Leftover
Sunday pot roast became hash on Monday. Mom cut up the beef and add carrots,
potatoes, onions and the leftover gravy. Yum, she was the best cook. She would
cook and especially bake and give her cakes away to everybody. Dad used to take
to Rescue Squad when he volunteered there. She would even take to the guys in
the motorcycle shop across the street because they cleared the snow from her
drive.
I
have the Yum Yum cake recipe. I have made it over the years my grand mom always
said it was Depression Cake.
I
remember my grandmother making fresh lima beans (in season) and we had them
with bread and butter as dinner. Or a big strawberry shortcake made with
bisquit dough. That was it for dinner and we loved it.
My Mom would do that exact same thing. When
fresh peas were in season, my Mom would cook them and add a little milk to the
pot with butter and salt & pepper. Bread & butter and that was the
meal. I loved it when we had strawberry shortcake for dinner. We didnt have
whipped cream, I guess that was too expensive.
My Mom & Grandmom didn't really use recipes to cook by.....they just knew how and added ingredients until it "looked right". A little of this and some of that. Very few of my Mom's recipes were ever written.
When I
was a kid till in my 20's. Every morning for
brekfast, I had buttered toast in
a bowl with hot milk poured over it. Like Judi Grau
Shute posted. But mine was never salted. We called it milked toast.
Not sure who posted this. Let me know if you own this post and I'll give you credit.
Recently
had a "Millville moment", a friend asked me for my recipe for snidley
beans. My mother and grandmother made them with green beans, bacon, onion,
vinegar and sugar. Does anyone else remember such a recipe? Also, here in
Florida they make their chicken pot pie as a pie baked in the oven with veggies
and that doesn't even make sense. It's called pot pie because it is cooked on
the stove top in a pot NOT in the oven! They don't call apple pie apple pot pie
and its baked the same way in the oven with only a different filling. Love my
Millville roots.
We used
to eat a lot of boiled potatoes with everything, and my Mom also made a great
ham and cabbage too!. We also ate a lot of that dried beef gravy over toast and
mashed potatoes. When we were kids, I also remember getting the toast in warm
milk "sick meal"...I remember it actually tasted very good even when
you weren't sick! LOL
My mom used to make what she called beef stew, but it was much more like a soup than a thick stew. What was really different about it was when she put it in the pot to cook, she put a little frame made out of 2 wires across the top of the pot, and then rolled out a thick crust and put that over the top of the pot. When it was done, the crust had soaked up a lot of the flavor on the bottom side and it was nice and flaky on top.
My mom used to make what she called beef stew, but it was much more like a soup than a thick stew. What was really different about it was when she put it in the pot to cook, she put a little frame made out of 2 wires across the top of the pot, and then rolled out a thick crust and put that over the top of the pot. When it was done, the crust had soaked up a lot of the flavor on the bottom side and it was nice and flaky on top.
We used
to have Peas and Dumplings. Fresh picked peas with bisquick dumplings. Was NOT
a side dish - was dinner and was one of my favorites!!! I was even willing to
shell all those darned peas in order to have it!
My grandmother made corned beef and potato soup. I make it
too...a great winter meal. A can of corned beef and a chopped onion added to
almost cooked cubed potatoes with the water they were cooked in. Add salt and
pepper to taste. Boil for about 15 minutes or until onions are cooked and corned
beef is cooked broken down throughout the soup. Delicious with biscuits or
Italian bread.
I'll
have to try to dig up my Mothers recipe for "Baked Glazed Spam with
Cloves" or "Canned Salmon Casserole"!
Mine
used to make spam with tomato sauce and brown sugar and then we had it with
mashed potatoes sooo good.
Yes, my mom had a tough time teaching us how to make some of her
dishes, because it was "some of this and some of that."
Not a
recipe but....my mom's family lived in a prodominately Catholic neighborhood.
Every Friday the fish truck (fishmonger) would come selling fresh fish. Even
though we are Protestant we still ate fish every Friday.
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