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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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.
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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.
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Persimmon pudding. I learned the hard way not to raid her tree before they were fully ripe, though. 😝
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fried okra
squash patties
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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
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Do you have a recipe for this bad boy Chocolate Cake?
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.
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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!! 😛
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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
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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! 😛
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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
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Yep, looked just like this….only 3 layers taller.
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/1JJI3BMAISD9/image.png
All this cake talk is making me mighty hungry for a big slice with some coffee! 😛
It's just a pity we all don't live by each other and have a nice Unbirthday party 🎉🎂
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Take out
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mom and dad would herd me and my brother into the living room to hug her and say hi to grampa, where she would open a glass chicken on the mantle that had orange circus peanuts in it that were so hard you could barely bite into them. Then we were told to go outside and play. I never saw any more of the house than the front room. granny allways had a funny smell about her, looking back now I think it had something to do with the still in the back of the chicken coop, the only building us boys were not supposed to play around. but boys will be boys, They actually used a montgomery wards catalogue in the outhouse also. we used to give the peanuts to a blind pony the neighbor had, that grampa allways told us was ours. We did this at least once a month till her passing...... still can't eat one of those dang circus peanuts to this day
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Beans and cornbread.
Every time we visited, she'd make both so we had something to eat after traveling.
Makes me smile every time I think about it.
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It seems to me that with those multi-layer cakes, what you're actually getting is a boatload of icing. That has zero appeal to me, but if it turns your insulin crank, okay.
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Cake without icing is just bread,,,
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Mamaws homemade chocolate chip cookie.. I still have her old cookie jar
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The icing is thin and somewhat runny when applied to the cake. It does not build up very thick. I have seen some folks go as high as 13 layers.
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Dried out turkey and stale cookies lol. My grandma, bless her heart, would prepare the Thanksgiving turkey a couple of days before Thanksgiving to get a head start, then on Thanksgiving she would warm it up in the oven. It was less than palatable. She would also make a huge supply cookies and freeze them for when the grandkids would visit. 2 or 3 years in the freezer did not make them better.
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More than the foods were the smells😃
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