Keeper of Kitchen Wisdom
You Do WHAT to Your Cake Pan?
Do this simple trick for 30 minutes and your cake will slide clean out the pan. No non-stick sprays necessary. Learn the trick here.
Back to The Clean Issue
A sacred space where the recipes, remedies, and wisdom of our elders are preserved forever. Here, we honor the hands that stirred the pots, the voices that told the stories, and the love that built our homes.
Wisdom in Short Clips
Quick video advice from our elders on keeping a clean home, inside and out.
Aunt Debi
The Freezer Trick for a Clean Cake
Grandpa Duck
A Good Man Keeps His Word
The Elder Corner Archive
Wisdom worth keeping. Revisit the clips our elders shared in past issues, preserved here for good.
Keeper of Kitchen Wisdom
How I Make My Baked Beans
The question everybody asks at the cookout — here's how those baked beans come together.
Keeper of Kitchen Wisdom
Mix It Up: Cooking Different Greens Together
Mustard, collard, and turnip greens all in one pot — the collards are tougher, so I let them go a little longer in the pressure cooker until every leaf is tender.
The Historian
Cooking with Spirits
Even though Grandmama did not imbibe, her teetotaling ways did not extend to the kitchen — especially with Kentucky Butter Cake.
Keeper of the Garden
Keeping Flowers From Wilting in the Heat
Her summer secret for keeping the porch flowers full and blooming, even when the heat sets in.