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Verna Sizemore was raised up a holler above Hazard, Kentucky, in a house where the hens were the only money a woman had of her own. In this one she counts down 45 Appalachian egg tricks — the boiling, the peeling, the keeping, the dressing-up, and the putting-by — and she finally turns loose the one she's held back for fifty years: the eight seconds she gives that pot before the eggs ever touch cold water, and why every shell comes off in two pieces.

In this one, Verna covers:
Why a fresh-laid egg will not peel, and why that was never your fault
Telling an egg's age in a bowl of water — sinker, stander, floater
Killing the fire the minute it boils, and letting the pot do the rest
What that gray-green ring around the yolk is actually telling you
Reading a custard with a table knife instead of a clock
Onion-skin dyed eggs, the way it was done before the store kits
Egg gravy over a split biscuit, from the nights there wasn't any meat
How her people kept eggs through a winter — and why Verna won't tell you to do it now
And the fifty-year secret she saved for last

Did the women in your family have egg money? Tell Verna who taught you the old ways — a mama, a mamaw, some neighbor woman — down in the comments.