{"id":834,"date":"2014-05-01T22:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galleychef.org\/?p=834"},"modified":"2019-10-09T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:00:05","slug":"great-grandmas-chicken-and-noodles-over-mashed-potatoes-and-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galleychef.org\/index.php\/great-grandmas-chicken-and-noodles-over-mashed-potatoes-and-gravy\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAT GRANDMA\u2019S CHICKEN AND NOODLES OVER MASHED POTATOES AND GRAVY"},"content":{"rendered":"

With double carbs (triple if you have bread with it to sop up the gravy) this is a heavy dish, but the farm hands needed all those carbs for energy way back when\u2026\u2026 Great Grandma, Iretha Hunter, grew up on the nationally recognized historic farm in Carrol, Ohio known as Rock Mill.<\/p>\n

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As summer came to an end all those years ago, and the wheat crops turned the hill sides their golden hue, a crew of men who operated the threshers (a device that separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, then separates the kernel from the rest of the head) would show up at Rock Mill to help with the harvest. There would have to be a mighty sizeable meal put out to stave off those hungry appetites.\u00a0 So\u2026. with a hen house full of chickens and\u00a0 plenty\u00a0 of flour from the mill, Great Grandma\u2019s homemade\u00a0chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes and gravy<\/strong>\u00a0was born.<\/p>\n