Treasures from My Momma!

[joegoda]

I stumbled onto some of my mother's 50+ recipe book. It was a little note book she wrote her recipes down in. Now, there's some great things there. Some cakes and something called a Pon Pusque, which is really a fried pie. Delicious crust, as I remember. But the most prevalent recipe is a recipe for Pickles. Bout 5 different types, and I think all from Cucumbers, which I don't like. So, if any of you cuke growers would like me to post 'em, I will. Otherwise, I'll just let them sit in the book.

OH! And a recipe for home made Kraut! That was kinda cool, cuz it's like Kim Chee, but not.

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[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Oh, how neat! When I was packing my dad's stuff up before he moved out to Denver, I found a whole envelope of my mom's hand-written recipes. I have them still even though I've recopied them into my cook book. Her sandies were the absolute bestest cookies ever and her frozen cranberry sauce the only one I like.

Those are things to treasure!

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Yes, Yes! And there is an absolute delightful recipe for mashed potato donuts. They are much lighter then ordinary yeast dough and melt in your mouth. As kids, one of our favorite jobs was to hold the brown grocery bag of granulated sugar, catch the donuts as they were pulled from the hot oil, then shake, shake, shake, Sonora, until they were covered. MMmmmmmm Good eatin, Maynard! It's a wonder that we don't weigh 300 pounds or more.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Yum....

[mstami.livejournal.com]

That is so wonderful. I hope you'll share some of your favorites?

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but I'd bet that if you asked me if I could find a recipe for... bavarian strawberry pie, I bet I could find it. You name it, I'll bet mom had a recipe for it. See, back long ago, when the world was cooling and banks still gave free toasters, Grocery stores would offer sections of cookbooks to folks. My mom got this great collection called 250 ways to... and there are thousands of recipes in it.

And, of course, her own little notebook. You make pickles, I got the recipe. Heck. Maybe I'll start a home business. Chet's Pickles.

[shackrlu.livejournal.com]

Chester Pocket's Pickles!

[mstami.livejournal.com]

hehehe..Great name. :)

[mstami.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful to find things like that. We have some of my grandma's things and they mean so much to us.

As for the recipes I do hope you will consider sharing some of the especially good ones. I'm sure you think they're all good, but you know what I mean. ;)

And yes, a wonderful place to start would be with the bavarian strawberry pie. That just sounds yummy! Just like something I'm not allowed to eat, but I really want to.