Any other pot liquor drinkers here?

[fiasconva]

My wife and I just finished cooking two big pots of collards for the early family Thanksgiving dinner next weekend. We'll sample a few for supper tonight and freeze the rest for next weekend. I always help myself to a couple of cups of the pot liquor as soon as they are done. It brings back memories of watching my grandmother crumble up some fresh cornbread in her cup as she relished hers. Anyone else ever do this or remember doing it? I love me some pot liquor!

 

[lkabug]

Cornbread and collard juice, as we called it as kids back in West Virginia. Good stuff.

 

[walkin jack]

thanks for for this thread!! I love the stuff. Haven't had it in years. I might just have to remedy that.

 

[mick1213]

I love it. Pot likker was debated in the Senate. Liquor or likker, dunked or crumbled cornbread. The Kingfish of Louisiana (aka Huey Long )fillibustered the making and merits of it.

 

[JET4]

Great stuff, love it

 

[bigmtnman]

My dad never let the "pot liquor" go to waste when mom cooked a pork butt with sauerkraut. Dad was raised in a Kentucky orphanage during the depression. I'm sure he got his "pot liquor" start with collard greens and just carried it over to the German heritage he married into

 

[tnmandpshooter]

We put corn bread in butter milk and pinto beans but I don't recall ever having it in collard greens

Sent from my SM-A515U using Tapatalk

 

[ACORN]

My dad never let the "pot liquor" go to waste when mom cooked a pork butt with sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut, with pork roast, sausage and kielbasa cooked in it. Love it.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Well, I've never heard of it, but my curiosity got the better of me reading the title of your post!
I DO know if we ever had it growing up, I never heard it called that. And, I DO know there was NO food wasted in our house, or anything else that was useful.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I really like collards, and the season opened here this morning because of the big white frost that we had. They are much better after a good hard frost. I like the pot likker also, with cornbread.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Marshwheeling]

So how about gribenes?

 

[djohns6]

So how about gribenes?

Completely different thing .

 

[CajunBass]

I pray the Lord never let's me get that hungry. I'm country, but I ain't THAT country.

 

[Golddollar]

Sauerkraut, with pork roast, sausage and kielbasa cooked in it. Love it.

I gave this a like because it sounds so good, but what kind of sodium concentration are we talking about? I don't think my cardiologist would be happy with me drinking this.

 

[oink]

We eat greens fairly often, collards, kale, mustard, turnip, we like them all. We use a good bit of the "liquor" for adding to other stock. I do enjoy a cup and with unsweetened corn bread it's even better. However, I won't drink too much of it at a time as it's my understanding it not a good idea if you tend to grow stones.

 

[Rustyt1953]

When we hit these shores dad taught mom how to make greens with salt pork. I grew to like it and the likker in the bottom of the bowl was to float cornbread or biscuits in.

Dad always put vinegar on his greens (and fried potatoes). I tried it and liked it but the last few decades I have swapped the vinegar for hot sauce.

It all good.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I pray the Lord never let's me get that hungry. I'm country, but I ain't THAT country.

Pray that God allows you a chance to drink it! It's that good!! Have not had it in years as the wife don't like to cook greens. When Miss Lill was still alive and cooking, if you ordered greens and she liked you, she would give you a cup of likker if you asked.

 

[ACORN]

I gave this a like because it sounds so good, but what kind of sodium concentration are we talking about? I don't think my cardiologist would be happy with me drinking this.

If you don't know it doesn't have any!

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

I usually have to cook my own greens as the wife claims they stink cooking. I start the year with that good ole Southern standby, poke,
followed by several others, beet, Swiss chard, turnip and I don't grow
collards but I do like them. I have been advised that my aging kidneys
should not be subjected to some of these due to their high potassium
content.
Like Rusty's dad I like some apple cider vinegar on my greens. Due to
my type 2 diabetes I have cut corn/corn products from my diet. My wife
makes a coconut/almond flour corn bread substitute that is not bad. Served hot it works well, also in milk/butter milk. I can make a meal of
this and many times I do, along with some pinto beans.

 

[jbtrucker]

I like black eye peas and pot licker on cornbread. My dad would eat greens , was all he had during the depression.