What food reminds you of your Grandmother
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.
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My grandmother baked bread every morning.
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Granny made homemade perogies,cabbage rolls ,garlic pickles,but to watch on the holiday to take a pumpkin and turn it in to pie😱😁
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Gooseberry cobbler and homemade raisin bread!
plus she lubed her Singer sewer with 3in 1 oil.
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Pan fried sunfish, flour and fried in butter
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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!!😂
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Having never eaten my grandmother, I can't say with any certainty.
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jimdeere: 30312895756059/comments/30312896288795
Her cornbread and hand churned buttermilk.
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
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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.
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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 !!!
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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.....
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Cornish Pasties.
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She was born in Stuttgart Germany. I remember the "different" meals she served! I did like one of her soups however.
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Let me guess. Cabbage soup?
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Pig feet simmering in big pot of sgetti sauce.
Any real Italian dish.
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jimdeere: 30312895756059/comments/30312896288795
Her cornbread and hand churned buttermilk.
Those, Pinto beans w/cornbread, Country Ham and Bisquits, big Ol' Taters and butter, Country Sausage Gravy and Bisquits, Hands down 1st thing I think of is the scratch made Blueberry pancakes she'd wake up about 5am every Sunday morning and cook on the wood fired cook stove. Hand churned Butter, w/homemade Maple syrup and a big dollop of Peanut Butter between each pancake. Blackberry Cobbler w/Vanilla Ice Cream on Top. OMG, I'm drooling/salivating on myself just now.
*Oh yeah, Home brewed Sweet Tea.
Like @jimdeere, anything Country, cooked on a wood fired stove. OMG, the many meals I enjoyed there. Miss those big time.
Opening the door of the "Root Cellar," to get Fresh Veggies. Glass jared Canned goods, Apple Butter. On and on and on. OMG........................................
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Cinnamon rolls. My gosh but granny made a good cinnamon roll!
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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.
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Potatoe soup
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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
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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
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Her oven toasted sweet and salty pecans . She also fried the best fish .
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Bread pudding and gooseberry pie.
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- ”Roast.” Not sure what the meat was, just that it was brown, sat in a pool of water, was darn near impossible to chew or swallow, and was on the table at every Sunday “dinner” (aka Lunch).
- Bologna…the thick kind with the red plastic ring around the outside. Granny would let us make the biggest, baddest sandwiches we could handle. They were the best!
- Chocolate cake. Granny’s 12-layer chocolate cake was famous. Took her days to make, but she made sure there was one on the table at every holiday/occasion.
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Leg-O-Lamb with garlic pressed into it. Desert would be Tapioca Pudding or pumpkin pie. Oh, & Rum Balls.
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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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Frogdog: 30312895756059/comments/30313020480411
- ”Roast.” Not sure what the meat was, just that it was brown, sat in a pool of water, was darn near impossible to chew or swallow, and was on the table at every Sunday “dinner” (aka Lunch).
- Bologna…the thick kind with the red plastic ring around the outside. Granny would let us make the biggest, baddest sandwiches we could handle. They were the best!
- Chocolate cake. Granny’s 12-layer chocolate cake was famous. Took her days to make, but she made sure there was one on the table at every holiday/occasion.
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.
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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.
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Dill pickles.....pickled okra.....pickled garlic. She was an amazing canner.
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