"Grandma's Favorite Recipes"

[Subdeacon Joe]

I brought in the mail, gave it to my wife.  An advertising blurb for "Grandma's Favorite Recipes" from Taste of Home magazine.   I went into the kitchen to do something while she looked through it.  She came in and said,

"You know what's disheartening?" 

(I turn off the tap so I can hear) "Ah?"

"I'm a grandma!"
(puzzled look on my face)
"All the recipes ... they're what I grew up with.  Tater Tot Casseroles, Pepperoni Rollups using canned crescent roll dough, Strawberry and Ricotta Bruschetta."
In my stunning conversational style I responded, "AH!" 

"Yeah, when I think "Grandma's recipes" I think of stuff from the 1890s, maybe to 1920.  All the recipes listed are from the 1970s or 1980s."

 

She's now taking a nap.

 

 

Edited September 19 by Subdeacon Joe

[Sedalia Dave]

Joe I'm surprised at your great restraint in not saying something that caused your Saintly Better half to wack you with a skillet.

[Sam Sackett]

Sometimes silence is golden!

 

Sam Sackett 

[Alpo]

Grandma's recipes.

 

On another board, few years back, they were talking about making cheesecake. And I said that cheesecake was simple.

 

Graham cracker crust. A block of Philly, a can of eagle brand, teaspoon of vanilla and a teaspoon of lemon juice. Mix it all up, pour it in the crust, stick it in the refrigerator for a few hours to set.

 

In my grandmother's recipe book that is called icebox lemon pie, but it's refrigerator cheesecake.

 

 

The really amazing thing is I had to explain to people what Philly was and what eagle brand was.

[J-BAR #18287]

"Ah!" can be a very appropriate response.

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

15 hours ago, Alpo said:

Grandma's recipes.

 

On another board, few years back, they were talking about making cheesecake. And I said that cheesecake was simple.

 

Graham cracker crust. A block of Philly, a can of eagle brand, teaspoon of vanilla and a teaspoon of lemon juice. Mix it all up, pour it in the crust, stick it in the refrigerator for a few hours to set.

 

In my grandmother's recipe book that is called icebox lemon pie, but it's refrigerator cheesecake.

 

 

The really amazing thing is I had to explain to people what Philly was and what eagle brand was.

And that ain’t no kind of CHEESECAKE!!  Cream cheese pudding pie or something like that, but only faintly hints of what cheesecake might really be.

 

Don’t get me wrong, it ain’t a bad dessert and I kinda like it, but it ain’t no way no how CHEESECAKE!!

[Blackwater 53393]

Grandmas made great soups and fried chicken!!  Mine did the best apple pie I ever had!   She made a sausage soup that couldn’t be beat!

 

My other granny made fantastic pot roast and spaghetti sauce!!  I use her sauce recipe and one she taught me for vegetable beef and vegetable chicken soups!!

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

This brings to mind Mo Lasses's Cowboy Campfire Cookbook.

 

I'd like to get my hands on a few more of those.  They made great  gifts and my own copy is getting bent, battered,  stained, dog-eared, grease covered, and just plain worn out.  Hasn't been many weeks I haven't used it at least once and usually a few more times

[Rip Snorter]

Thing is, when I was a kid (dinosaurs roamed) groceries were 95 or better percent ingredients that had to be turned into food.  Going to a restaurant was a major treat.  I can't recall Fast Food till the early '60's.  Mom cooked a family dinner  for 9 people on every other Sunday till just a few months before she passed at 89.  I don't do fast food more than a few times a year, restaurants, more often, weekly with friends.  At home, scratch, maybe once a month a take out Pizza or the Colonel's Best.  Win Win - better food and less expensive.  Survivor here from another time.

[Subdeacon Joe]

I think it's a matter of changing perspectives,  and a realization that the target demographic has changed. 

 

Kind of like 

 

 

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[Gorgo]

I am going yo give a try this weekend.