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Mr. Wiggles posted:
 : Holy poo poo, these are made in Norway and Denmark! They're called "boneless birds", often there's a strip of lard or bacon in the middle too.
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Sep 23, 2014 21:29
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This thread is making me want to go find my grandmother's copy of Miss Manners which she heavily annotated by hand with her own personal preferences, grievances, and mistakes.
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Sep 24, 2014 06:30
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Is there a mock chicken recipe?
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Sep 24, 2014 12:29
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Sorry I've been out of the thread for a bit - soccer season has been amazingly busy. While there is no mock chicken recipe, that made me think of the "mock chicken" I've eaten at Buddhist Chinese joints, which made me think of my Grandma's Chinese food. We made lemon chicken the other day. Will post photos tonight or tomorrow.
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Oct 21, 2014 17:57
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So here's the thing I we made the other day. For some reason I can't get a good photo of the recipe page through the plastic sheet covering the paper, so I'll type it out:quote:Chicken with lemon sauce This recipe is actually really good. We've modified it a bit over the years, though, and now what we like to do is marinate whole pieces of chicken and bake them in the oven (as nice as fried pieces of cracker coated chicken can be). It's really about the sauce, anyway, which is very sweet but not cloying. This is super Americanized "Chinese" food, but for a rural lady in the 50s and 60s I'd say she was doing really well. Not only was Grandma's heart in the right place, the recipe stands up on it's own merits. In this utterly awful cellphone photo, the chicken is served with rice and quickly sauteed green beans in shaoxing wine and soy with garlic and chile. 
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Oct 23, 2014 17:02
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There's some regional Chinese cuisines that use craploads of sugar and honey, Shanghainese in particular, so this recipe isn't all American for sure.
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Oct 23, 2014 18:25
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Hmmm, interesting. Well, it tastes pretty good!
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Oct 23, 2014 18:56
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Mr. Wiggles posted:This is super Americanized "Chinese" food, but for a rural lady in the 50s and 60s I'd say she was doing really well. Not only was Grandma's heart in the right place, the recipe stands up on it's own merits. In this utterly awful cellphone photo, the chicken is served with rice and quickly sauteed green beans in shaoxing wine and soy with garlic and chile. That's super adventurous for her! And it's a fun looking recipe, except in the sauce i'd probably try to find some replacement for the booze, as there are alcohol issues in my family. I have some Tonic syrup and juniper I could use...
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Oct 23, 2014 21:02
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I finally got some time to get over to my mom's house and go through my grandma's old recipe box. I had to sort through all the church cookbook poo poo and Campbell's recipes, and I pulled out the things I remember eating at her house. There weren't any recipes for any of her regular dishes though, which doesn't surprise me. So here are some basic cookie/pie recipes. The white bread, brown bread (the kind that you make in a can) and pecan pie would be my favorites. I remember my grandpa eating like 8 peanut butter or molasses cookies almost every day with a huge glass of milk. And she would make 3 loaves of white bread every loving day, half for lunches and half for dinner. Cinnamon roll recipe nowhere to be found but it's basically the same as the bread, just with cinnamon goop and rolled up into a pan.     
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Nov 16, 2014 17:20
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Haha, I didn't think anybody else did the "bread in cans" thing.
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Nov 16, 2014 18:47
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"Pumkin pie", I love it.
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Nov 17, 2014 16:38
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My grandmother is in need of constant company due to an increasing dose of dementia. My wife and I have moved in with our kids to what is now a four generation family home that had been pulled out of the woods to the current foundation by a horse team. I can't bring myself to replace her old stove with ours. The plan is to run it into the ground and then make the swap when necessary even if it does suck rear end for 12" skillets:  Now that the kitchen has been hauled out and ready for final zoning of our nice cookware, I can focus on that little recipe box and start digitizing and laminating the cards. Probably start with her steamed brown bread recipe and the baked bean recipe taped in a cupboard. Then on to crazy quilt bread. Also, she still has her old 6-cup Pyrex percolator and 
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Dec 6, 2014 20:21
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this is a good thread. more photos of index card recipes please! (and plz include your grandparent's region, it's important!)
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Dec 8, 2014 05:30
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 E: I'll get some cards lazily photographed later. But my grandmother was born in Nova Scotia during the depression and emigrated to North-Central New Hampshire with her father, sister, and aunt sometime before WWII. Butch Cassidy fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Dec 8, 2014 |
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Dec 8, 2014 06:29
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For anyone interested - I found a great mock chicken recipe I've been using this poo poo is off the hook delicious Equal Parts : Shredded/grated cheese (mozzarella works well) Diced onion Diced Tomato Butter One egg per tablespoon of ingredient (i.e. if you're using approx. 6 tablespoons each of onion, tomato, butter and cheese, 6 eggs) Fry all bar cheese and egg in the butter. Season heavily Add cheese once onion is translucent Add beaten eggs, season again. Add herbs. I find Bush Spices (it's an Aussie one made by McCormick, maybe available overseas? But it loving rules) Eat that sick filth. I threw some kewpie mayo and sriracha onto mine and it was fantastically addictive. I polished off 6 eggs' worth in a sitting
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Dec 8, 2014 10:13
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 E: Made the brown bread with an added ~1/2 cup of raisins tossed with the dry ingredients before adding milk and molasses to keep them from sinking. It's a pretty decent recipe, but I will work some spices into it next time and add some baking soda and sub buttermilk for at least some of the regular.  And the loaf filled a rectangular Pyrex baking dish that I nestled into a larger one with water and covered the thing with foil. My grandmother was happy when I offered her some bread from her own recipe. Just served it with the bean recipe from her cabinet which is plain, but tasty. I'll certainly use the bean recipe as a base and add some ginger and use brown sugar in place of white in the future. Butch Cassidy fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Dec 8, 2014 |
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Dec 8, 2014 15:48
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Butch Cassidy posted:
 You're supposed to use a can!
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Dec 9, 2014 14:14
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I was going to until I realized that my grandmother didn't gently caress around with small recipes, having raised five kids. My wife is now under order to save a few tins so the next go can be properly presented 
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Dec 9, 2014 15:33
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Noooooooooooo  The electric ignition to the range, oven, and broiler crapped out on the old Glenwood:  R.I.P. old guy. I'll need forget all the meals my grandmother cooked with you  Now to continue arguing with the gas company to take my god damned order despite the name on the account and send a rep to put my stove in. Because my grandmother is going to insist that she can fix it and refuse to order the service, herself 
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Dec 11, 2014 21:11
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Dec 11, 2014 21:21
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Woman who can't remember if she just fed the cat three times in the last hour let alone whether the oven is on or pumping gas. If I was on my own, I'd go the match route in the finest New England
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Dec 11, 2014 21:30
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Butch Cassidy posted:Noooooooooooo Dang man, that was less than a week ago when you talked about its inevitable demise. Don't buy a new one, fix it up!
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Dec 11, 2014 21:42
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The plan is to slip our range in there and tinker with the old wood paneled codger to get it to spark again as a spare. E: 
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Dec 11, 2014 21:55
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This is great, thank you for sharing your family's recipes. My farther in law has his mum's cook book and it's totally sacred to him, no one can see it but him! Dunno why I can't see it, it's in Norwegian and I can hardly speak a word. I cant wait for more updates on this thread.
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Dec 30, 2014 19:07
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Just wanted to say thank you for this thread. I have very few recipes from my family, my mom is a pretty good cook, but she doesn't use recipes, she just wings it.
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Dec 30, 2014 20:32
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For the OP, and everyone else taking pictures of old recipe cards or pages of typed text, Genius Scan will let you flatten, darken, increase the contrast, rotate, and otherwise clean up your cards. You can also change a color image to monochrome, for cheaper, faster reprinting. It'll also export as JPEG or PDF, and it's available for iOS and Android. (It's also phenomenal for receipts for travel or tax purposes.) Also; those cookies are godamned awesome. 
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