When you try to make your Granny's old recipe
Southern grandmas have the best recipes, but good luck figuring out how much a helpin’ is.
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When you try to make your Granny's old recipe
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We’ve been trying to do this with my Mom’s pan fried crab cakes since forever. My oldest sister sent me a written recipe that included “white pepper”.
There’s never been white pepper in our house growing up. Marianne has been living north of the Mason Dixon line far too long honey.
Live by the fork. Die by cholesterol!
This reminds me of a handed down family shortbread recipe from Scotland. The recipe is in Scottish vernacular.
My grandmother’s recipes: a sifter of flour. I looked at my mom after reading this and asked her .. “hey how big was grandmothers sifter”. She had no idea. :).
Haha, I’ve seen Chinese recipe that basically starts with ‘make the dough’ without instructions on how much flour, water or salt…
This is so accurate I can’t breath😂🤣
Usually the whole "bake until it’s done" means one or both of two things. One is to crack the oven door open with a wooden spoon and when it starts smelling done, + a couple minutes, it’s likely done. You can also test with a toothpick when it doesn’t stick moistly to it it’s done. But yeah. Ain’t you even know that!?
This is also the recipe for every church cookbook.
We had a recipe from my grandma that said, "one soup bowl full of flour"….eventually my dad took a soup bowl that he thought was sort of the same size as what he remebers her using, and then measured it out.
Don’t forget the lard, extra lard.
How am I alive?!🤣
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Slovak grandma’s recipe for pirohy:
Add some flour until the dough feels right.
NOW I know what that means. The first time, I had no clue. 👩🏻🍳
Mawmaw’s peanut butter fudge, and since she is dead, you can’t ask her. I mean, I guess I could go to the family cemetery down in the holler of Kentucky, but it would probably be only one way communication.
I love cooking with bourbon, sometimes I even put it in the food 😂
if it’s homemade, the calories don’t count
Don’t forget the list of ingredients, followed by directions with random new ingredients in them 😂
My great-grandmother used to measure things like that, and my dad always says that his favorite measurement of hers was “just enough”. 😂
But like, that’s how my mom and I cook stuff to this days. Precise measurements? What are those? Add the number of eggs you want and then add the other ingredients until it “looks right”. Only time we use a precise recipe is when we’re using a cookbook!
Cooking by the seat of your pants is how all my homemade recipes go
The joys of dump cooking, my ex mother in law was an expert at it.
I love dollips, pinches and smidges 🤪🤪
I have my great great grsndmom’s cookbook. It uses: a teacup full, a lump of lard the size of a hen’s egg, a handful, a piece the size of a walnut, etc. Not a tablespoon or cup or ounce in the whole book. My favorite recipe is "Whiskey Punch"- take one gallon of well aged bourbon whiskey and disolve two teacup fulls of sugar in it. That’s some punch.
This is my apple pie recipe except the word happy appears a lot. Add sugar till you’re happy.
In all the years of trying I’ve only figured out the secret to ONE of my Nana’s recipes – her pumpkin pie. The recipe calls for 3/4 cup of sugar, but I once accidentally spilled a little bit of extra sugar in it… and that’s the secret. She’d put the 3/4 cup in and then dump in an extra eighth of a cup or something
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My sister called me on Sunday. She was trying to make one of our grandmother’s recipes & there was not one single measurement. I sent this video to her.
Lol my mom makes deviled eggs by sight but i made her give me exact measurements so i could write it down and make them consistently every Thanksgiving and Christmas.
My sister and my husband inhale cartons of these things every year, best recipe ever! 😀
Granny made it with love. That’s why your not dead.
My late gammy and great gammy instantly were thought of. 😂❤
Can I get the written recipe for this? LOL
Only way to make stuff real tasty- by feel and while drunk
Granny is a Chinese myth
My Grandma would have this stuff we called Coco. It was kinda like a stiff chocolate pudding…kinda. I ate it all the time as a kid. But when I got my hands on the recipe I saw that it was basically burnt sugar, flour, butter, and a hint of chocolate. I guess it was a depression era breakfast item. Real strange.
Y’all better write down what you actually did because it is going to be a hit and you will be asked to make it again… and again!
Not gonna lie, sweet butter cake sounds amazing if you don’t read the recipe
Italians are just as bad. Seriously
This is why I never learned how to cook. My Southern mom just put stuff in until it looked like enough. She told me, "You’ll know when it’s right." Nope. Never did. I bake rocks instead of biscuits.
A lot of these old recipes were from when people got up at 5 a.m. and worked till seven at night doing manual work, like hard physical labor. Take care of your eight draft horses, then cut the hay with the horses pulling the machine. Put the hay into a big wagon with a pitchfork, drive the wagon to the barn by horse, stack the hay in the loft with pitchforks… I mean you had to have butter and sugar to survive.
Y-e-a-h … there’s some things you measure with your heart: like BBQ sauce in meatloaf. I haven’t a clue how much I put in; a couple of *blurps*. Replying to my daughter’s indignant, "Mum, that doesn’t help!!" I said, ‘Then, ’til it smells right!" My husband (her dad) dragged her away as she was wailing, "That helps even less!!" [For the interested, it’s called, ‘My take on Mom’s meatloaf’ from *Taste of home* magazine.]
Ahh come on now. That looks delicious….see gramma knew best… lard and butter…don’t forget the eggs.
It looked good to me.
My grandma cooked the same way bless her soul
What is the name of the two actors in this video though?
Some of my mom’s recipes are lost to the mists of time due to the same kinds of instructions.
My scrambled eggs will NEVER be better than the ones my Nana makes.
My Grandaddy didnt use recipes. He grew up.poor. Anything he cooked used whatever was in the fridge at the time. It was always good though.
I was chatting with my husband the other day and I said to him, what do you think of Southern accents? He said, I like them. I said, me too and then I told him about you and shared your videos. I explained that you are a comedy troupe somehow like our own Kids in the Hall (we’re Canadian) and I shared your channel so now he will watch too. We are crazy for your accents and the comedy is a bonus!😊
What part of “Bourbon as Needed”, did you not drink?
My elderly aunt was teaching me to bake, I was mixing, she dictating. How much butter? Some. How much milk? A right smart. How long to cook it? A good little while.