A Traditional Appalachian Meal and How to Make Soup Beans and Kilt Lettuce 

I am so glad to see such a beautiful celebration of culture. I am black and from the south and this is familiar to me as well (beans and cornbread). I do believe we would be a healthier nation if we got back to food basics. Thanks for sharing.

My Mexican mom would say the plate pictured was a "poor man's meal fit for a king." And she was right! I still cook like this. Thanks to God for all He provides. The cultures are not to far apart.

I did not learn that beans were considered a “side dish” until I went to college! My family, in upper E Tennessee, lived on pinto beans/onions in the winter and green beans/onions all summer! Cornbread with both!

My mother cooked a large pot of navy beans and ham bones every Saturday for 6 children and my Grandfather and Uncle. The fellas came up every Saturday to cut and chop wood for our stove. We children helped however we could. Loved the memories of cold weekends and a warm kitchen filled with the wonderful smells of bean soup. My mother was a wonderful cook and I miss her dearly.

Cornbread and REAL BUTTER. This cannot be stressed enough in my opinion. 😁

I live in NE Oklahoma, Cherokee country. I grew up eating beans and fried potatoes with cornbread. There was 7 of us kids so we always had a pot of pinto beans on the stove. The wilted lettuce and fresh green onions are the best additions. I am in my sixties and my husband and I still have a pot of beans every week. We are having some today with the lettuce but I don’t have any Irish potatoes so we are having baked sweet potatoes with a hunk of butter on it or I might make pan fried sweet potatoes which we love also. I love the springtime so we can go out to the garden and gather green onions…soon will be fresh green peas and new potatoes. You and Matt are a true joy to watch, as you both remind me of my own family. Thank you for sharing your lives with us all…it makes these trying times seem much better.

You are a gifted story-teller! We love Soup Pinto beans with cornbread, cabbage, fried taters and onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and pickled beets on the side. Yum yum.

When your soup beans start thickening and lose their sppeal, add chicken broth, sauteed onion, celery and garlic and make bean soup. It freezes beautifully and is so good.

This woman is a national treasure! I came here to learn her recipe and 30 minutes later I don’t care about it. 10 minutes in I was sitting here with a huge grin listening to her talk about so many different things other than the actual recipe (Matt’s birthday, mayo and beans, cornbread and taters, fatback or side meat) I just so captured by her story telling that I couldn’t stop watching! I truly loved watching this video! I didn’t even write down the recipe! You just keep doing what you’re doing Mrs. Pressley!

Ate Beans and cornbread, fried tatars, with onions, almost everyday of my life until I was married. I love it still. Good tasting, nutritious, and filling. I think we will see days soon, that we all will be eating like this again.

In a Mexican household we use tortillas! We soak ours over night in a tablespoon of white vinegar. The beans come out nice bright peach flesh tone color! Smash them up in bacon greese or lard. Roll up in a fresh tortilla, cheese, and with fresh salsa. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Or in a bowl like a soup! Gonna try some with homemade blue cornmeal cornbread.

I just had ask my wife, " what is it about these folks that makes ya just love 'em". It's like the song ,"almost home", I'm from that area, now live seven hours away, the truth in there voice, the display of a simple, honest hard working family life, brings me home every time I watch 'em. You just can't beat beans & cornbread. Celebrate on!

In my childhood home we had pintos every Monday. My mom "looked" the dried beans and set them to soak on Sunday night. Then she out them on the stove early Monday morning right before she started the washing, an ordeal that took the whole day with the wringer washer and wash tubs arranged all around the kitchen! On cold or rainy days, she hung the clothes on a line in the living room, as the beans simmered on the stove. Beans and cornbread with fried potatoes. Monday supper.

I grew up on the gulf coast of Texas eating much like this. Beans, cornbread, salt bacon, thick slice of fresh onion, and tomato from the garden and that’s supper. Being a Mexican family that had been in Texas since before Texas was a thing, our food was a melting pot. So it was not uncommon to have tortillas, okra, pan fried pork chops, and beans on the table. I just love how so many things regionally and culturally are the same, but also all the unique differences.

Looks SO GOOD I’m from East Texas but I was raised eating meals like that to . I live in Eastern Kentucky now & still think it’s one of the best meals to eat . Love your show . Lord Bless ❤️

I love this! I'm half Arab, and this recipe reminded me of a simple dish we make. Chick peas are a huge part of our diet. Soak them overnight, then next day throw them in the pressure cooker and cook until desired softness. Then scoop a bowl of beans, some of that bean broth, and top with just salt, a little cumin, and good quality olive oil, and serve with soft warm pita bread. Nothing fancy, nothing you'd see on a restaurant menu, but just some good ole wholesome beans for a full and warm belly 😋

This is a meal for kings! 👑 Tipper, you are a wonderful cook and a great ambassador for Appalachia life! I swear, if we had more families like yours, our country would be in a much better place! God bless ~

Beans and cornbread are good all year around too! Winter savory soup with potatoes, onions and ham, and summertime as a side dish with fresh veggies. Gotta love it 👍 🌿🌹🌿

I so wanted to eat dinner with you & Matt. Boy, everything looked beyond good. My mom called her hot lettuce dish, wilted lettuce. She used bacon grease. We also had beans, fried potatoes, cornbread, tomatoes, green onions, cucumbers on the side. It was really fun to see Matt cutting up!

To have a wife this cool would honestly be the blessing they talk about the Bible....

This brings back memories of meals at my grandparents. Soup beans, corn bread, greens, potatoes and sliced tomatoes, and sliced onions.😊 Looks delicious. I wish I had them now.

I swear I could eat soup beans and corn bread everyday! With some chopped white onion Or some good chow chow it's always a special treat! And thanks again --always enjoy your presentations.

I laughed when you said , "If you didn't eat soup beans and fried potatoes".... I grew up in northeastern Kentucky, which is still Appalachia, but we have so much in common, it's almost indistinguishable, love your channel! We always called it wilted lettuce, which you've talked about, I love the history with the vittles!

As a child in Baltimore, my mother would make wilted lettuce. After she took the bacon from the pan, she would pit vinegar and sugar in with the bacon grease and bring to a boil. When it got a bit thick, she poured it over lettuce and thinly sliced onions. Always one of my favorite things. Now I use that dressing on spinach salad.

My mom made Great Northern beans with ham hocks a lot. I make mixed soup beans. Love cornbread with it too. Never heard of kilt lettuce, though, we had something called wilted lettuce that may have been the same. I love that you call it a feast. True appreciation and gratitude for the Earth”s bounty.

My favorite story of my dad’s was his telling of how they’d have beans one day and the soup of the beans the next. Born in 1918 so a survivor of The Depression in Appalachia. Galax, Va was his home.

Haven't heard the term "kilt lettuce" since my Granny Becky passed in 1989. Because of her I have a love of beans, salt pork, kilt lettuce and potato soup with fried pork chops. She taught me in the old ways, being from Ky.

I grew up on beans and cornbread. I still eat them 2 or three times a week it's my favorite comfort food Grandma had pinto beans on the table at every meal. ❤️

Ramps are wild leeks, foraged from shaded, woody areas. They're one of the first signs of spring, and one of the first edible green things to hit markets. Their flavor is a combination of garlicky, oniony, and pungent. You can use them anywhere you would use scallions or spring onions.

I grew up with neighbors from the foothills of Appalachia. They made some of the best food ever. I still copy those foods 40 years later. You show that great food comes from the simplest of ingredients, and it is economical and healthy. Thanks a bunch.

What a great installment this is. I was raised on soup beans and I still love them. In my area Great Northern beans were the most common by far. I have enough stories involving beans for a book of essays. One of my favorites is about my Grandma Byers. During the Great Depression food had to go as far as possible. Grandma was very resourceful so when she didn't have quite enough of one thing, she had creative ways to stretch what she had. One dish that turned out to be a family favorite; beans and noodles, or beans and dumplings. Grandpa worked on the railroad which was physically difficult, especially in those days. Needless to say, a healthy appetite goes with the territory. Grandma had a few soup beans, a little salt pork, and a few staples. She always made noodles or dumplings which only takes flour and a few eggs. She got her pot of soup beans boiling and dropped them in. Finally she had a pretty good sized pot of them. My grandpa, my dad and his brother loved them! She had made a version of "Stone Soup" that stuck with us. Part two of this story: Grandma was very reluctant to cook them when I was a kid because she was afraid someone (friend or neighbor) would stop by for a visit and see what she had cooked. She said that was "depression cooking" and she was a little embarrassed by it. That was Grandma, through and through.

You are a natural born teacher!! It’s so wonderful how you let cooks know that there are so many ways to do things and they can find the way that is the most comfortable to them. So many people have so much anxiety over cooking, but really one can cook anyway they want! I grew up eating beans and I LOVE beans still today! And I grew up in San Francisco, CA! Love watching your channel, especially all of the cooking videos. Your kitchen is awesome and very cute. Keep up the good work and God bless!

I have commented before about my Dad being raised in the Ozarks, and how similar some Appalachian things seem to be. Well, my Dad’s been gone for twenty years now, but WOW did this just bring him right to me! Lots of times, though, my Dad would use fried bacon & loved to pour it over wild mustard greens. When I was little, he taught me how to recognize them, and he would send me out to find him some. My Mom would always make the beans on Fridays, probably so that any after effects would be gone by Monday. 😆 We would also have it with Cornbread and often fried potatoes. My Mom was from Irish roots, so she learned to make this meal for my Dad. I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you. 💜

Heavens to Betsy! I grew up knowing your "kilt lettuce" as wilted lettuce. That has been one of my Momma's favorite foods and in the late spring, early summer, we could expect that to be on the table at least 2-4 times a week. Momma would use the lettuce, and spring onions, but she also made sure to put a little of the bacon bits in it as well. Daddy wasn't a fan of it, but my brother and I could eat it without problems. Oh mercy, that took me back.

Ahhh, the real Matt came out! Love it! I knew he couldn’t be as serious as he seemed! We have eaten dried beans and cornbread my entire life. We call it “beans and bread”, and when we have it, it’s the only thing we have. For me, it’s a complete meal. I do cook mine on the stove all day (no soaking or parboiling) and I add water as they need it. I season very simply with salt and pepper and a little corn oil-but if it’s near Thanksgiving and we happen to have a Honey Baked Ham, I’ll use the ham bone from it for seasoning. Now that’s when we have officially taken beans and bread up a notch!! I also like mine a little thickened, (but never so thick that it’s pasty-yuck), so during the last hour or so of cooking I will mash about a quarter of the beans up against the pot with the back of my spoon and then stir them back in. That thickens the broth just enough for us. Oh, and 3 of my kids eat them with ketchup. But what am I gonna do? We all have people in our family that we’re ashamed of. 😜🤣💛

You can tell she’s the nurturer and he’s the protector❤️ it’s refreshing to see a good marriage. 💯

When Matt put his plate in front of camera, I just wanted to reach out and take it!!!! One of our favorite. Wilted lettuce, beans cornbread & fried taters!!! We like beans made over open fire too. Y'all have a wonderful rest of the day!!!

I was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. From what I can tell the ways of the Appalachians pretty much were the way of the Ozarks. I have had beans, cornbread and fried taters many many times growing up. As with most families here in the Ozarks money was tight and beans and taters were a staple. Love your videos. They bring back memories.

I was raised on good ole soup beans, fried taters, cornbread, and fresh garden maters and onions too. I have precious memories of my mama and grandma making this meal. It's still one of my favorites. Ps. My daddy's name was Woodrow. Thank you for sharing, I've had a flood of memories come back to me 🙂

🥘🥣Thank you for giving me some apetite again. I ate pea soup yesterday, our national meal. Many people may not know but the mountains we call the Laurentians are considered by geologists to be a part of the Appalachian mountains. the only thing is that the St-Lawrence river added a valley that splits the Appalachian mountains in two. Our old folks had pretty much the same folklore and fiddling and cultivated pretty much the same herbs. 🍁

Soup beans and corn bread were my birthday dinner. My mother made our favorite meal for all 5 of us. I recently taught my daughter how to make them. Yummy tradition.

Tipper & Family - Rhonda and I really enjoy all your videos but this one about soup beans was especially great! We both grew up in families that routinely had pinto beans, fried potatoes and onions and some kind of salty meat. Rhonda grew up in Abilene, Texas and I was born in a coal-mining area deep in the mountains of Dickinson County, Virginia and grew up until I was 18 within 80 miles of my birth place. Rhonda’s paternal grandfather wanted pinto beans at both dinner and supper, every day of the week. Now that we are in our “golden years” living on a small farm outside Wytheville, Virginia, we are keeping with our family traditions. Now Rhonda soaks and then cooks our pintos overnight in her crockpot so that the kitchen doesn’t get too hot in the summer and it is one less thing to worry about the next day. She fries our potatoes with onions, makes our cornbread and pan fries our salty meat - Country Ham (my absolute favorite!). We occasionally have “wilted” lettuce to go with our meal. Rhonda uses a whole bag of pintos when she makes them and puts up some in the freezer and we will have them for more meals, especially our other most favorite food, anything Mexican! We have refried beans with tacos, chimichangas, pork in tomatillo sauce (Carnitas in Salsa Verde), enchiladas, etc. So the beans that Rhonda makes for us serves us in several ways. (I have to moderate the amount of beans and cornbread that I have at any one time as I am a Type II diabetic and both will raise my blood glucose readings. Fortunately, my diabetes is under control and I only test twice a day to keep track of where it is at. So I will eat all the foods that Rhonda cooks for the two of us, but for some of the carb-heavy foods, I moderate the amount that I eat at one time.) We wish you all well and keep on posting your great videos! Dwight

Thanks for another lesson of where my family meals came from. I was raised on pretty much this exact meal and had it regularly. My grammy, who taught me to cook, was born in Texas but her mom was born in the Ozarks to parents who moved there from your area in Appalachia. Also, kudos on you and Matt being such a great team, it's inspiring!

Delicious! And Matt helping with the dishes! He’s a keeper!

Thank you. It’s been so many years since I heard Mamaw say a mess of kilt lettuce. Of course you are much younger, but you are so comfortable talking about your food, lifestyle, music, friends and family as she was. You are helping so many of us who have moved away from our homeplace and dearly miss it.

Your meal looked so good, it takes me right back to my Mamaw's house. Every meal was corn bread, soup beans, boiled potatoes and canned green beans. So good! I loved the scene of everyone cleaning up at the end of the meal.

I've grew up on brown beans and corn bread, my Granny made them, my mom did and I do too, the best that I ever eat was cooked by my great aunt Bonnie, I have the best memories of her suppers when she made beans!! I've cooked them many different ways but now that I'm older, my favorite way is in my instant pot, I "look" my beans and rinse them, put them in my pot for 35 or 40 minutes with just water, after I let the pressure off, I salt them, add some bacon grease and using the satay setting on my cooker, I cook the beans hard for about 20 more minutes, we love the juice to be thick and they always turn out really good!

75 year old retired chef and lifetime foodie here, and I just learned so many new things! That is true American soul food, beautifully prepared with love. I could hand out in the kitchen and garden with this lovely lady all day! Truly a treasure!

I loved seeing that Matt had milk with his meal. We always have milk to drink when we have soup beans and cornbread, as well as when we have chili. Our friends think we're crazy, but milk is the best with those two meals.

I love these kinds of videos where it it's not a professional chef in a professional kitchen, just an ordinary person teaching ordinary people, how to cook for their family!

You have such a lovely family. Just seeing the time you spend together, doing normal things. The help you give each other, the respect and kindness you give each other...it's beautiful and something that we (as a society) have been slowly losing.

I appreciate this channel so much. I married an Appalachian man (east tennessee/kentucky border) 18 years ago this month and I cannot express how much I relate to this. Every time we go back - usually a funeral, wedding or birth - there is a least one pot of soup beans on the buffet table. I have no context for it because I only know two Appalachian families but this makes so much sense. My husband's great Aunt Sissy (RIP) with her double boiler, soup beans, sausage balls, and strawberry n pretzel salad. I inherited some of her cookbooks, some of them Mamaw's from the 50s. As a Colorado girl, still the square peg in the round hole but I've gotten some points for longevity lol!

This meal takes me back to my childhood. Pinto beans was a Saturday meal for my family. And love the kilt lettuce but I remember mom put a little vinegar in the grease. If you were standing to close to the stove it would take your breath away. Love your channel.

Love these country meals like I was raised on. We'd have beans and cornbread all during the week and roast or chicken on the week-end. Great memories and I still make these often. The thicker the beans get the better for me. I call that thick juice gravy. And I still make my Mom's red tomato relish to go on top of the beans.

I have never had soup beans! Now thanks to you, it’s a must try! ❤️

In middle Tennessee we always said “look” the beans when making our weekly pinto beans. I thought it was just our family’s country slang. It really brings a big smile to my face to hear your talking in your video. You talk just like we grew up talking. ♥️♥️♥️

Here in Wisconsin, we use bean & ham with onion & carrots. We call it bean soup. It's awesome.

I’m an Okie but we always had plenty of beans, potatoes, cornbread, green onions, sometimes gravy and always iced tea. I would love to sit down and have a plate full of this great meal and of course a big glass of iced tea. Thank you for your great videos!

I wasn’t raised anywhere near Appalachia but we had soup pinto beans several times a week. It is an economical meal when raising a large family. We lived it when mom would fry potatoes to go along with it. Dad liked to add caramelized onions and hot peppers on his plate of beans. I like corn bread with mine. I’m sure mom cooked a pound at a time all her life. When is kids were grown she froze the beans in small portions for her and dad.

Matt is so sweet of course he has skills any man that can help with cleaning up after the meal doing dishes or taking out the trash and can hunt ramps and fry taters is a keeper 😊👍

I grew up in Texas eating that. In fact we ate a lot of what y’all eat!!!! Glad I didn’t have to change my way if eating when we moved here to the mountains. Might have a little bad weather coming y’all stay safe. We need the rain 🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸 thanks again for sharing y’all’s life!!!!

Loved this episode. My mommy always used navy beans and we ate it like soup. She also added onion. We would butter our cornbread and use honey from a local bee keeper. Local is like no other. When my grandmother made lettuce she always added sugar and vinegar. She would cut up the pork and put it in the lettuce. So fun to see how families do recipes differently. You make me miss all the jars of goodness that my granfdmothers and mom put up.❤️

I grew up in Oklahoma eating beans & cornbread. It was always pinto beans. Her meal is exactly what I ate growing up. We had sticky taters or German fried taters made with yellow or white onion. The only term different was “romps”. We had a wilted salad similar to her kilt lettuce. We often added sliced tomatoes to the meal. Sometimes fried green tomatoes. My daddy would pour bean juice over chocolate cake for dessert. Could our family have carried this meal from generations past from Appalachia? Not sure. And tradition came from both sides of my family. Now I am hungry for that fine meal I have not had in ages.

I do like to put mayo on my bread topped with northern beans and some raw onions. My mom made drip salad 🥗 Watching you cook brings back good childhood memories. 😊 My sister would make rice with the beans. I'm like nope nope, gotta have fried smothered taters 😊

We grew up eating pinto beans. They were always a staple at our house. My Grandmother cooked a fresh pot every day. She had a lot of people to feed. We usually had fried potatoes with them. We ate very little meat except when Grandpa would kill one of his hogs. I was raised in East Tennessee. Love your videos.

We had lots of soup beans. My daddy used great northern beans. We always had sliced onions with ours. My grandma made wilted lettuce. She put a little sugar and vinegar in hers. Love watching your cooking videos

One of the most remarkable days of my life, was visiting a friend in NC, we spend the day with his Grandma Happy, who made us beans and gravy and corn bread, and entertained us for hours telling stories of her younger days and life in the good ol days.

I grew up in central Kentucky. Mom cooked soup beans and cornbread about every day. I 0:07 remember telling her when I grew up that I was never eating another bowl of soup beans, and I didn't for a very long time. I have tried to make cornbread like my momma but just cant get it to come out right.

When I was growing up we'd blanch baby spinach from the garden with the hot pork fat (and sometimes we'd add a little vinegar to make a vinaigrette with the fat and maybe we'd even add some sliced hard boiled eggs). I never thought to do it with lettuce, but I'll try now.

My mother was born on an Oklahoma farm in 1919. I grew up on her mama's recipe for soup beans. She only added salt, pepper, oil, and an hour into cooking, torn up tomatoes, and lots of onions. She always cooked one of 3 greens...cabbage, turnip greens, or collards. With the cornbread...a feast! I am 75 and still cook them, and my son comes over and we dig in! A great breakfast...beans on toast. The pot liquor softens the bread...delicious.

You've taken me back to my Grandma's kitchen table. This. This is where my love of cooking started. I've explored the world in my kitchen through trying foods from all over the globe, but this meal is the one my Appalachian soul longs for. There's something so special about that first salad of wilted lettuce and spring onions after a long winter. My grandad always grew bib lettuce, but otherwise this is the same meal I grew up loving. Thank you so much for sharing!

Greetings from Wilkes county. Yes, I grew up eating fried potatoes, cornbread, pintos, and lettuce and onions too. You guys always make me hungry, and I love the way everyone helps you clean up. God bless your sweet family.

I love learning about your cooking! In California my husband makes retried beans with salt pork and a big pan of enchiladas. The pinto beans are all creamed and smooth. Refried, the Hispanic way.

Our mouths are watering! We don't eat this as often as we'd like to but THIS is a feast fit for a KING! We ❤️ soup beans,fried taters, cornbread & all the fixins! In the summer we have a plate full of garden maters. I ❤️this meal! Love from IN.

My goodness gracious that looks good! I ain't seen a meal like this since my Grammaw passed away. Thank you so much for showing us how you do it and for bringing us all together once again. The world needs more of this kind of content.

Thanks so much for creating this channel. This is the cooking I grew up with in the rural mountains of Warren county, Tn in a little community called Irving College. My mama and Mema are now gone and although I still cook these things for my family, I enjoy watching you and yours cook and talk about cooking these wonderful Appalachian folk staples! Sometimes, as I watch, I’ll realize that I have tears of nostalgia rolling down my cheeks. I guess at the same time it makes me remember and miss those wonderful times back home. Thanks so much for what you do. I means so much to folks like me. God bless!

Interesting to see how people eat different things around our country. I grew up in New England and the Midwest and we ate a lot of mashed potatoes and meat. My dad, who grew up in Boston during the Great Depression, ate a lot of Boston Baked Beans that the mothers in the neighborhood cooked. One would cook a large amount of beans, another make lots of bread, etc. and the families would share amongst themselves. That way each mother had to prepare only one dish for dinner. He talks about how when the beans got reheated many times and became thick, they would make a sandwich out of them with a little ketchup. If you are hungry enough you will enjoy whatever is set before you. He is 93 now and still eats his beans with ketchup.

I grew up in Indiana but We ate very Appalachia. All my people are from around the mountains of ky.Tn. Watching and listening to you as you cook brings back the days of wood stoves, fireplace cracking and popping in the background and the smell of fresh perked coffee in the air. You are a true treasure God Bless

OMG, thank you for this! Even though I was born and raised in NE Ohio, my folks were from southern Kentucky and my mother made soup beans on a regular basis. And always extra cornbread so that she and my dad could enjoy a glass of crumbled up cornbread and buttermilk later(actually that always made me gag, still does.) I did enjoy the beans and all the fixings but haven't had them in well over 50 years. Thank you again for the great memory!

It’s a beautiful meal and very humble, especially watching you gather part of your food from your garden, definitely an inspiring way of growing our own food wether it be a little or a lot it makes a person feel good to do that. Thank you for being so kind to share your meal with us! GOD bless!

Grew up in central Kentucky, it's been a long time but I would swear we had soup beans every day along with whatever else happened to be available. We called the lettuce wilted lettuce and, if memory serves me right, put a little vinegar in along with the hot grease. All cooked on a wood stove, of course! Looks so delicious. All the women who cooked those meals for me are long gone. Such wonderful memories. How foolish we were - we thought we were poor. We had family members who had moved up to Louisville or New Albany who would visit when they could for that "good eating"!

The beans and cornbread remind me of a dish my husband makes, chili pancakes, also I said this on your kilt salad video that it reminds me of traditional warm spinach salad. Your recipes are so amazing. I’m gonna make my husband this for dinner, this right in his “wheel house” as he would put it. Love from Northern California ❤️

We call it wilted lettuce. We use lettuce, bacon, onion and radishes. Bacon grease and a little vinegar. So good! You have a wonderful meal there!

My family emigrated to Southern Ohio from Eastern Kentucky and brought their Appalachian food ways with them. We ate a lot of soup beans growing up, usually with ham or salt pork in them. We had fried potatoes with them a lot of times, too. So delicious. My mother made cornbread every day, so we always had that with our soup beans. In fact, we always refer to that meal as soup beans and cornbread. We do something similar to kilt lettuce, but we call it wilted lettuce. We pour hot bacon grease mixed with vinegar over ours plus a tiny bit of sugar. It's delicious. Onions were a requirement for this meal at our house, too. A nice sliced tomato was awesome with it in summer as well. When I went to college, northern students didn't know what I was referring to when I mentioned soup beans and cornbread. They thought I was saying bean soup, which they saw only as navy bean soup. I had to educate them that bean soup and soup beans were not the same thing. All kinds of education goes on at college!!! LOL! Thanks for sharing this recipe. It brought back a lot of fond memories.

Favorite cold weather meal. I love the 15 bean soup mix. Throw them in the crock pot in the morning and by supper you are ready to go. Working from home it was so cozy to hear them bubbling on a snowy day. Chow chow and hoe cakes or cornbread are a must! Beans and tatters! Tatters and beans! Best meal you’ve ever seen!😋

Your video has certainly brought back a lot of great memories from when I was a child. My parents are gone and my wife is disabled so if I want this type of good eating I have to make it. (Looks like I know what’s for dinner this weekend. God bless and thank you.

When times were hard in my family we ate a lot of corn bread and soup beans. I decided when I grew up I would never eat them again.😁 . I'm craving them right now! And the kilt lettuce!

Thank you for all the wonderful, rich history you put in each video. My grandmother was from Arkansas, and she made the best soup beans, and she called it wilted salad. You bring back such sweet memories. I sure am glad I found your channel.

I think it’s so funny that me and my husband have eaten soup beans all our lives, but never tire of them. I love cottage cheese with my soup beans and of course onion and cornbread. We called the lettuce “scalded lettuce and used vinegar and sugar with the grease to make the dressing. So good! I could have just sat down and ate with you all. 😊

What a delicious meal😋. I grew up eating this and still do to this day. The crispy edges of the cobbler are the best 😊. I love that not only does Matt help cook but helps do dishes too, you are lucky to have each other🥰

Delicious! My granny would do the kilt lettuce with ham drippings. She and Granddaddy loved salt pork (Grandaddy called it “sawmill ham”). So nice to be reminded of them both and the wonderful times we had every summer when school was out and we would visit. They lived in Arkansas, but my Great grandmother was 1/2 Cherokee Indian. Granny used a lot of words that you use, Tipper, a lot of sayings and cooked a great deal as you do, also.

Matt sure knows how to make a beautiful plate of food. 😁 And him doing the dishes shows his appreciation of you and your cooking. Love you guys from South Georgia

My grandma usually made a pot of beans with ham hocks, and they were always delish. Her corn bread was always fabulous, too. Loved your video. Thank you.

I'm from Massachusetts. I gotta say that's some of the most unique cooking I've seen. And I cook Japanese food! Never woulda thought about bacon grease with scallions and lettuce. I do love beans and cornbread. Moved to TN, best decision of my life.

Fresh sliced cantaloupe, garden tomatoes and cucumbers sliced up with a little onion in vinegar. Perfect meal that we had almost every night growing up. Love your videos!

Ate a lot of beans, taters, and cornbread growing up! Love them still today. Really like the end where everyone is being silly. Y'all are a riot! 🤣

Growing up in my Mother’s Mexican home, her 11 children loved it when she made a simple pot of pinto beans. We just ate a bowl full topped with raw onions and pico along with buttered homemade tortillas. I sure miss those sweet times.

My dad was raised in a little coal mining town on the Ohio, West Virginia border, he was born in 1935. He had 3 brothers (he was the baby) 🤗 my grandpa was a coal miner, they were raised up on soup beans, however they made theirs with great northern beans. He loved that meal till the day he passed in 2018. I make soup beans for my family till this day. ☺️ #tradition.

When soaking my beans. I add a pinch of baking soda to them. This will eliminate some of the gassy after effects.

This video warms my heart. My mom grew up on a farm in East Tennessee and they ate pinto beans with onions and cornbread most nights. My mom made it for me growing up and it is my most favorite comfort food. Thanks so much for reviving the memories. 💚