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What food reminds you of your Grandmother
Oakie
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For me, it will always be two things. Chickn' and biscuit crackers, and Pecan Sandies cookies. My parents ran two businesses , so me and my sister lived with my Grandmother from about 2 years old, till we were teenagers. She only lived a few blocks from our house. Everything was home made. From her pasta, to her gravy, or what you non Italians call spaghetti sauce. What reminds you, from your grandmothers kitchen????
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Her cornbread and hand churned buttermilk.
My grandmother baked bread every morning.
Granny made homemade perogies,cabbage rolls ,garlic pickles,but to watch on the holiday to take a pumpkin and turn it in to pie😱😁
Gooseberry cobbler and homemade raisin bread!
plus she lubed her Singer sewer with 3in 1 oil.
Pan fried sunfish, flour and fried in butter
Both of my grandmothers were not known for their culinary expertise!! My Mother told me one time that if someone would take away her mothers frying pan she couldn't cook a meal!!😁 Although she could bake a good pie!
My other grandmother didn't cook. Unless you want to call opening a can of Campbells soup cooking.
The plus side of my two grandmothers cooking was neither of my grandfathers had a problem with being overweight!!😂
Having never eaten my grandmother, I can't say with any certainty.
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Jim, My wife makes the best cornbread!!!!!!!!!!!! My wife is the best cook I ever met. Being Amish, that is all she loves to do. Everything from scratch. Everybody says she should open a restaurant. Every night, we have a big meal with home made desserts. No wonder I am fat. LOL. But I am going to die a happy man
Oh, I forgot her cathead biscuits! They came out perfect every time, from a wood fired cook stove.
She also made a pecan pie but instead of pecans, she used butternut hickory nuts.
My Paternal Grandmother was a wiz in the kitchen. Holidays always including Turkey which was always excellent. It was the Turkey and noodles or Turkey pot pie in the next few days that we all really loved to have !
My Maternal Grandmother used to fry everything in a big old skillet with Crisco. Her fried chicken or Steak was as good as it gets !!!
Dad's side: Lutefisk, lefse, head cheese, pickled pigs' feet, pickled herring.
Mom's side: fried chicken. Farm folk. Watching my twin uncles kill chickens was a little like Laurel & Hardy, they were born with poor vision.....
Cornish Pasties.
She was born in Stuttgart Germany. I remember the "different" meals she served! I did like one of her soups however.
Let me guess. Cabbage soup?
Pig feet simmering in big pot of sgetti sauce.
Any real Italian dish.
Cinnamon rolls. My gosh but granny made a good cinnamon roll!
My grandmother’s pumpkin pie was always the best! All others are compared to hers and few come close.
On my wife’s side, her grandmother was a Russian immigrant and her pelminies were always a hit.
Potatoe soup
My grandmother on dads side died before I was born
My mom's mom I knew for years but she lived with us when i was a young fellow than later in on with a uncle and his family so nothing really come to mind she cooked that stood out
Fried chicken and fried fish! Used to have those fresh......for breakfast! Of course she had cat head biscuits, eggs, grits, gravy, and sometimes cornbread.
Used to wake up around daylight to find her almost done cooking(she prob been up 3 hours already). I would go with her to the chicken pen and she would grab a rooster, kill it, clean it, butcher it, and cook it.
Oh my!! Those were the days! BIG breakfast, good lunch, and tiny supper. People used to eat that way.....the correct way. Now we do it backwards and everyone is overweight. Whop biscuits and fake everything, plus we skip breakfast, big lunch, then HUGE supper(right before bed time). SMH
Her oven toasted sweet and salty pecans . She also fried the best fish .
Bread pudding and gooseberry pie.
Leg-O-Lamb with garlic pressed into it. Desert would be Tapioca Pudding or pumpkin pie. Oh, & Rum Balls.
My fondest memories are that of the holidays... There was always room for everyone. Gramma made the best Chocolate ice box cake.
They have been gone awhile now. But not forgotten.
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Do you have a recipe for this bad boy Chocolate Cake?
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Beef pot pie, the Pennsylvania Dutch kind (bot boi) large 2" square "noodles" with taters and carrots. I only had one grand parent and she was the best. She was a tough ol' broad, raised six kids on her own. Husband was a brakeman and got run over by a danged ol' train. She cheated death until I came home on leave----------------------Dammit.
I can go as far back as my great Grandmother on my moms side for many of her cooking specialties. She passed in '64 at the age of 86.
She won awards from our then governor for her butter. They were dairy farmers. She would make what my brothers and I called "Stink'n Bread", which was actually Salt Rising Bread. Stuff had this smell of dirty feet and socks, but if you had the gumption to actually try it, OH BOY!! It just melted in your mouth with a taste and flavor like no other bread I've ever had! Topped with her own home churned butter of coarse!
Her daughter (my grandma) made many unforgettable dishes but one that stands out the most after all these years is her Rice Pudding. Made in a large roasting pan out of homemade custard, rice, and raisons topped with cinnamon. It was just unforgettably delicious! She also always saved up the bacon grease in a 3 pound coffee can under the sink and used it for many things that we now use Crisco for. Baking with that and real LARD sure tasted better, even if you follow todays taboo feelings of unhealthy eating.
Dill pickles.....pickled okra.....pickled garlic. She was an amazing canner.
I never knew my fraternal Grandma, and my Mom's Mom died quite a while back. We only visited her once a year or less, besides. I can only vaguely remember her cooking on a giant wood stove in a house that was built when Benjamin Franklin was still alive. It was a New Jersey dairy farm when I was that young, and my sole definite memory is of fresh, warm raw milk right from a Jersey cow. Sometimes, squirted right from the teat to my mouth! I learned milking as "One, two, three for the bucket and one for the cat. Then one to three in the bucket and one for me."
Those grandparents came over from Czechoslovakia, and thus my Mom's pastries were masterful, she having learned that art at Gram's knee. No cream puff has ever compared, nor her dumplings.
At holiday time she made a warn vanilla custard that we spooned over fresh yellow cake and topped it with coconut. I have tried to make the recipe many times and had no luck.
Persimmon pudding. I learned the hard way not to raid her tree before they were fully ripe, though. 😝
fried okra
squash patties
My maternal grandmother was a so-so cook, My mother didn't pay enough attention to what she was cooking and more often than not it would wind up burnt.
My paternal grandmother was born in Hungary and was a great cook. I loved her homemade struetle.
But I would have to rate my wife as the best cook of the 3.
And no she is not looking over my shoulder.
Joe
I’ll check with my Dad and post for you if I can. I’m sure he must have it. One of the keys, as I recall, was the ultra-thin layers (maybe about 1/4 inch each). That, and a whole lot of butter! 😁 I used to love to have a slice out of the freezer. It would get cold and a little firm, but would never actually freeze.
I had always loved my granny's chocolate pie with whipped cream topping. You'd be FULL after just one slice.
After getting married, my wife clued me into why............
She informed me that my grandmother used FOUR TIMES the amount of chocolate that a normal recipe called for.
Still..........Mmmmmmmmm........good stuff!! 😛
Frogdog i suck at posting links . Google 9 layer chocolate cake recipes . A link to Southern Living Magazine will pop up . Their recipe is the old time cake with cooked icing
Yep, looked just like this….only 3 layers taller.
All this cake talk is making me mighty hungry for a big slice with some coffee! 😛
paternal grandma made the best tea biscuits, reciepe died with her, didn't like my mom so she wouldn't give up the reciepe to her
It's just a pity we all don't live by each other and have a nice Unbirthday party 🎉🎂
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