CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
My maternal grandmother was an amazing cook, made the most delicious Swedish meatballs and her baked goods...yum. My paternal grandmother made the most awful pot roast...but she did make a mean angelfood cake. Being the only granddaughter, I have both of their recipe files. My paternal grandmother's are all neatly typed on index cards, my maternal grandmother's are in a looseleaf binder, handwritten, with scraps of paper stuck between the pages. I've promised my cousins and their kids I'd scan the book and give them each a copy. Well, I also have this hairbrain idea to test the recipes. Her's one I don't understand and have NO IDEA what my grandmother was making when she made this (and, btw, when I find "hairdresser's" I'll be pinging DCers again):
2-1/2 T flour
1/2 c milk
(cook slowly to make a firm paste--cool).
In a small bowl:
1/2 c sugar
1/4 c Crisco
1/4 c butter
vanilla
Add paste 5 min on high speed.
What was she making?? No other instructions. Anyone?
Then we have:
1/2 white sugar
1/2 brown "
1/2 c cream
1/2 c butter
Caramel sauce
This one I can figure out re: how long to cook and the method. I gotta hand it to her--she obviously knew what she was doing--I cook much the same way. But, I haven't written anything down in code--yet.
I really like having the recipe files. I swear my maternal grandma's binder smells like her kitchen--still, 40 years later. Of the 1000+ cookbooks I have, this is the one that I keep on my bedside table so that I can grab it if the house catches on fire in the middle of the night and I must flee--this one, I treasure the most. I could survive without the other 999, but to lose this one, would break my heart.
2-1/2 T flour
1/2 c milk
(cook slowly to make a firm paste--cool).
In a small bowl:
1/2 c sugar
1/4 c Crisco
1/4 c butter
vanilla
Add paste 5 min on high speed.
What was she making?? No other instructions. Anyone?
Then we have:
1/2 white sugar
1/2 brown "
1/2 c cream
1/2 c butter
Caramel sauce
This one I can figure out re: how long to cook and the method. I gotta hand it to her--she obviously knew what she was doing--I cook much the same way. But, I haven't written anything down in code--yet.
I really like having the recipe files. I swear my maternal grandma's binder smells like her kitchen--still, 40 years later. Of the 1000+ cookbooks I have, this is the one that I keep on my bedside table so that I can grab it if the house catches on fire in the middle of the night and I must flee--this one, I treasure the most. I could survive without the other 999, but to lose this one, would break my heart.
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