jitkaau

My dad was the cook - much better than my mum.

coopah

Is the pineapple pie a 2 crust best served warm? IF so, I probably (after several moves I don't know what I have!) have a recipe from my grandfather's companion that I could PM you.

Gerbie

My brother and I were always allowed in the kitchen when Mother was cooking, she taught us the basics. I really have never liked to cook, but I also allowed my children to cook or help when they were young and taught them as well. They both cooked along with my Mother when they visited with her which was all the time when they were growing up. Today they are excellent cooks. Both are single, and have to cook in order to eat. lol. My son has always enjoyed experimenting with cooking. My brother is a fabulous cook, I think his cooking came about mostly from necessity because neither of his two wives were great cooks. He did most of the cooking then and has been single for the last 15 years, so he has no choice but to cook for himself and others which he loves to do. I know that in order to be a good cook one must enjoy the process, which I don't.
My Mother had tons of recipes and the ones that were stained were the most used I guess. I kept all of her recipes and about years ago decided to share them with my children and a niece who was 4 when Mother died. I made copies of all of Mother's hand written and a few typed recipes, some of mine, my grandmothers and other folks. I retyped all of the hand written ones. I then put all in plastic sleeves with a copy of the original hand written recipes facing the ones I typed out, so they could have a copy of the original. I put all of these in 3" 3 ring binders and gave them each, one as a Christmas gift. I'm not sure how much any of them use these, but they all seemed pleased with the gift. This took several months, but I am glad did it. I think that this type of thing needs to be passed down through the family if possible.

justme CA

What a great idea for you to share with your family those recipes. I have a little booklet called "The Best I ever made" and it was written and given to me by a marvelous Nebraska friend before she died at nearly 102. Pauline Sorensen and I met at an Elderhostel in Iowa City when she was 86. It was on writing memoirs and I visited her for for next ten years often from my home in California. She had the recipe and a memory of when she served it. And I learned to love both Pauline and her home in Lincoln, Nebraska.

I consider my recipe box a trip thru my life too with all those cards in different handwriting and memories of the people and friends long gone who gave them to me. There's quite a span of history as tomorrow I will be 88 yeears old.

Doggramma

My mother wasn't that great of a cook either, but she made good goulash, round steak and gravy, and she loved making soups all mostly without recipes. My grandmothers were both wonderful cooks, but they didn't really use recipes either. One grandma's specialty were rolls made with mashed potatoes. So, I also make these without a recipe. When I first made them I honestly could feel my grandma watching me from above! One Thanksgiving when I made them my brother said "Lori these are better than grandma's!". Oh dear, sorry grandma.

riutzelj

my favorite cookbook is " The Spice Cookbook" which is out of print now. My daughter's love it as well and to save my copy, I searched and found 3 more copies for the oldest daughter's. The two younger are still using Joy of Cooking for the most part. I also had "the Good House Keeping Cookbook" which I gifted to my oldest. She put on FB that it is her go to book for techniques and recipes she is unfamiliar with. I have 6 living children and they all cook, some more than others. My son is a butcher so meat and fish is his domain.

Onebyone

I don't understand not sharing a recipe either. One lady at our church always brought the same dishes to our dinners. She wouldn't share the recipes with anyone that asked. Said they were family recipes and they would be passed down to her girls. She had to move to a care facility and her daughters had her recipe binder in the estate sell. Our church secretary bought it and put it in our church library. You never know what family will do no matter what you plan and think they will do.

svenskaflicka1

mom had an ancient betty crocker cookbook that she used fairly often. most of her stuff was instinctive, and that's how i learned. she had only a few recipe cards--but for my 20th birthday, she copied them down and gave them to me, along with favorited she had recruited from friends, a couple of months earlier. when i had a few years of cooking under my belt, she gave me a huge turkey roaster for christmas, and pronounced it her exit from the "big holidays", since she and dad were retiring. she never cooked a holiday meal afterwards. (i was an only kid--no one else to wear that chef's hat!) now, i love to cook, and collect cookbooks for fun and reading (i have one from 1915 coming in the mail, right now)--but none of them hold a candle to mom's old betty crocker. (we are from the twin cities, so the ties run deep!)

IBQUILTIN

My Mom was an excellent cook, and I learned at her elbow. I have had 3 Resteraunts, (*) and learned to Chef because of the fun she and I always had in the kitchen.

ptquilts

I inherited my mom's handwritten recipe cards, when I moved I gave them to my sister, I only kept 3. She used the Lily Wallace cook book, WW2 edition, has a section on ration cooking! My only cookbook now is a Joy of Cooking.

My dad's mom was a TERRIBLE cook, she used to make Irish Spaghetti - spaghetti with a can of condensed tomato soup on it. She did make wonderful dinner rolls though, they had raisins in them but they weren't sweet rolls. She brought them to every family dinner. Not sure if anyone ever got the recipe, if she had one, before she passed. I have over 20 cousins, so it is possible someone has it.