Grandmas Wisdom

[megray]

Do you have any tips passed on from your grandma or mum that you always follow?

Any funny things that you do just because they did?

[jjoj]

My grandma used to add coffee to her dark gravy. It gave it such a wonderful, rich flavor.

[sweetnell3]

My grandmother always added a pinch of sugar to her stews.

[barbszy]

My granma made wonderful rolls and scones. I never did find out how to make her walnut cookies :( but I can "almost" duplicate the rolls and scones. She never measured a THING and everything always came out exactly the same!!

Her biggest hint to me was, "Don't bake with butter. It's too extravagant." LOL! That meant "it's expensive!"

[Janet]

My Grandmother taught me how to get the right temperature of the water to dissolve yeast in...not using a themometer...but by using your fingers..I spent a few hours one afternoon..learning the temp by my fingers..now I pass that one to others..that have trouble making baked goods with yeast. ...

I think of my Grandmother, every time I make bread..

Janet

[cat lover]

My Grandma was a great cook. Every saturday morning she would either bake a cake or make a pie. I remember the kitchen smelling so good. She had bought little cake pans and pie pans for me as a child and I always got my own dough to make my own pies or to share the batter from a cake. I think of her every time I even eat a piece of pie or cake!:)

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Such a good topic! My Nana (paternal grandmother) taught me how to make cookies, stew, and expecially stuffing for turkey. She was wonderful as she always had Coca-Cola in green bottles, Welches Grape Juice, and home made cookies in the cookie jar for us GKs. I learned how important eating rituals are important to children.

[barbszy]

DeBora, my maternal grandmother taught me to make turkey stuffing. I remember as a kid, she'd have the slices of bread all over the kitchen table on towels, to let them get stale. She'd let us kids help her break them up to the right size. When I was a grad student and couldn't get home for Thanksgiving, she wrote to me and sent her stuffing recipe so I could cook turkey for the dinner my roommates and I were making.
I still have the recipe, in her handwriting. A good friend of mine laminated it for me, and I really treasure it.

[cat lover]

I too saved a recipe in my Grandma's handwriting! It makes a wonderful picture hanging in my kitchen. Years ago when we first lived out of our hometown, Mee-Mee (that is what I called her) sent me a handwritten letter with a recipe in it for her sugar cookies. It is so funny to read now as she also had sent me money to buy some butter with for the recipe and it was $1.22 a pound! That tells the age of the letter! LOL That is probably my most treasured "picture" besides a crochet piece she made I had framed!

So if any of you have that "treasured handwritten recipe" frame it now so you don't lose it; it makes a wonderful family treasure!:)

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Barb, that is such a wonderful memory!

My maternal grandmother made dressing and my paternal grandmother made dressing. My paternal grandmother never used a recipe. Even though I cook like her in that I can eyeball everything, I am trying to measure everything so that they can be written down for my grandkids. I doubt the up and coming granmothers will have many things in their writing. However, if you know her password, you'll have her recipes! :D