Thread: Family Recipe Collections and Nostalgia

On Thu 22 May 2008 08:01:59p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...

> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>
> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
> close kith and kin.
>
> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
> my mother's handwriting.
>
> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
> fondly remembered relatives.
>
> --
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I can certainly identify with the feeling. Years before there were PCs, I
photocopied all my mother's and relative's recipes and recipe cards and put
the pages in vinyl page protectors in 3-ring binders. Somehow I amassed 4
3-inch ring binders of these. Most have never made it to my PC, since it's
easy to browse through the binders.

When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection and
a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I cherished
having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the box along
with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had the cards
and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a "real" image of
them.

One of these days I would like to enter them all into MasterCook, though,
just for ease of searching and use.


--
Wayne Boatwright
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On Thu 22 May 2008 08:01:59p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...

> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>
> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
> close kith and kin.
>
> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
> my mother's handwriting.
>
> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
> fondly remembered relatives.
>
> --
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I can certainly identify with the feeling. Years before there were PCs, I
photocopied all my mother's and relative's recipes and recipe cards and put
the pages in vinyl page protectors in 3-ring binders. Somehow I amassed 4
3-inch ring binders of these. Most have never made it to my PC, since it's
easy to browse through the binders.

When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection and
a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I cherished
having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the box along
with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had the cards
and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a "real" image of
them.

One of these days I would like to enter them all into MasterCook, though,
just for ease of searching and use.


--
Wayne Boatwright
-------------------------------------------
Thursday, 05(V)/22(XXII)/08(MMVIII)
-------------------------------------------
Today is: Feast of Corpus Christi
Countdown till Memorial Day
3dys 2hrs 1mins 52secs
-------------------------------------------
If Windows sucked, it would be good
for something!
-------------------------------------------

On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:01:59 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
>recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
>copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
>same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
>looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
>a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
>friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
>Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
>Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
>Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>
D has a notebook in the kitchen with a more modest collection of
family recipes. My favorite is the stained and faded recipe for
jailhouse chili, not to say that any of our forebears had the
opportunity to sample the original in situ.

>And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
>in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
>scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
>my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
>which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
>retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
>fondly remembered relatives.

It would be English pea salad around here.

Nice post, thanks.
--

modom
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On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:01:59 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
>recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
>copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
>same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
>looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
>a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
>friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
>Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
>Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
>Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>
D has a notebook in the kitchen with a more modest collection of
family recipes. My favorite is the stained and faded recipe for
jailhouse chili, not to say that any of our forebears had the
opportunity to sample the original in situ.

>And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
>in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
>scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
>my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
>which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
>retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
>fondly remembered relatives.

It would be English pea salad around here.

Nice post, thanks.
--

modom
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

On May 22, 8:01*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd <ntpull...@meatloaf.net> wrote:
> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* *I had mostly (I thought)
> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>
> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
> close kith and kin.
>
> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
> my mother's handwriting.
>
> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
> fondly remembered relatives.
>
> --
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> "Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"
>
> * * * * -- W.C. Fields

I have a lot of my grandma's recipes- it's a little eerie looking at
the ones she hand wrote. Among my favorites is her ravioli filling
recipe. It's kinda comforing to look thru them, ya know??

On May 22, 8:01*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd <ntpull...@meatloaf.net> wrote:
> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* *I had mostly (I thought)
> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>
> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
> close kith and kin.
>
> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
> my mother's handwriting.
>
> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
> fondly remembered relatives.
>
> --
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> "Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"
>
> * * * * -- W.C. Fields

I have a lot of my grandma's recipes- it's a little eerie looking at
the ones she hand wrote. Among my favorites is her ravioli filling
recipe. It's kinda comforing to look thru them, ya know??

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 22 May 2008 08:01:59p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...
>
>> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
>> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
>> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
>> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
>> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
>> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
>> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
>> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
>> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
>> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>>
>> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
>> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
>> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
>> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
>> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
>> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
>> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
>> close kith and kin.
>>
>> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
>> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
>> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
>> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
>> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
>> my mother's handwriting.
>>
>> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
>> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
>> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
>> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
>> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
>> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
>> fondly remembered relatives.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> I can certainly identify with the feeling. Years before there were PCs, I
> photocopied all my mother's and relative's recipes and recipe cards and put
> the pages in vinyl page protectors in 3-ring binders. Somehow I amassed 4
> 3-inch ring binders of these. Most have never made it to my PC, since it's
> easy to browse through the binders.
>
> When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection and
> a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I cherished
> having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the box along
> with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had the cards
> and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a "real" image of
> them.
>
> One of these days I would like to enter them all into MasterCook, though,
> just for ease of searching and use.
>
>
OMG! How painful that must have been--and still be. Yikes!!!!

--
Jean B.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 22 May 2008 08:01:59p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...
>
>> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
>> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
>> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
>> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
>> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
>> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
>> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
>> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
>> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
>> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>>
>> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
>> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
>> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
>> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
>> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
>> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
>> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
>> close kith and kin.
>>
>> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
>> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
>> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
>> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
>> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
>> my mother's handwriting.
>>
>> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
>> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
>> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
>> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
>> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
>> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
>> fondly remembered relatives.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> I can certainly identify with the feeling. Years before there were PCs, I
> photocopied all my mother's and relative's recipes and recipe cards and put
> the pages in vinyl page protectors in 3-ring binders. Somehow I amassed 4
> 3-inch ring binders of these. Most have never made it to my PC, since it's
> easy to browse through the binders.
>
> When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection and
> a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I cherished
> having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the box along
> with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had the cards
> and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a "real" image of
> them.
>
> One of these days I would like to enter them all into MasterCook, though,
> just for ease of searching and use.
>
>
OMG! How painful that must have been--and still be. Yikes!!!!

--
Jean B.

On Fri, 23 May 2008 05:04:31 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
<[email protected]> fired up random neurons and synapses
to opine:

>When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection and
>a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I cherished
>having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the box along
>with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had the cards
>and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a "real" image of
>them.
>
Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
(one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
worth a bunch.
--

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"

-- W.C. Fields

On Fri, 23 May 2008 05:04:31 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
<[email protected]> fired up random neurons and synapses
to opine:

>When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection and
>a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I cherished
>having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the box along
>with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had the cards
>and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a "real" image of
>them.
>
Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
(one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
worth a bunch.
--

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"

-- W.C. Fields

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>
> Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
> was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
> is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
> (one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
> box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
> from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
> can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
> that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
> worth a bunch.

But this is the food we ate as kids. And my only sibling
does not cook, so I deserve ownership of that folder.

Remind me to pick up mom's manila folder of recipes
before it's too late. It's a few inches thick of
recipes clipped out of magazines, beginning in 1948
when my parents were married.

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>
> Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
> was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
> is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
> (one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
> box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
> from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
> can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
> that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
> worth a bunch.

But this is the food we ate as kids. And my only sibling
does not cook, so I deserve ownership of that folder.

Remind me to pick up mom's manila folder of recipes
before it's too late. It's a few inches thick of
recipes clipped out of magazines, beginning in 1948
when my parents were married.

In article <[email protected]>,
Terry Pulliam Burd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
> was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
> is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
> (one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
> box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
> from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
> can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
> that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
> worth a bunch.

I'll support that. All of the boxed and canned stuff doesn't taste the
same as it did anyway. But I loved it in the fifties.
Fresh vegetables started with 'boil for a couple of hours'. But my mom
made some really tasty meals. I've duplicated all of them that I cared
about except her beef soup. I make very good beef soup, but it's not
hers. I miss her and hers. I do add a dash of this and a handful of
that, so I'm learning.

leo

In article <[email protected]>,
Terry Pulliam Burd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
> was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
> is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
> (one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
> box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
> from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
> can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
> that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
> worth a bunch.

I'll support that. All of the boxed and canned stuff doesn't taste the
same as it did anyway. But I loved it in the fifties.
Fresh vegetables started with 'boil for a couple of hours'. But my mom
made some really tasty meals. I've duplicated all of them that I cared
about except her beef soup. I make very good beef soup, but it's not
hers. I miss her and hers. I do add a dash of this and a handful of
that, so I'm learning.

leo

merryb wrote:
>
> I have a lot of my grandma's recipes- it's a little eerie looking at
> the ones she hand wrote. Among my favorites is her ravioli filling
> recipe. It's kinda comforing to look thru them, ya know??

And so what are you going to do? Are you going
to leave behind any recipes?

I'm not aware of any good recipes that my mom
created. I've created a few good ones and
lots of bad ones. I'm not aware of any recipes
inherited from previous genrations from my mom,
though she did some experimental variations
of the recipes she followed which were
educational on how to do food. The most I
learned from my mom about cooking was technique,
not recipes nor the handling of raw food materials.

I've got a number of great recipes. I've never
had fried squid better than what I can make.
Appealing to a larger audience, I've never had
better quesadillas than what I can make.

I've considered the possibility of faking
a family heritage of great recipes. These
would be great recipes that I've created, so
I know they work. Or maybe I just tested
other recipes of various non-obvious origins,
all rolled together into a book. And maybe
a few of my mom's recipes which aren't too bad,
and slightly altered, if you don't mind
sliced hot dogs as the meat in a meat salad
or something like that. Okay, that could be
some premium meat like a genuine mortadella,

merryb wrote:
>
> I have a lot of my grandma's recipes- it's a little eerie looking at
> the ones she hand wrote. Among my favorites is her ravioli filling
> recipe. It's kinda comforing to look thru them, ya know??

And so what are you going to do? Are you going
to leave behind any recipes?

I'm not aware of any good recipes that my mom
created. I've created a few good ones and
lots of bad ones. I'm not aware of any recipes
inherited from previous genrations from my mom,
though she did some experimental variations
of the recipes she followed which were
educational on how to do food. The most I
learned from my mom about cooking was technique,
not recipes nor the handling of raw food materials.

I've got a number of great recipes. I've never
had fried squid better than what I can make.
Appealing to a larger audience, I've never had
better quesadillas than what I can make.

I've considered the possibility of faking
a family heritage of great recipes. These
would be great recipes that I've created, so
I know they work. Or maybe I just tested
other recipes of various non-obvious origins,
all rolled together into a book. And maybe
a few of my mom's recipes which aren't too bad,
and slightly altered, if you don't mind
sliced hot dogs as the meat in a meat salad
or something like that. Okay, that could be
some premium meat like a genuine mortadella,

On Fri 23 May 2008 03:05:43p, Jean B. told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Thu 22 May 2008 08:01:59p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...
>>
>>> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
>>> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
>>> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
>>> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
>>> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
>>> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
>>> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
>>> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
>>> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
>>> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>>>
>>> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
>>> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
>>> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
>>> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
>>> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
>>> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
>>> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
>>> close kith and kin.
>>>
>>> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
>>> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
>>> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
>>> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
>>> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
>>> my mother's handwriting.
>>>
>>> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
>>> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
>>> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
>>> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
>>> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
>>> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
>>> fondly remembered relatives.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>>
>> I can certainly identify with the feeling. Years before there were
>> PCs, I photocopied all my mother's and relative's recipes and recipe
>> cards and put the pages in vinyl page protectors in 3-ring binders.
>> Somehow I amassed 4 3-inch ring binders of these. Most have never made
>> it to my PC, since it's easy to browse through the binders.
>>
>> When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection
>> and a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I
>> cherished having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out
>> the box along with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish
>> I had the cards and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I
>> have a "real" image of them.
>>
>> One of these days I would like to enter them all into MasterCook,
>> though, just for ease of searching and use.
>>
>>
> OMG! How painful that must have been--and still be. Yikes!!!!
>

Yes, it was, and I still think of it. But I couldn't be at all upset with
David, as it was totally an accident, and he was extremely fond of my
mother. I think he was almost as upset.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Countdown till Memorial Day
2dys 3hrs 30mins
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I am, therefore I am (I don't draw
conclusions).
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On Fri 23 May 2008 03:05:43p, Jean B. told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Thu 22 May 2008 08:01:59p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...
>>
>>> Another thread had me digging out my late mother's handwritten
>>> recipes, which I hadn't looked at in *years* I had mostly (I thought)
>>> copied old family favorites into Mastercook software, later folded
>>> same into Now You're Cooking! The recipe software is great stuff, but
>>> looking through my mother's handwritten recipes was something akin to
>>> a roll call of my family's friends and relatives (mostly *dead*
>>> friends and relatives): "Jean Alger's Dumplings," "Erma's Devil's Food
>>> Cake," "Ethel Lata's Pineapple Upside Down Cake," "Leona Meredith's
>>> Chicken in Pastry Squares,"Anis' Pork Chops and Potatoes," "Clara
>>> Hinton's Beets," "Alma's Waffles."
>>>
>>> So, the recipes that "didn't make the cut" from the "Kitchen
>>> Scrapbook" and her box of 3 x 5" cards to my recipe software
>>> languished in a cupboard along with their "owners" until I just dug
>>> 'em out about a half hour ago. If I ever get a chance to actually
>>> retire (attempt #3 didn't work either - my boss just keeps sweetening
>>> the deal), I am going to input every last one of those recipes into my
>>> recipe software in a separate category, and "publish" a book for my
>>> close kith and kin.
>>>
>>> Most of the recipes in my recipe software database have contributors
>>> such as "Bon Appetit," "Koko@rfc," "LA Times," etc. I still have a
>>> number that note, "Grandmother Hopkins' Biscuit Recipe," "Great
>>> Grandmother Marken's Nut Bread," "Auntie Ree's Meatloaf," etc., but it
>>> doesn't have the same smile-value as seeing these recipes written in
>>> my mother's handwriting.
>>>
>>> And things were going well, nostalgically speaking, until one recipe
>>> in the old "Kitchen Scrapbook" leaped out at me: the childhood
>>> scarring, instantly gag reflexive, monster-in-the-culinary-closet of
>>> my youth: "Aunt Nina's Green Tuna Casserole." *Now* I know exactly
>>> which forebear created this abomination of my childhood and can
>>> retroactively remove my grandmother's twin sister from my list of
>>> fondly remembered relatives.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>>
>> I can certainly identify with the feeling. Years before there were
>> PCs, I photocopied all my mother's and relative's recipes and recipe
>> cards and put the pages in vinyl page protectors in 3-ring binders.
>> Somehow I amassed 4 3-inch ring binders of these. Most have never made
>> it to my PC, since it's easy to browse through the binders.
>>
>> When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection
>> and a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I
>> cherished having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out
>> the box along with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish
>> I had the cards and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I
>> have a "real" image of them.
>>
>> One of these days I would like to enter them all into MasterCook,
>> though, just for ease of searching and use.
>>
>>
> OMG! How painful that must have been--and still be. Yikes!!!!
>

Yes, it was, and I still think of it. But I couldn't be at all upset with
David, as it was totally an accident, and he was extremely fond of my
mother. I think he was almost as upset.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Friday, 05(V)/23(XXIII)/08(MMVIII)
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Countdown till Memorial Day
2dys 3hrs 30mins
-------------------------------------------
I am, therefore I am (I don't draw
conclusions).
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On Fri 23 May 2008 07:07:27p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...

> On Fri, 23 May 2008 05:04:31 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> <[email protected]> fired up random neurons and synapses
> to opine:
>
>>When my mother passed away I inherited her cookbooks, recipe collection
>>and a lovely cedar card file box filled with the recipes on cards. I
>>cherished having these. Unfortunately, David accidentally threw out the
>>box along with what he thought was a box of rubbish. I still wish I had
>>the cards and the box for sentimental reasons, but at least I have a
>>"real" image of them.
>>
> Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
> was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
> is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
> (one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
> box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
> from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
> can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
> that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
> worth a bunch.
> --
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

Actually, Terry, my mother's (and her family's) recipe were really quite
good for the most part. They rare kept magazine snippets and the like. A
fair number of my grandmother's recipes won her blue ribbons at county and
state fairs.

I'm just very glad that years before this happened I had photocopied them.
Especially, too, because even though they're copies, I can still smile
nostalgically when I read them, the handwriting is still there.


--
Wayne Boatwright
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Friday, 05(V)/23(XXIII)/08(MMVIII)
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Countdown till Memorial Day
2dys 3hrs 30mins
-------------------------------------------
I am, therefore I am (I don't draw
conclusions).
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