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Did your Mom bake growing up??

Old 08-03-2010, 02:08 PM
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my mom was the best cook and baker we were poor but we had dessert everyday and she always used lard,too
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Old 08-03-2010, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by NikkiLu
No baking from my mother - that would have ruined her drinking (alcohol). I must have taught myself to bake because I did not ever see her do it. I baked a lot when my kids (3) were at home. Now that they are grown and gone, DH and I don't eat much sweets/breads.

So sad - mother is 87 years old and still drinks a lot. Went on a trip with my oldest DD this summer and brought her booze with her.

Neither my sister or I drink at all.
I'm sorry about that. My mother had an alcaholic father. She has never drank either. I don't drink.
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Old 08-03-2010, 02:22 PM
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My Mom would make home made bread and make sure it came out of the oven just about the time we got home from school. She would also make little loves and put them in little brown bags so the neighbor kids could bring them home for their dinners. Her cinnamon rolls were pretty good too. She has always said she would teach me to make bread but it just hasn't happened yet. She's 80 years old.. I better get her to do it.
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Old 08-03-2010, 02:52 PM
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uhh no. Mom was not a good cook :) that's why we were such scrawny children. her version of spaghetti was to boil the raw hamburger with the noodles, NOT drain it and dump in 2 cans of stewed tomatos.
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Old 08-03-2010, 03:04 PM
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I learned to bake from my mother and she was a fabulous cook, baker and sewer! When sh would send her famous(& I do mean famous) rolls to the church bake sales they wouldn't even make it out onto the table because the ladies running the bake sale would buy them before they were set down. She made them in pie tins and usually ased or more and got it every time!!!
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Old 08-03-2010, 03:09 PM
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I too learned to bake from my mum.Simple basic stuff. No thing fancy. My favoutite is breads, scones and apple pie.
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Old 08-03-2010, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Roberta
I never saw my Mom bake anything. My Nana lived with us and she bought from a company called Cushman's Bakery that would deliver baked goods right to your door. I had no idea all baked goods didn't come from Cushman's.
That brought back memories of growing up in Brooklyn, NY. We were kind of poor so buying from the Cushman's truck was a once in awhile thing for us.

Although my mother cooked everything we ate she didn't bake much. I became the family baker after I found a cook book with a recipe for an one egg cake. Didn't have a measuring cup or spoons so I used a big coffee mug and regular tea or soup spoons. Cakes came out heavy, probably too much flour but I love them that way. Cake frosting was a glaze made of confectionery sugar mixed with some vanilla or lemon extract and a little hot water.

Over the years I've baked tons of cookies, cakes, breads, etc. but now a days DH and I have to keep away from that stuff. Right now I could go for a big piece of cake. May in Jersey
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Old 08-03-2010, 04:40 PM
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She did. When my sister & I were 10-ish?, we were taught how to cook and bake. We took over the cookies, cakes, and some desserts & meal preparation, but never did do the bread making. That had been a Saturday a.m. thing for my mom for many, many years, but eventually she quit making it and bought sliced bread. Everyone at school had bought/sliced bread sandwiches, which my siblings & I coveted ... our huge homemade bread sandwiches were unattractive & weird. It was fabulous bread. I buy similar bread at the local bakery nowadays and it costs me plenty $$.

My father immigrated from Holland as a young man and, in the European custom (which I think is still current), there was much visiting in the evenings at our house. This always involved pots of coffee, tea, and plates of goodies. We were dairy farmers, so there were occasionally some daytime coffee & goodies as well.

I don't bake at all any more. My husband is a diabetic, so our "sweets" are pretty much only fresh & dried fruit.
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Old 08-03-2010, 05:05 PM
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My mom baked lots, especially at Christmas. It was so much fun. I still have recipes in her handwriting that I cherish as she had passed away when I was 17.
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I remember my Grandma baking a Mayonnaise cake
that she said my Mom used to "catch" the attention of
my Sailor father when he came home on leave!! Cooking
like that was the thing to attract attention of a man, then
and now. Like Grandma said "good looking don't last, good
cooking does".
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