joan gaddis

my mom was the best cook and baker we were poor but we had dessert everyday and she always used lard,too

Debra Mc

I'm sorry about that. My mother had an alcaholic father. She has never drank either. I don't drink.

Minnisewta

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.

Shibori

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.

mrsk

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!!!

ann clare

I too learned to bake from my mum.Simple basic stuff. No thing fancy. My favoutite is breads, scones and apple pie.

May in Jersey

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

weezie

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.

Grammie Sharon

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.

Ramona Byrd

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".