for each other that’s all that mattered to me. I lived in a new subdivision on the outskirts of Memphis in 1959. On the other side of the road were cotton sharecroppers and their families. Nowadays that arrangement wouldn’t work there but we were children and just liked playing together. Oh how I wish the world was like that now.
That looks so good so I've saved it to try. My daddy was born & raised in Texas & always called then Arsh taters, so I grew up thinking they were called Irish taters. Shocking.... they don't sell Irish taters at the grocery store. hehehe. My mom's family is from Appalachia. My ex mother in law loved black walnuts & would gather tons of them. After helping her crack them, I can believe the shells would stand up to s turbine engine! Lol. I'm Choctaw, & had never heard, but loved the story of the Cherokee women using them to catch fish! Storytellers are cherished in native cultures as they pass the stories & traditions to younger generations. You are a wonderful storyteller!
My daddy was from West Virginia and we would always tell the story of how when he grew up and moved out of WV, he went to the store and was looking for Arsh potatoes and no one knew what he was talking about and he finally realized that they were called Irish Potatoes! I'm so thankful to have found this channel.
My family is from Wise County , Virginia. My dad was a coal miner. We always said “taters”. I do remember the stack cake you mentioned. It was dad’s favorite. Mom used to pick wild field lettuce, mix it with green onions and “kill” it with hot bacon grease. That along with cornbread and I’m in heaven 😊.
We call it wilted lettuce. We use leaf lettuce, green onions, bacon grease and vinegar. So good with cornbread ! It makes my mouth water to just think of it.
Mustard greens were done that way by my mother. Wilted in an iron skillet with hot bacon grease then vinegar (and hot pepper sauce if I remember correctly) served with cornbread (and sometimes with streak o'lean ).
I was raised in Wise County, between St. Paul and Coeburn, Va. All my family were coal miners, so I wanted no part of the mines, joined the military and left the hills, but have never forgotten the ways we lived and the foods we ate. I'm an old man now, but I still love the food, and I cook it myself now. The killed (wilted) lettuce really brought the old memories back. Thank you for that.
My mother born in the 30's, left the mountains of Eastern Ky. {Townsend Mt.,Lee Co.} with her Mom and Dad and went North to Newport.Ky. seeking work...she had a babysitter that always fixed arsh taters...I have heard just about every word you speak of...I have cracked many a black walnut for cakes,hickory nuts,too. My Dad's Mom was the only grandmother I knew,she was a wonderful cook many of her recipes were just learned and passed down from Mom to daughter...she cooked on a wood stove when first married ,milked a cow,churned butter,kept chickens,gardened and canned everything,stored spuds[that was the arsh tater,and turnips. I live now where my parents lived {went out in the world} and came back to Clark Co.
Made this is a 9×13 for my wife and kids. It was cleared out in about 3 days. A fun recipe to make, too. I really enjoyed the process. And you're absolutely right, it's good cooled a few hours, but phenomenal after 24.
Tip, I've eaten your Arsh Potato Cake and it is really good! In addition to being so good it's also an attractive cake to look at. Any time I come by your house I make a point of looking around to see what you have baked that I can nibble on. You really are a wonderful cook!
I always waited until the green walnut hulls turned black and boiled them in a kettle of water and melted parrafin wax on the top and dipped my traps in until they were dark brown to black and there was no visible shiny steel. As you then lifted the traps free, they were lightly coated with the melted parrafin wax and worked fantastic even in the coldest weather. You can boil them in linseed oil and make a great walnut oil stain for wood and furniture
Sure enough, I've been binge-watching and spending time with my mama and grandma in my thoughts and I kept thinking about grandma's arsh potatoes. And here you are with arsh potatoes! Blessings just keep dropping all over the place. Love your channel and all the great memories and education on a great place with great lives!
My family is Irish, Scotch and German. My Grans side was pure Irish. Always potatoes for every meal. Potatoes make an excellent add in for cakes, candies and breads. If you haven't, I HIGHLY recommend trying colcannon. We make it with leeks, a cabbage,kale and sometimes I toss in some bacon. Either boil or steam (Irish will steam them usually) along with the cabbage and kale. In a sepperate pan simmer LOTS of cream, butter and your leeks till they're tender. Mash the vegetables and add cream mixture. You really want a lot of cream. It should be a tad loose at first. Then you turn heat on low and slowly cook till thickened. Then add bacon. And more butter. We eat this on its own w some soda bread or homemade white bread. It's the perfect comfort food meal for the dead of winter. Kids love it. They all do.
It still just blows me away how our Irish ancestors made do with the most humble of ingredients, raising them to something truly heavenly. One of my Aunts did a lot of research into our Irish family history and she actually found records of where our folks got off a ship in 1736 (BEFORE the great potato famine) at Ellis Island and I could be wrong, but I believe that was before it was even known as Ellis Island. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. You’re saving some truly heirloom recipes. 🇺🇸❣️
Tipper, I LOVE Your videos,recipe,readings, stories, approach!! Much more entertaining than ANYTHING on the t.v.- wish I was a t.v. Executive cuz You and Your family would have a NUMBER ONE Variety show! Thx for sharing! Bless Up and Blaze On!
Another awesome video , Yep Arsh Taters were a staple at our house when I was a kid. My kids use to love to go spend a day with grandma cause she would fry them a Arsh tater . That cake reminds me a bit of the cake Mama would make at Christmas every year , It was a Raisin Nut cake , It had chocolate layers that had nuts and raisins cooked in them the it had a toping similar to the one you made in this video. My banjo picking buddy has a sheep farm , his wife spins wool to make yarn . She uses natural ingrediencies for die and black walnuts hulls it one of those she uses. I have also seen a video where a person soaked walnuts hulls in water , then he would pour the water out to gather worms for fishing , As the walnut water soaked into the ground the worms would crawl out to try to escape it. :-) Have a blessed day :-)
Thank you so much again Tipper! I am learning so much about my heritage from watching your channel. I am almost 90 Arsh. That was so cool to learn! When I did my ancestry kit. We are always told we were Cherokee and Osage. I told my dad recently that know we are not Cherokee. He doesn't believe the new fangled things. Let sleeping dogs lay. 🤗
Looks very good! 3rd time I've heard people using potato in desserts. Also reminded me of black walnut filled cookies I used to help an elderly church widow friend (Sis Smith she was more Indian than I was) make when i was growing up. I'd stay overnight w her, she had no indoor bathroom, would have the basin to wash off with and an outhouse. She would roll out the dough, and we'd get the filling started and I'd stir, then we'd sit down and fill them and pinch the 2 layers closed and bake em! I need to make them again! She was such a godly woman and could really sing!💖🎶
Another awesome recipe! You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep making these wonderful videos. May God richly bless you and your family.
My granny never had the privilege of school so she would say things like like that. A lump of butter and all. Bless her heart she was the smartest women I've ever known.
I’ve known too many educated fools. Fools doesn’t even come close to describing the idiocy they demonstrate. Good is evil. Evil is good. The word “science” is their god even if the result isn’t reproducible or provable in any manner. They don’t believe their eyes, they believe in “science”. If the science said the sky was purple but their eyes said it was blue, they would declare proudly that the sky is purple. I have no faith in today’s state sanctioned religion of science. Give me some common sense and faith in God!
I grew up just northwest of Birmingham Alabama. My daddy planted three black walnut trees next to the house. As kids we climbed those trees all the time - they were my favorite place to hang out...I can remember the feel of those trees and watching my cousins ride bikes around the trees as we all talked and laughed together. Every year we would collect the walnuts, crack them and give them to mama for baking. Thank you for the recipe! I will for sure, give it a try.
As someone in the UK, the name of this cake is quite funny. Now I wanna have a dinner party so I may ask folks, "would you prefer a baked arsh potato or a sweet potato?" 🤣
Poppy called them Arsh p'taters, but when he referred to our dark-haired Scots/Irish complexions, he used the term Black Irish and pronounced Irish in the normal way. I was probably in my late teens before I figured our Arsh=Irish. Great memory.
New subscriber here....today you made me think of endlessly picking out hickory nuts, for Mother’s hickory nut cake. She used the perfect halves to edge around the icing,, a real showstopper! We picked out kajillions of black walnuts, and butternuts, too. The walnuts stained our hands something turrible, we had to scrub with Daddy’s Lava soap!And I love to frame old, old handwritten recipes!
Now, we call red potatoes 'arsh taters'. Never was any other color used by my momma or was brought into the house! Now, I also do the same. I'm 54 and just bought white taters for the first time about a year ago. It was soooooo weird! 😃😊🙂
Loved hearing about this amazing recipe and the history that I know too well of 'Arsh Taters'. We had a white walnut tree up the holler a piece a d as much as I loved the black walnuts, nothing taste better than the white walnut kernels. Gathering and using them in fudge and buttermilk candy. Thanks for sharing!
So glad to have this recipe, A friend of ours we called her Aunt Melba used to make this for holidays. I never was able to get the recipe. Hers had golden raisins in the cake. I remember her cutting the raisins in two with scissors before she put them in the batter.
My father would bring home crates of them during my childhood. We live in the Northeast. They were wonderful! Much sweeter than the cultivated walnuts. The nuts were also smaller and took some digging to remove from their shells but well worth the effort😋 Fond memories of him cracking them open with a hammer for us kids ❤❤
I love this! My grandparents always called "regular" potatoes Irish potatoes. I still do when I'm trying to differentiate Irish potatoes from sweet potatoes. :)
This cake is new to me. It looks wonderful. I love Black Walnuts too. The stories you shared were great. My cousins who lived “down in the country” as we always called it, were from a tenant farming family. They cracked and picked out black walnuts and sold them.
Looks sooo good! I have gluten allergy and don’t eat much sugar but love watching your cooking and listening to your stories. Our family is from Texas but I still am comforted by your channel. Wait up though-isn’t your favorite Chess Cake? Thank you!
I saw one video where you said you were reading Girl Of The Limberlost. My mother introduced me to it years ago & I simply fell in love with it. I hadn't thought about in many years when I happened to find it at a flea market. It was just as tattered & dog-earred as it could be. The lady was asking $8 for it. I paid it & was so happy. I still have it & read it every so often. I have never ready any other stories by Gene Stratton Porter. I just love watching all the videos you & the family do. Your cooking is so simply & so good. Now I'm seeing you on Christmas morning this year. Thank you for the good entertainment. I watch you every night. :-)
I am so glad I found this video. My mama has always made an "Arsh Potato Cake". It's my favorite. I grew up in South Louisiana with Appalachian roots, so our home cooking was always different from our neighbors and friends. Everyone always looked at me like I was crazy when I told them about this cake, but almost everyone loved it after trying it. The only difference between yours and ours was that we always put the coconut in the cake and we used pecans instead of black walnuts (probably because pecans are more common around here) and we put sliced apples soaked in whiskey on the top. My mama always said the recipe had been in her family for a very long time and credited it to our Scottish ancestors - probably where the whiskey part comes from. Thanks so much for this!!
Mix equal parts oil, flour, and shortening together, and coat the pans with this mix. Your cakes won’t stick on you. I use 1/4 cup of each, and store the mixture in a bowl in the cabinet. It doesn’t go bad on me because I use it so frequently, but if you don’t bake often enough; just mix 1 TBSP of each, and you won’t have it go rancid on you.
OMG! I've been driving myself nuts trying to figure out what arsh potatoes are after you talked about your mom's childhood thanksgivings on another video. Now I know! New subscriber here, really enjoying your content!!
I recently found you and am so enjoying this channel. I love the reading about Dorie. I was born and raised in Texas, but so much of the language and habits of which you talk are from my parents. And, they were midwest people. My sister lived in Western North Carolina for 26 years after she married a man from there. I am familiar with a lot of the areas you mention and it is all so fun to remember my visits there. Thanks for the memories.
My grandmother's hands were always blackened around Thanksgiving and Christmas from cracking and shelling black walnuts. Her mother, who was from Philippi, WV, had taught her to make Black Walnut cake and a cookie called Black Walnut Cresents. My grandmother had a black walnut tree in her yard, but it did not produce enough walnuts, so every Fall, her grandchildren would visit her house in the far out country, and we would walk through the woods to a black walnut grove and gather more walnuts. It was set off from most of the other trees. Apparently, black walnut trees are toxic to some other trees. My grandfather blamed the demise of a six tree peach orchard on their black walnut tree.
My Paw paw used to say Arsh potatoes. He said it to where it sound like “harsh”.. Sounded like he said “Harsh taters”. You actually clarified this for me! Thanks!
This is my favorite cake that my grandmother made for us grandchildren growing up and haven't had it since, my beautiful bride noticed me watch you making it and surprised me with it on Valentine's day, thank you for sharing.
When you talk about black walnuts, you are in my line of eating. I used to have a huge black walnut tree in the yard. Most people don't even know what it is. They will think you are talking about the California walnuts which are totally different. My mama use to make a black walnut cake using white cake mix. What a great flavor.
This is what my German grandmother called a dump cake. All kinds of dump cake recipes are out there, but this is the one my gramma made in a Bundt pan, and this icing she also used in both the dump cake as well as the German Sweet Chocolate cake she always made.
As you can see by my last name i am Scot/Irish. Have did family history on Dad and Mom side. Have got it to when the family came over. Most everything i have seen you do i grew up around even tho i was born in the western US. My roots are deep in Appalachia today with family all over in the hills. Many thing have been handed down to my kids. They all 4 can hunt, cook, fish, smoke their own meet and more. Take care
I love the history and the back stories that go with your recipes! I absolutely love your channel and I hope you make content for years to come! I can’t wait to try to make some of these recipes!
I remember setting down in my parents living room when I was a young girl having a huge black walnut pile in front of me to shell. The husks alway turned my hands and I always smashed my fingers. My parents would sell them to people and earn extra money. Thank you for sharing this recipe God bless you and your family 💗
Nocino is an Italian liqueur traditional for Christmas. When the walnuts are still green and fuzzy on the tree, you cut them in half and soak them in any type of spirits with cloves and cinnamon. Well it’s a process. But my husband made it and it’s delicious.
The only place to truly get a yam is African or an African grocery where they actually import them, grocery stores etc....get it wrong all the time and call sweet potatoes yams, the canned candied yams, not yams, sweet potatoes, everything we fix for the holidays etc....are sweet potatoes, Google what a yam actually looks and tastes like, most Americans would not recognize a true actual yam....very different in appearance and taste
I am also Cherokee, i get green black walnuts and stuff in a jar cover with vodka and let set till black as coal strain and use liquid for a medicine, 1 spoon morning and night is good for thyroid problems
Exactly same experience. ‘Arsh’ vs sweet. Inexact measurements. Orally traded recipes. Bringing cuttings of their favorite flower, bush, and tree to family that lived a way off while visiting. Never go visiting empty-handed!
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I can see the potatoes making it super moist. Mom used thined out potatoes to make bread. Just use the water that you cook one in and thin the mash until it's like cream and use it for the milk. That potato bread was tender and made great toast to boot!
I could be wrong, but I think the cocoa is there to provide the acidity needed to react with the baking soda, since there are no other acidic ingredients. Usually, a cake recipe that uses baking soda will have buttermilk, sour cream, yogurt, or some other sour ingredient to interact with the soda.
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When my newlywed husband and I went to the grocery store for the first time, I asked him to find the potatoes, bless his heart he came back and told me that he could'nt find the harsh taters. I had to show him where the Irish potatoes were. We still to this day get a big kick out of this. When we hit a rough patch along the way. We say it's just a pan of Harsh taters. We've been married 51 years. Bless our hearts
Lol...when my husband and I first married we were at the store with my mom she told him to get some streaked meat he never did figure it out.
@@kikimae1830 - 🤣 That’s really funny, I got a kick out of that! We called it streaked meat or fatback.
That's a sweet story. 💕
Oh, I love this. God bless y’all!
Although I had cooked a good bit before I married, I hadn't bought groceries. I moved to another state and I remember looking at the variety of potatoes in the store and reading the labels trying to find the Arsh variety! I just picked out the ones that looked most similar to what was used at home. They tasted close enough to what I was used to, so I've continued to use them. Never have found those Arsh taters since I left Georgia. This looks and sounds so good!! I'll have to try it. Thanks for all you do.
Crushed walnut shells are great for stuffing pin cushions. They are abrasive and keep the pins sharp and the traces of oil make needles and pins glide through fabric.
My grandmother stuffed pin cushions with her hair that she took from her hair brush. I still have a couple of them and use them.
Oooooh big brain
@@chynnavindiola58 nah, just stuffed full of random shyt which is mostly not relevant. It's a traditional filling going back generations.
Does the oil not stain the fabric?
@@peachy75019 it's not that kind of oily.
You do more to educate America on Appalachia’s history than any other Channel I’ve ever seen! And ma’am I’ve seen many documentaries etc and read every book i could get my hands on and YOU explain our history better than anyone or anything I’ve seen! Great job! If you ever need a sponsor for your channel I believe we’d be glad to help out!
Wow-that is so nice! Thank you 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia we are gonna have to nickname you the professor! LOL!!
@@americanaxetoolco2076 how about Appalachian Queen? 😊
My Mom Mom was from Delaware. They were poor, lived on a farm, and she was the oldest of 13. She lived for summers when she would stay in town with her Granny who owned a cake shop! I miss my Mom Mom dearly! She had stories I loved hearing. She was the hardest working woman. She held a very good job with a major hospital in Central PA, she had a small orchard, a huge-HUGE garden,plots for strawberries, a patch of rhubarb and raspberries lined the edge of the woods and we had sassafras trees and black walnuts!! They were here favorite and she had many recipes using them that she got from her summers at the cake shop! We would gather up the fallen walnuts and lay them in our gravel/stone driveway and as we drove over them it removed the green outer layers, she pick the nuts up and put them in a 5 gallon bucket. Every time she filled it we would sit on the back porch with small hammers, nutcrackers, pickers-whatever and we’d all shell the nuts. I’m 50 and I very much regret not paying more attention to how she cooked and canned and froze. It was a simpler time but required honest hard but rewarding work. People now days can not be bothered with anything really! They want everything done for them, they want everything easy and they want it now! I miss summers filled with mornings of helping her, having a big fat tomato sandwich for lunch, a swim to cool off and a bit more help and a dinner of fresh hot bread, more thick cut tomatoes and cucumbers and corn on the cob! Mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm!! Love and miss you Mom Mom!
Mom Mom sounds wonderful 😀
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One of my favorite memories of my grandma and grandpa is their incredible story telling abilities...you have this ability. I just can’t get enough!
Thank you for taking the time to continue.
Tipper I've started to think of you as my friend from Appalachia I guess because even though we lived in different parts of the United States our lives are somewhat parallel. To me, you are a dear friend. ❤️
I love this channel and it takes me back to my maw maw and grandmother in northern Alabama. There's a wholesome Christian spirit while watching these videos. Thank you. I need this in this troubled world.
My grandparents were from NE Alabama🙋😊
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My grandparents are from Alabama also. There are some strong people from that state.
Think we all do ,
My mama said “arsh” potatoes, and I was grown before I realized she was really saying Irish. I wouldn’t trade my childhood growing up poor and country in upstate South Carolina for all the world’s riches. It’s my heritage, who I am, and regardless of what some may think, skin color or race has never an issue, and still isn’t for the most part. But, you can find hatred and ignorance anywhere, not just in my beloved South.I’ve lived in many areas of this country I love and fear for the future of, and I was shocked at the racist talk and behavior I found in Michigan and other Northern states. That’s one thing I’ve learned in my 74 years of life - it’s not confined to one area as I was led to believe. And being poor, I grew up with black friends and neighbors. My mama, God rest her sweet soul, raised me to treat others as I’d like to be treated, and it has served me well. I fear for and pray for the greatest country in the world - - the United States of America - and being born here is a blessing. We’re all brothers and sisters in Christ and we need to unite, heedless of race or creed, and save our country from what’s happening right now! May God both Bless and Protect the USA. ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏
Working class neighborhoods are more united then rural or northern suburbs in Michigan. I am 61 and live 5 street north of Detroit. We are a mixed neighborhood and get along fine. Maybe we're just to busy to bother
@@lorashampine3522 That was the case in most of the industrialized north where most everyone had a good union job that wanted one. There were no lynchings, segregated lunch counters, and separate restrooms.
We southerners share a culture, belief in God and therefore the same values. Growing up I played with the black children down the road and their mama was so nice to me. I’d have moved in with them in a heartbeat. Their smaller house was so full of love for each other that’s all that mattered to me. I lived in a new subdivision on the outskirts of Memphis in 1959. On the other side of the road were cotton sharecroppers and their families. Nowadays that arrangement wouldn’t work there but we were children and just liked playing together. Oh how I wish the world was like that now.
I'm right there with you, upstate S.C.
That looks so good so I've saved it to try. My daddy was born & raised in Texas & always called then Arsh taters, so I grew up thinking they were called Irish taters. Shocking.... they don't sell Irish taters at the grocery store. hehehe. My mom's family is from Appalachia. My ex mother in law loved black walnuts & would gather tons of them. After helping her crack them, I can believe the shells would stand up to s turbine engine! Lol. I'm Choctaw, & had never heard, but loved the story of the Cherokee women using them to catch fish! Storytellers are cherished in native cultures as they pass the stories & traditions to younger generations. You are a wonderful storyteller!
My daddy was from West Virginia and we would always tell the story of how when he grew up and moved out of WV, he went to the store and was looking for Arsh potatoes and no one knew what he was talking about and he finally realized that they were called Irish Potatoes! I'm so thankful to have found this channel.
My family is from Wise County , Virginia. My dad was a coal miner. We always said “taters”. I do remember the stack cake you mentioned. It was dad’s favorite. Mom used to pick wild field lettuce, mix it with green onions and “kill” it with hot bacon grease. That along with cornbread and I’m in heaven 😊.
I love killed lettuce n onions. I love to eat them with soup beans, cornbread, and a big skillet of Arsh taters, lol
We call it wilted lettuce. We use leaf lettuce, green onions, bacon grease and vinegar. So good with cornbread ! It makes my mouth water to just think of it.
Mustard greens were done that way by my mother. Wilted in an iron skillet with hot bacon grease then vinegar (and hot pepper sauce if I remember correctly) served with cornbread (and sometimes with streak o'lean ).
Mix a little fried sausage in it good stuff
I was raised in Wise County, between St. Paul and Coeburn, Va. All my family were coal miners, so I wanted no part of the mines, joined the military and left the hills, but have never forgotten the ways we lived and the foods we ate. I'm an old man now, but I still love the food, and I cook it myself now. The killed (wilted) lettuce really brought the old memories back. Thank you for that.
My mother born in the 30's, left the mountains of Eastern Ky. {Townsend Mt.,Lee Co.} with her Mom and Dad and went North to Newport.Ky. seeking work...she had a babysitter that always fixed arsh taters...I have heard just about every word you speak of...I have cracked many a black walnut for cakes,hickory nuts,too. My Dad's Mom was the only grandmother I knew,she was a wonderful cook many of her recipes were just learned and passed down from Mom to daughter...she cooked on a wood stove when first married ,milked a cow,churned butter,kept chickens,gardened and canned everything,stored spuds[that was the arsh tater,and turnips. I live now where my parents lived {went out in the world} and came back to Clark Co.
What exactly are arsh potatoes the red one? The golden? Or the baked potatoes
Know anyone that was an armstrong or do you know which mountain was called onion mountain
Those Walnut Stories were so interesting.
I definitely want to try this Cake. Yummy 😋
Made this is a 9×13 for my wife and kids. It was cleared out in about 3 days. A fun recipe to make, too. I really enjoyed the process. And you're absolutely right, it's good cooled a few hours, but phenomenal after 24.
Wonderful!
My Mom would have loved this. She was “Arsh” and she loved black walnuts. Love your recipes! Thank you. ❤️
Tip, I've eaten your Arsh Potato Cake and it is really good! In addition to being so good it's also an attractive cake to look at. Any time I come by your house I make a point of looking around to see what you have baked that I can nibble on. You really are a wonderful cook!
Thank you Miss Cindy!!
I always waited until the green walnut hulls turned black and boiled them in a kettle of water and melted parrafin wax on the top and dipped my traps in until they were dark brown to black and there was no visible shiny steel. As you then lifted the traps free, they were lightly coated with the melted parrafin wax and worked fantastic even in the coldest weather. You can boil them in linseed oil and make a great walnut oil stain for wood and furniture
My mother’s family came from Kentucky, I recognize your accent, you sound like my family! I love Appalachian cooking . You remind me of my mother.
Sure enough, I've been binge-watching and spending time with my mama and grandma in my thoughts and I kept thinking about grandma's arsh potatoes. And here you are with arsh potatoes! Blessings just keep dropping all over the place. Love your channel and all the great memories and education on a great place with great lives!
Love that!
My family is Irish, Scotch and German. My Grans side was pure Irish. Always potatoes for every meal. Potatoes make an excellent add in for cakes, candies and breads.
If you haven't, I HIGHLY recommend trying colcannon. We make it with leeks, a cabbage,kale and sometimes I toss in some bacon. Either boil or steam (Irish will steam them usually) along with the cabbage and kale. In a sepperate pan simmer LOTS of cream, butter and your leeks till they're tender. Mash the vegetables and add cream mixture. You really want a lot of cream. It should be a tad loose at first. Then you turn heat on low and slowly cook till thickened. Then add bacon. And more butter.
We eat this on its own w some soda bread or homemade white bread. It's the perfect comfort food meal for the dead of winter.
Kids love it. They all do.
It still just blows me away how our Irish ancestors made do with the most humble of ingredients, raising them to something truly heavenly. One of my Aunts did a lot of research into our Irish family history and she actually found records of where our folks got off a ship in 1736 (BEFORE the great potato famine) at Ellis Island and I could be wrong, but I believe that was before it was even known as Ellis Island.
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. You’re saving some truly heirloom recipes. 🇺🇸❣️
Yes, you are right... Ellis Island came much later.
Tipper, I LOVE Your videos,recipe,readings, stories, approach!! Much more entertaining than ANYTHING on the t.v.- wish I was a t.v. Executive cuz You and Your family would have a NUMBER ONE Variety show! Thx for sharing! Bless Up and Blaze On!
I live in upstate s.c, we use a lot of phases and words you do. My grandma was born 1898 she passed away in 1989. I still talk the way she did.
My sister in law is from upstate SC and taught me about mashed potato candy! Same idea as this. :)
Another awesome video , Yep Arsh Taters were a staple at our house when I was a kid. My kids use to love to go spend a day with grandma cause she would fry them a Arsh tater . That cake reminds me a bit of the cake Mama would make at Christmas every year , It was a Raisin Nut cake , It had chocolate layers that had nuts and raisins cooked in them the it had a toping similar to the one you made in this video. My banjo picking buddy has a sheep farm , his wife spins wool to make yarn . She uses natural ingrediencies for die and black walnuts hulls it one of those she uses. I have also seen a video where a person soaked walnuts hulls in water , then he would pour the water out to gather worms for fishing , As the walnut water soaked into the ground the worms would crawl out to try to escape it. :-) Have a blessed day :-)
Thank you so much again Tipper!
I am learning so much about my heritage from watching your channel.
I am almost 90 Arsh.
That was so cool to learn!
When I did my ancestry kit. We are always told we were Cherokee and Osage.
I told my dad recently that know we are not Cherokee.
He doesn't believe the new fangled things.
Let sleeping dogs lay. 🤗
I'm so glad you're enjoying our videos!
Looks very good! 3rd time I've heard people using potato in desserts. Also reminded me of black walnut filled cookies I used to help an elderly church widow friend (Sis Smith she was more Indian than I was) make when i was growing up. I'd stay overnight w her, she had no indoor bathroom, would have the basin to wash off with and an outhouse. She would roll out the dough, and we'd get the filling started and I'd stir, then we'd sit down and fill them and pinch the 2 layers closed and bake em! I need to make them again! She was such a godly woman and could really sing!💖🎶
Another awesome recipe! You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep making these wonderful videos. May God richly bless you and your family.
Thank you so much!
My granny never had the privilege of school so she would say things like like that. A lump of butter and all. Bless her heart she was the smartest women I've ever known.
Too bad she didn't get the chance to go to school. Modern kids don't appreciate what they have.
So was my grandma from Kentucky
Them mountain Folk probabally. Smarter than most educated people.
More common sense and hard workers.
I’ve known too many educated fools. Fools doesn’t even come close to describing the idiocy they demonstrate. Good is evil. Evil is good. The word “science” is their god even if the result isn’t reproducible or provable in any manner. They don’t believe their eyes, they believe in “science”. If the science said the sky was purple but their eyes said it was blue, they would declare proudly that the sky is purple. I have no faith in today’s state sanctioned religion of science. Give me some common sense and faith in God!
I grew up just northwest of Birmingham Alabama. My daddy planted three black walnut trees next to the house. As kids we climbed those trees all the time - they were my favorite place to hang out...I can remember the feel of those trees and watching my cousins ride bikes around the trees as we all talked and laughed together. Every year we would collect the walnuts, crack them and give them to mama for baking. Thank you for the recipe! I will for sure, give it a try.
As someone in the UK, the name of this cake is quite funny. Now I wanna have a dinner party so I may ask folks, "would you prefer a baked arsh potato or a sweet potato?" 🤣
Poppy called them Arsh p'taters, but when he referred to our dark-haired Scots/Irish complexions, he used the term Black Irish and pronounced Irish in the normal way. I was probably in my late teens before I figured our Arsh=Irish. Great memory.
I have heard that same description of Black Irish used here in Glasgow by older relatives
We always had Arsh potatoes, along with sweet milk and light bread. One of my favorites as a child was arsh potato pancakes
This cake is a keeper!!!
Thank you for the Cherokee story too.
Thank you for the memories of a mashed potato cake my grandmother made when I was a kid. I miss her dearly.♥️
New subscriber here....today you made me think of endlessly picking out hickory nuts, for Mother’s hickory nut cake. She used the perfect halves to edge around the icing,, a real showstopper! We picked out kajillions of black walnuts, and butternuts, too. The walnuts stained our hands something turrible, we had to scrub with Daddy’s Lava soap!And I love to frame old, old handwritten recipes!
Now, we call red potatoes 'arsh taters'. Never was any other color used by my momma or was brought into the house! Now, I also do the same. I'm 54 and just bought white taters for the first time about a year ago. It was soooooo weird! 😃😊🙂
love black walnuts for the arsh cake. I use black walnut flavoring in my hershey's fudge candy and it takes it to whole different and delicious level.
Loved hearing about this amazing recipe and the history that I know too well of 'Arsh Taters'. We had a white walnut tree up the holler a piece a d as much as I loved the black walnuts, nothing taste better than the white walnut kernels. Gathering and using them in fudge and buttermilk candy. Thanks for sharing!
My aunt would make the best black walnut cake.So delicious!
Arsh was calls by my granny mama Daddy . Fried tatters . Words and conversations Brings so many memories . Gods bless you . Do you have a cook book.
Carol-Thank you! Not yet but hopefully soon!
So glad to have this recipe, A friend of ours we called her Aunt Melba used to make this for holidays. I never was able to get the recipe. Hers had golden raisins in the cake. I remember her cutting the raisins in two with scissors before she put them in the batter.
My father would bring home crates of them during my childhood. We live in the Northeast. They were wonderful! Much sweeter than the cultivated walnuts. The nuts were also smaller and took some digging to remove from their shells but well worth the effort😋 Fond memories of him cracking them open with a hammer for us kids ❤❤
Love your necklace... my great granny was Appalachian and I remember her saying “arsh”, I sure miss her!
I love this! My grandparents always called "regular" potatoes Irish potatoes. I still do when I'm trying to differentiate Irish potatoes from sweet potatoes. :)
My grandma called them white potatoes thinking she needed to teach her city grandchildren the more modern terminology.
Tears flowed hearing that word again, Arsh Potato. So many memories of hearing my dad talk about Arsh Potatoes that had slipped my mind until now.. ty
This cake is new to me. It looks wonderful. I love Black Walnuts too. The stories you shared were great. My cousins who lived “down in the country” as we always called it, were from a tenant farming family. They cracked and picked out black walnuts and sold them.
I’m so glad to find this page. I’m watching every video from Sonoma County California.
Thank you 😀
Love how you don’t waste a speck of anything 😊
My grandma called them arsh potatoes- I miss her so much I’m 69 and I’ll be making some Of your recipes thank you again
My dad (from Scott County, Virginia) always said arsh potatoes, and I was grown before I knew why. Precious memories!
Thank you for the recipe and the stories behind some of the uses of the nuts. How interesting.
Looks sooo good! I have gluten allergy and don’t eat much sugar but love watching your cooking and listening to your stories. Our family is from Texas but I still am comforted by your channel. Wait up though-isn’t your favorite Chess Cake? Thank you!
My moma made these every year at Christmas! It was an Arsh tater cake.Moma was born in the 20s and from deep south Ga. ! ❤
I saw one video where you said you were reading Girl Of The Limberlost. My mother introduced me to it years ago & I simply fell in love with it. I hadn't thought about in many years when I happened to find it at a flea market. It was just as tattered & dog-earred as it could be. The lady was asking $8 for it. I paid it & was so happy. I still have it & read it every so often. I have never ready any other stories by Gene Stratton Porter. I just love watching all the videos you & the family do. Your cooking is so simply & so good. Now I'm seeing you on Christmas morning this year. Thank you for the good entertainment. I watch you every night. :-)
Thank you Molly! It is a great book 😀
Very interesting stories and uses for Black Walnuts will try this cake also thank you for sharing x❤️
Thank Tipper for sharing. I just ordered your cookbook off of Etsy. I love hearing all your memories and stories about Appalachia.❤️
Thank you so much 😀
God loves you. You are so blessed. Thank you for sharing your life.
Used the ground up shells in my sand blaster, they would clean everything including the skin right off your hand!
You are a true BLESSING, THANK YOU so much for sharing, we all are so spoiled now we all do not understand how good we got it
My husband was partially raised by grandparents in North Alabama and he says things like Arsh potatoes, light bread, sweet milk.
I am so glad I found this video. My mama has always made an "Arsh Potato Cake". It's my favorite. I grew up in South Louisiana with Appalachian roots, so our home cooking was always different from our neighbors and friends. Everyone always looked at me like I was crazy when I told them about this cake, but almost everyone loved it after trying it. The only difference between yours and ours was that we always put the coconut in the cake and we used pecans instead of black walnuts (probably because pecans are more common around here) and we put sliced apples soaked in whiskey on the top. My mama always said the recipe had been in her family for a very long time and credited it to our Scottish ancestors - probably where the whiskey part comes from. Thanks so much for this!!
Just looks like an absolutely wonderful cake and I can imagine why it's one of your favorites
I love the stories❤️
Mix equal parts oil, flour, and shortening together, and coat the pans with this mix. Your cakes won’t stick on you. I use 1/4 cup of each, and store the mixture in a bowl in the cabinet. It doesn’t go bad on me because I use it so frequently, but if you don’t bake often enough; just mix 1 TBSP of each, and you won’t have it go rancid on you.
OMG! I've been driving myself nuts trying to figure out what arsh potatoes are after you talked about your mom's childhood thanksgivings on another video. Now I know! New subscriber here, really enjoying your content!!
We still use that to clean our turbo chargers aboard deep sea vessels! It makes the whole engine room smell like roast chestnuts!
I recently found you and am so enjoying this channel. I love the reading about Dorie. I was born and raised in Texas, but so much of the language and habits of which you talk are from my parents. And, they were midwest people. My sister lived in Western North Carolina for 26 years after she married a man from there. I am familiar with a lot of the areas you mention and it is all so fun to remember my visits there. Thanks for the memories.
Welcome! So glad you're enjoying our videos 😀
I love black walnuts! I'm looking forward to trying this cake. Thank you for sharing.
Watching your channel is a joy!
Thank you!
I finally got ahold of the makings to fix this cake and I know it's going to be delicious. Thank you very much Tipper.
My grandmother's hands were always blackened around Thanksgiving and Christmas from cracking and shelling black walnuts. Her mother, who was from Philippi, WV, had taught her to make Black Walnut cake and a cookie called Black Walnut Cresents. My grandmother had a black walnut tree in her yard, but it did not produce enough walnuts, so every Fall, her grandchildren would visit her house in the far out country, and we would walk through the woods to a black walnut grove and gather more walnuts. It was set off from most of the other trees. Apparently, black walnut trees are toxic to some other trees. My grandfather blamed the demise of a six tree peach orchard on their black walnut tree.
I’m going to make this. Sounds amazing!
Love the family history stories i feel like im down in Mississippi. 😊
My Paw paw used to say Arsh potatoes. He said it to where it sound like “harsh”.. Sounded like he said “Harsh taters”.
You actually clarified this for me! Thanks!
This is my favorite cake that my grandmother made for us grandchildren growing up and haven't had it since, my beautiful bride noticed me watch you making it and surprised me with it on Valentine's day, thank you for sharing.
That is so sweet! I'm glad she made it for you 😀
Wow, I grew up hearing my mamaw call them "arsh" taters. Awesome !
Me too
@@DennisRay99 Mt. Carmel TN. You ?
@@AllenGoodman My family was from Corbin KY
My grandmother in Alabama too.
It was that or sometimes white potatoes. Never just plain potatoes for Granny she had to be exact.
When you talk about black walnuts, you are in my line of eating. I used to have a huge black walnut tree in the yard. Most people don't even know what it is. They will think you are talking about the California walnuts which are totally different. My mama use to make a black walnut cake using white cake mix. What a great flavor.
This is what my German grandmother called a dump cake. All kinds of dump cake recipes are out there, but this is the one my gramma made in a Bundt pan, and this icing she also used in both the dump cake as well as the German Sweet Chocolate cake she always made.
I love this recipe and the story you told about the cake & especially the black walnuts & Arsh potatoes. I'm "Arsh American". LOL
Black walnuts are abundant here and I'm always looking for new recipes! Thanks for the ideas..
Yeah for u
As you can see by my last name i am Scot/Irish. Have did family history on Dad and Mom side. Have got it to when the family came over. Most everything i have seen you do i grew up around even tho i was born in the western US. My roots are deep in Appalachia today with family all over in the hills. Many thing have been handed down to my kids. They all 4 can hunt, cook, fish, smoke their own meet and more. Take care
Amazing stories too. Thank you.
I love the history and the back stories that go with your recipes! I absolutely love your channel and I hope you make content for years to come! I can’t wait to try to make some of these recipes!
You are so kind-thank you 🙂
I remember setting down in my parents living room when I was a young girl having a huge black walnut pile in front of me to shell. The husks alway turned my hands and I always smashed my fingers. My parents would sell them to people and earn extra money. Thank you for sharing this recipe God bless you and your family 💗
Looks wonderful. Thank you for the post.
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I love tater cakes. My mom used to fix them sometimes.
Nocino is an Italian liqueur traditional for Christmas. When the walnuts are still green and fuzzy on the tree, you cut them in half and soak them in any type of spirits with cloves and cinnamon. Well it’s a process. But my husband made it and it’s delicious.
Yep as a kid growing up we called it an Irish potato. You know what else I got mixed up was the yam and the sweet potato.
Yams grow on a vine, sweet potatoes grow under the soil.
The only place to truly get a yam is African or an African grocery where they actually import them, grocery stores etc....get it wrong all the time and call sweet potatoes yams, the canned candied yams, not yams, sweet potatoes, everything we fix for the holidays etc....are sweet potatoes, Google what a yam actually looks and tastes like, most Americans would not recognize a true actual yam....very different in appearance and taste
Thank you for this white icing walnut recipe ! I enjoy your channel !!!
I am also Cherokee, i get green black walnuts and stuff in a jar cover with vodka and let set till black as coal strain and use liquid for a medicine, 1 spoon morning and night is good for thyroid problems
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing that 😀
Exactly same experience. ‘Arsh’ vs sweet. Inexact measurements. Orally traded recipes. Bringing cuttings of their favorite flower, bush, and tree to family that lived a way off while visiting. Never go visiting empty-handed!
Thank you for this great video! I use black walnut powder in a healing foot powder, it's great for athletes foot.
I love black walnuts! This must be delicious!
We didn't have access to black walnuts where we lived when I was growing up, but mama always put black walnut extract in her special chocolate cake.
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I love your channel. Your videos are so enjoyable. Great stories mixed in with cooking/ baking.
Thank you so much!
I can see the potatoes making it super moist. Mom used thined out potatoes to make bread. Just use the water that you cook one in and thin the mash until it's like cream and use it for the milk. That potato bread was tender and made great toast to boot!
I could be wrong, but I think the cocoa is there to provide the acidity needed to react with the baking soda, since there are no other acidic ingredients. Usually, a cake recipe that uses baking soda will have buttermilk, sour cream, yogurt, or some other sour ingredient to interact with the soda.
You are so sweet, thank you for explaining and sharing.
You are so welcome!
Love your videos - and your accent takes me back the the Great Aunts of my childhood. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Thanks for sharing , I saved the recipe and plan to make it this Fall!🤗❣️🌸👍