My Mom baked every single day when we were growing up, with the exception of weekends. Like a typical kid I wanted what my friends had in their lunches- store bought. I traded her goodies for Oreos etc. I look back on it and laugh at myself now but can't imagine I did that!!
She passed her love of baking on to me. I'm going to see her in a few days and won't trade her goodies for anything! YUMMY :thumbup:

My mom baked every week. Just thinking about fresh baked bread and biscuits makes my mouth water. Unfortunately, I have never been able to bake like she did. That's probably a good thing or I would weigh a ton.

My mom baked almost all of our baked goods when I was a kid. She baked bread once a week, every week and then she also made cakes and cookies on occasion.

She bakes store-bought frozen pies, does that count? LOL

My mom baked the best coconut cakes. She also baked a good pound cake. She usually make 2, because Daddy loved hot pound cake with a cup of coffee. Still my favorite is hot pound cake and the memories.
My daughter and grandaughter have the talent for good cakes.
These genes are past down the line.

Oh yes. I can just dream of homemade bread right now.

Funny! I was just talking with a senior neighbor yesterday. Neither of us could remember having store bought baked goods when we were young.

oh yes, my mom baked every week. Bread, biscuits, cookies, pies, cakes, etc., etcs.......hmmmmmmm

My mom baked a lot of cookies, cakes, pies, bread, biscuits. I can't remember anything baked that we purchased ready made.

My Mom baked alot of cookies and cakes, mostly boxed stuff. My Dad loved to make HM bread, and he made it almost every weekend. It was SO good!

Mine didn't bake except on special occasions. I was an only, and she would rather play with me than do anything in the house! She was the youngest of ten. When she did bake, it was delicious. Especially her pound cake. She taught me how to make biscuits when I was about 10, and my college professor asked me how I made them! I changed my major the next quarter!

I really only remember my mom baking banana bread--she cooked for us but the kitchen wasn't where she wanted to be. My Gran, however, is an awesome cook and baker and always had something in the oven. My favorites are her cinnamon rolls, biscuits and cornbread. Oh, and the poundcake...everything is great!!

Okay everyone, I didn't ask WHAT they baked! You're making me way too hungry !! LOL :D:D

It skipped a generation with my mom, but now I love to cook and baking is my favorite!! It's been so hot here that I haven't used to oven much recently, though.

My mom NEVER baked. That is not exactly true if it snowed she would bake 1 batch of sugar cookies. Not everytime it snowed I mean big blizzard stay home form school snow. If we didn;t have a snow day that year we didn't have home baked cookies. Now I on the other hand bake all the time. I make bread all my hand no bread machine or even mixer at least twice a week. Then there is cookies, cakes and pies. Right now I am wait for cinnamon bugs and carnberry orange buns to come out of the oven. I bake and I bake a lot. Mom didn't sew or quilt either. Come to think of it my mom did NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!! I never wanted to be like her and thank God I am not. I am like the woman who is so near and dear to my heart. The woman who taught me to cook, bake and sew, I am who I am because of her. THANK YOU MA SCHECH!!!!!!!!!!

My Mother never baked anything in her life, as far as I know. From New Orleans and a fabulous cook.
She did take a 2+ hour subway roundtrip during Easter season to buy the Hot Cross buns my Father liked.

My mom was known as the Betty Crocker of the neighborhood.

So yes she did bake.

My Mom was & is the Queen of the kitchen. She always made everything from scratch and we always had baked desserts. She can still make the best pies in the world. She really loves to be in the kitchen and is in there everyday cooking up a storm for her & Dad. I did not inherit that passion for cooking or baking. I do it, but I had much rather be doing other things. And my pies are not fit to eat. Cakes, breads I can do.

I even baked when my kids were little. I made all of our bread from scratch, by hand every week. I still bake cookies and cake from scratch once in a while for hubby and me.

My mom didn't but I have learned all my baking skills from my grandma.

Yep she did an assortment then would throw in somthing that just.............................................. .................................................. ..........................sounded good (sorry for the delay had to go get a cookie !! :)

I can't remember her ever really baking. Maybe a cake from a mix on rare occasions, but usually she bought baked goods. We had a variety of great Jewish bakeries and bagel factories to choose from in the Detroit area, and then there was Sanders and even the regular grocery had really good cakes and breads in those days, so there really wasn't much need for her to bake.

Mom baked a lot when we were at home. She taught me how and turned me lose. I made a pound cake for my brothers and his friends, they ate the whole thing so I doubled it and they ate the whole thing. Then I thought I can do this pretty!!! I made it three times and in a 5 quart baking pan and put red food coloring on top and swirled it, they ate the whole thing. Of course you made your icing from powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and a little milk. I do not how many weeks, yes weeks Mom let me bake that three times pound cake. I look at the prices of eggs and the such now and butter and it must have cost her a fortune. I need to get that recipe and make one for my DB when we see him this winter in Texas.

Linda

With 9 of us I think she baked in her sleep !!!!

We had a baaaad oven that was very temperamental. The cakes would either burn or fall. Not fun. When we got a new stove with a glass door, my little brother told Mom that she would now be able to watch the cake burn. lol

I was raised by my dad. He loved to bake pies and enchiladas.

lol @ Martina's story.

Oh yes!! My mother baked cornbread and biscuits a lot. She also made wonderful pies and cakes.I don't remember her making cookies too much.
I did a lot of baking when my kids were growing up. These days I don't bake a lot. My DH is diabetic so mostly I bake for family get togethers, company or holidays. I do bake bread, make biscuits and cornbread!

Actually we were just talking about this today. My Mother was the best cook ever. Every day when we came home there would be a spice cake, a pie, tapioca or rice pudding, sour cream cake, soft sugar to eat over cake or any number of yummy desserts. She was French Canadian and she could cook. I miss her cooking so much.

My mom baked almost daily. I can remember walking home from school and getting about a block away and smelling breads and cinnamon rolls. Needless to say we ran the rest of the way home. I always wished I had taken the time to learn all the tricks of baking, I love to bake, but never think I am that great.
@trupeach...I will be right over..yummmmy!

My mother baked until she started to work, then she told me to bake, so I did and i am still baking. lol

My mom made homemade bread and cinnamon rolls. I didn't share :) She made bread for everyone for Christmas last year - yum - couldn't wait to get home and pop some in the toaster.

My mother baked and cooked everything homemade, I sometimes envied my friends whose moms didn't, how crazy is that? What was I thinking.? She passed her love of baking and cooking on to me. DH & I were married over seven yrs. before he ever had a sandwich, up until kids happened, all three meals a day were homemade from scratch, nothing pkgd or store bought. Can't say that now,though. Pizza and coke win out sometimes.

My mom doesn't bake much. She cooks really well. Those aren't the same thing in my opinion. My great aunt was the baker. I wish I could be like her. Unfortunately, my cooking is a disaster (just look for eco-friendly targets and you'll see a picture of my muffins).

When I grow up (since I'm 47, I'm hoping that won't be soon :lol: ) I want to be just like my Mama. She has to be a saint to have raised me and my siblings. I'm still not sure how she forgave me for a few of my experiments.

My mom did not like to bake. A friend of hers took me in and taught me how to bake. I would do all the baking and mom would do all the sewing. I hated to sew!!! Funny how things change. (she still does not bake)

Loafs of homemade bread every Friday night, hot biscuits, muffins or cornmeal every meal, cakes, and lots of pies. When Mom made bread, she would pull off pieces of dough and fry it, then toss in cinnamon sugar....FRITTERS!! We couldn"t wait for those!! And she could whip up a pie while supper was cooking and have the pie ready to eat at the end of the meal.

My Mom was a baker. We always had dessert - cake or pie. And she always make her pies with lard. She said it made the best pie crusts. My dad was partial to cherry pie. So much so that my dad planted a cherry tree in their back yard so he could have the "real" thing.

My mother use to bake bread all the time,I can remember coming home from school and befor we could get into the house we could smell the bread bakeing,she would always put some dough in a round cake pan so when we got home we had nice hot buns that butter would just melt over them. I can still tast them. I bake bread also and love it , looks so nice and beatiful after coming out of the oven and the aroma the smell will stay with you forever.

We come from a cooking family. My mom always baked, and still does to this day at age 74. She makes the best yeast rolls and homemade donuts ever! Her mom, my Memere, owned her own restaurant and the girls worked there. I enjoyed cooking at a fairly young age, and am a "from scratch" baker also. I love that my boys' wives call me for recipes alot of the time. Even had my 10 year old granddaughter call me for a recipe a couple of weeks ago, because she and her cousin wanted to bake something. Gotta love home cooking!!

My mom cooked everything from scratch, and canned. Our treat was when she would go to Saps bakery and buy cases of day old donuts and freeze them. I tend not to buy premade either. Except for a loaf a bread. My kids always complain when they come by "there is no snacks in the house". What they really mean to say is that theres no junk food in the house.

Yes my mother baked but she wasn't very good at it. Still isn't. As soon as I was old enough I took over the cooking and baking. I passed that on to my daughters!