Great "handed down" recipes.

C'mon! Give it up! I know you got your grannies' recipes squirreled away in those ancient 3 x 5 card boxes! Let's have 'em!

Seriously, I love these old family recipes and would be grateful for any that you wish to share. My mom used to make a fantastic Slumgullion and I wish I still had the recipe but I don't. Her corned beef hash was equally great. Plain family cooking (but good cooking) on a budget.

But I like all sorts of old recipes, especially the geeky ones from the 50s (Perfection Salad, anyone? Yes, I know PS came from much earlier than the 50s. ). Hot dog casseroles and all that other good stuff!


Bring it on!

This is from my grandma. For the longest time I sworn to secrecy. Then she decided "oh, to hell with it!"

Grandma's Frosting

Well, bless granny's pea-pickin' heart! Now that's the sort of recipe I'm lookin' for!

Thanks!!!!

I have made it my lifes work to find old Aussie/Kiwi recipes that our mums and their mums before them made
here's a link to the cookbook I've been compiling which will make for great reading in your cold winter
Aussie/Kiwi Classsics

feel free to ask if you need any translations Bone Man

cheers from Jan.

Here's a great one: Gingersnaps Recipe

here's one BM my friend !!
My grandma had this recipe from when she got married and it was from her grandma. Now I am thinking tht this recipe now may be close to 100 yrs old. It has been handed down through the generations.
recipe #64343 Grandma Knorberg's Pork Chop Casserole

here is one of my mom's I remember this from childhood. Mom got this recipe from my grandma (from England) my dad's dad, when she came to Canada.
recipe #107859 Autumn Spice Bread

Grandma's cooking was fabulous , but she rarely used a recipe. She just made them. Some of the most delicious meals were her chicken fried steak and gravy, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, southern green beans with bacon, black eyed peas and cornbread, chicken and noodles (noodles from scratch), oyster stew, baked ham, pot roast, roast beef hash, fried cornmeal mush, fresh apple cake, Italian Cream cake, pudding, biscuits, and the most fabulous cream and meringue pies you ever ate. Instead of "salad" she always served a "relish tray", which would always include some raw veggies like sliced tomatoes, carrot and celery sticks, bread and butter pickles, etc.

In her later years, she traded some recipes with people, and made these quite a bit. She shared them with me:
Special Meat Loaf with Heinz 57 Sauce recipe #41739
Chicken Spaghetti a la Grandma Key recipe #41710
Strawberry Banana Gelatin Salad With Pecans recipe #122220

What a great thread!!! I adore these kind of recipes!!! I have added quite a few to my cookbooks. Here are a couple of mine.....

Grandpa's Cheese Spread recipe #127861
Nannie's Marble Cake recipe #129585


Happy new year everyone!!!

Karen

I have a cookbook started of my mother's recipes:

http://www.recipezaar.com/mycookbook/book/59441/

Great thread! I'm still working on compiling some of our family recipes...you know the kind, no one measures anything so you have to make it a couple of times to get the recipe written down correctly.

Here are a few that are finished:

Grandma's Wheat Bread recipe #149555
Tortilla Cheese Casserole recipe #149535
Pegge's World Famous Cheese Grits recipe #146271

Molly's Refried Beans recipe #126020

Actually, I am the grandma that hands down the recipes
Here are some from my Mom
New England Fish Chowder recipe #86560
Meatball Soup recipe #74832
and this one was given to me by a darling older couple
Mandel Skorpor recipe #86160

The Meatball Soup is very nourishing and great tasting as well. I think it's very similiar to what some people call Italian Wedding Soup.

Thank for starting this great thread. Here's some from my great-grandma...

Cinnamon Pie
Vinager Pie
Spice Chiffon Cake Recipe
Scalloped Cabbage Recipe

I am looking forward to fixing some of these new findings.

I only have two posted so far, but it's on my list of things to do this year to go through my grandma's stuff (I inherited all her cookbooks, handwritten recipes, and miscellaneous other kitchen stuff).

Kidney Bean Salad recipe #133761
Grandma Brown's Gingerbread recipe #40560

Grandma's Oatmeal Icebox Cookies recipe #115488
Grandma's Potato Puffs recipe #49894
Grandma's Grape Jelly recipe #37231
Grandma's Sour Cream Raisin Pie recipe #36779