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Looking at this video again, I remember something I think of often. My uncle Buck cooked a lot. One was an old fashioned fudge. With a gritty brown sugar consistency taste. I regret not asking for the recipe. If anyone has it, please share. It would mean so much. Thank you
I love to make Christmas ornaments and give them to the older ladies at church on Christmas Eve.
I’m sure you have a video for sugar cookies and I’d love to start making them with mine! I have a 3.5 year old son and a 2 month old daughter.. haven’t hung a single ornament this year 😂 don’t want the fight lol .. the tree is decorated with last years tinsel and colored lights😂
We make scalloped oysters for Thanksgiving and Christmas
My dad, he passed in 1958, every New Years Eve 🎉 at midnight he would take his old shotgun out in the front of our house in a residential area and shoot it off … those were the days… ❤
Here in Pendleton County, WV serenading has always been referred to as belsnickling.
Traditions for my family growing up we opened our gifts at midnight.
I didn't continue this when I got married. We opened our gifts Christmas morning. We did let our kids open one gift Christmas Eve. It was usually pajamas. We loved stringing popcorn and cranberries. Every year the kids were able to choose one new decoration. When they moved I gathered their ornaments for them to take. You would have thought I was kicking them out! Finally they each chose one to take and left the rest. They just couldn't imagine the tree without their ornaments. We always made a birthday cake for Jesus and sang Happy birthday to him.
Our Church always has Laying of the Green. Everyone brings greenery and we decorate the sanctuary. The first Saturday of December we gathered all of the preschool and up to third grade to make sugar cookies. I was a preschool teacher for many years and I loved this. All of the teachers made several batches of sugar cookie dough. The kids all rolled it out, cut them and decorated. Some of the youth loved to come help cleanup and bake cookies. Of course the pay was broken cookies. The older elementary and Jr. High kids made cookies for different functions. Usually they were served after laying the greens.
this is the second time I’ve watched this video. The pine cones are something I like to decorate with. I will either just use glue and paint it on the cones and sprinkle glitter on them so it sparkles. Or I paint them different colors and sprinkle glitter on them while they were still wet. It reminds me of snow covered pine cones and I glue a ribbon on the end and hang them on my tree or other places.
I look forward to Christmas ever year.
It's June, not December
We always got an orange, apple, a couple little boxes of raisins and English walnuts in our stocking at Christmas. I am also familiar with the ground cedar, or what we call running cedar. It grew on our old family farm in the piedmont. My country cousins would go out there and gather enough to decorate their mailbox posts and mantels – so beautiful! We don't really do that anymore because it got kind of scarce and we didn't want to destroy it.
In the little house on the prairie books by Laura Ingall’s Wilder, they had oyster stew at Christmastime, not sure what day specifically. That would have been in the mid 1800’s . When you said your family make this it struck a chord with me! I had never heard this till I read the “Little house books. I am 61 and read them every year! They warm my heart ❤️ Love your channel and your girls!
I did not know about the differance of miseltoe. Yes there are kids that bag up Differant greens you talked of in sandwich bags and you could find them on street corners Walmart area .or a grocery parking lot.
Mama made all kinds of candy .pb fudge . Haystacks . And my grand mother made applesauce muffins . I have those recipes.
Mama allways cooked fried chicken w bake potatoe and brussel sprouts. Christmas Eve .
As a lad in the 50s we would go to our grandfather's house to celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve.. There were 11 siblings and many many grand children. I have never heard the tradition of firecrackers until seeing your presentation. At grandpa's we always had lots of firecrackers on Christmas Eve…now I know the "rest of the story".
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
One of are traditions is on Dec 5th the night of St Nick comes, and puts 🍊 nuts, and toys in your Christmas Stockings you hang up or leave out, for the kids to have the day after .It's telling kids get ready for Christmas it's like Santa clause is watching.. Every year in are family we either got ice skates or a sledor tobaggon because after Christmas we would go sliding on a hill, or skating on the nearest pond with all the other kids .We would build a fire on the lake and skate all night, until we got cold or tired.
We always had fresh baked goods like cookies and doughnuts during the holidays..
We put are Christmas tree up the day after Thanksgiving so family can enjoy it more, and also for those who come to visit, they like to see how other people decorate there 🌲 trees .
We wrap all the kids gifts in different kinds of Santa Paper we tell the kids that's from Santa cuz his wrapping of his is from the north pole.
The gifts from Mom and Dad are in different wrapping paper .
My cousins family don't wrap gifts from Santa they are placed unwrapped under the tree, and gifts from mom and dad are wrapped . She told me Santa don't wrap presents..
We don't open gifts on Christmas Eve..That's went Santa comes..
We always told the kids you don't believe, you don't get anything for Christmas because we wanted it to be magic for them on Christmas..
We have big Christmas dinners, with Ham, mashed potatoes, deviled eggs,pasta salad, cranberries, and lots more.
We have tamales on Christmas Day and sometimes oyster stew on Christmas Eve!
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Think Matt would show how to make oyster stew
I just watched a video, not sure if you've seen it, but the channel name is Real Appalachi, The video name is Christmas in Appalachi 1964 Revisiting the CBS special Report by Charles Kuratt with updates. Thought I'd share in case you hadn't seen it.
I really enjoyed this, as always, Tipper! Thank you for your good influence! 💓 🎄
So many Toney's down here. Matt's family probably came thru here before settling up there.
Serenading. My pawpaw, my momma's daddy. Loved fox hunting. He had 2 cow horns, to call his dogs in. I wonder, if he used these cow horns to blow on Christmas or New Years. Makes me wonder.
Doesn't the Oysters stew come from English traditions?
My late son Brendan was born 12/25/66. He passed in his sleep from pneumonia in 2011. That was my best Christmas the day he was born.
My brother used to crawl the tree for mistletoe and sell it. We are in Oklahoma. He had more fun making a little money during the holiday.
We grew up with talk about the old twelve days and the old Christmas. Was said the animals bowed on their knees at midnight.
My papaw made oyster stew .I always tried to eat it and it taste good but for some reason I would gag.
I love oyster stew! My grandma on my Dad's side and my Dad taught me to make oyster stew. We don't have it for any special occasion, just when we have a taste for it. There are people around Memphis who make oyster dressing, with saltine crackers in it. I have never been able to find the recipe for it, but I've had it, my step uncle's wife made it, but I never got the recipe. It was Really good. All the recipes for it I've seen call for cornbread in it, not crackers. People sell firecrackers around here too, in Memphis, (for New Years mainly) but they start selling them in early December. Thanks for sharing these great folklore traditions with us! Sending love from Memphis!
I’m not sure where it came into our family traditions but we observe that oyster stew tradition too! Until this year, everyone is gone from my family to the point where I’m forgetting all the great memories until people like y’all bring those precious memories back to life! Thank you thank you Tipper!
Christmas is a very important holiday for us. But we think that Thanksgiving is even as important for us. It is the holiday you do not buy gifts for. All you do is give thanks for our great Nation Family and friends. We have one prayer for the day. But anyone who wants to add to prayer they are welcome. But now for Christmas. We do a Christmas party for the whole family at one of my wife family house. This year it is at our house. We play games than do a game to exchange gifts. Than My wife Mom gets her gifts from all her children. One of our best tradition is going Christmas Lights Tour. Usually a few days before Christmas. We ride around and see all the Christmas lights. Or we will go to TMT Farms in Statesboro Georgia and see their Huge Christmas lights display.
the irish celebrate old christmas over here and scotland they call it little chrismas really enjoyed your video yet again god bless from a Geordie lad in England and enjoy your christmas this year as its almost upon us
I live in the Appalachian Mountains . Years ago oyster stew(as the old people called it ) was made after hogs were hung up and killed , they took what they called “hog nuts” and made the stew from the testicles of the hog ( not any real oysters) , nothing was wasted . Love all your stories of the old ways . They did what they had to for survival.
This is the first I’ve heard of “Old Christmas.” Very interesting!
I thought about for Christmas this year for the adults is get a smaller brown sandwich bag and put in each one an apple, an orange, a candy cane, hot chocolate pack, or so me loose candy and fill them up and gave each one a bag with goodies in it. What do you think?
My mom said while growing up in Arkansas, the biggest Christmas treat was fruit and candy from church.
I really like this it is so good .the serenade cam from the tutors in 16th century they did the very same thing and who was getting serenaded would reply may you live as long as you want to and want as long as you live …you look on absolute history .a tutor farm Christmas .thanks Tipper
I couldn't help thinking just now. Talking about animals and talking. We use to live in Nickelsville in swva. Our house was between two properties and there were horse pastures on either side of us. One day i wS sitting on the front porch and horses on either side of us looked like they were talking . When the news came on later they said there was an earthquake near us. I didn't feel it but I guess that is what those horses was talking about.
I have 85 huge FIR trees in my yard… this Christmas I'm going to take a walk and sit under them, if I don't comment on your channel after that… well, you know.
One thing I usto do for the holidays was going around to the elderly people home and give them Christmas trees with $100 dollar's