Originally Posted by
Watson
I heard a story once...You all may have heard this one already.
A woman got a ham and cut it in half and put each half in a pan to roast. Her daughter asked her why she did that and she said that was the way you cooked a ham because that was the way her Mom always did it. The daughter asked her Grandmother why she did it that way and she said, "Because I never had a pan big enough, so I had to cut it in two!"
Watson
I have heard a variation of that story and totally believe it! My mom used some ingredients because that was something she always had in house! So, I've learned to just use her recipes as a guide line for sure.