I have decided to look through my Great Grandmother, Grandmother and Papa's old recipe box. My father gave it to me a few months ago. It's the 70s two toned green box in the back ground of the photo on my page. Being a child of the 70s, I love the colors. I am very happy my oven, stove and fridge do not match...I have a more updated kitchen, all the better to start reinventing their recipes. I do not want to change them. This is an exercise in remaking old school recipes to include local ingredients and have fun with wine!
My plan with this blog is to tell you the original recipe, rewrite it to the ingredients I can get at a farmers market in town or a local grocer, make it, eat with friends and family, pair with wine and report back.
I want all the feedback I can get and encourage everyone to try your Grandma's recipes!
My first cooking expedition will be this weekend, I need to decipher handwriting for the next few days!
I have to say this idea was inspired by my family, gone and still with us. I hope we will have many yummy family meals and you as well. Lets decipher and cook!
I got a little teary eyed reading about your blog Deanna. I have such wonderful memories of the family meals around your great grammy's dinner table. Her home made bread, breakfasts with her home made pancakes, the prune cake and her chocolate layer cake. As a kid I would help her gather things from her garden. Too bad she was not able to have the garden after you came along. The things we would pick and dig from the garden would go right into the kitchen to be prepared and cooked. Eggs would be gathered from the hen house. Milk delivered to the house from The Homestead Dairy.. milk in bottles. One recipe we need to try to find is the Spanish Cream .. a delicious custard that was served in a punch bowl and topped with homemade whipped cream... I could go on and on.
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