Do you have any family recipes...

[tinkerbell23]

That you would never share?

Just inherited my aunts wee red book of hand written stuffs and all her bakeware. I treasure it so much!! Just off phone to my gran there finalizing some details as some ingredients werent clear, and i also wanted my grans recipes to write down.

Xxxx

[tinkerbell23]

Strange to say....i share soups and main meals etc no probs...but i feel strangely protective over my gran and aunts ones LOL....wierdo eh xx

[Answerprancer]

Not yet, but I am planning to get the instructions from my Grandma as to how she makes such good bread pudding. She used to make huge bread puddings in a (cleaned out) washing-up bowl. She hasn't done one for a while but next time she does, I'm planning to watch over her shoulder and take notes.

[tinkerbell23]

Well my aunt made this tasty cake but when i read her book to my horror only half the recipe was there!!! But i half remembered and so did gran so we have managed to peice it together. Hope i can make it as good lol!

Strange why im protective. My gran and aunt have always shared their recipies with me no probs!! Xxx

[tinkerbell23]

AP now that must have been a big pudding ....my gran still makes dumpling in big linnen rags! I must learn even though i dont like to eat iT xx

[beso]

My mother knows very little about cooking. No idea how to cook meat without making it tough, not a clue about pastry technique and uses a ton of salt on everything.

I do have a receipe for making icecream that I invented myself.

[merciasounds]

My mother let out a huge secret of mine once - it was why I always won the Victoria Sponge category at the WI - it co-incided when we got turkey eggs - you make a sponge with turkey eggs and it'll be the lightest, fluffiest tastiest sponge you'll ever make. To try and placate me, she offered me her mother's christmas cake recipe, and was annoyed to find that I'd already got it and modified it! Our food has altered so much in the last 50 years, more imports and intensive growing - nothing tastes like it used to! I was oaning the other day about swedes I was making cornish pasties, swedes used to taste mustardy and hott-ish -now they taste of practically nothing, not good when trying to make a decent pastie!

[tinkerbell23]

So you would keep it a secret then...until ur mum slipped up hehe! Whoops!

Turkey eggs...ive never tried one! Xxx

[ethandron]

we have a fruit cake recipe always referred to as 'capenhurst cake' due to a family member once working at the neuclear power station there, and obtaining the recipe from a colleague who use to bring in slices of said cake.
there are no recipes i wouldn't share, i'm always happy to pass on successful recipes to anyone who appreciates them.

[rowanwitch]

my version of Polish honeycake...all HM family say it is better than even the 'grandmother' made... instead of dry and open textured mine goes sticky like jamaica gingercake when I make it I have to do loads

[sherrardk]

I use my gran's fishcake recipe (but I have shared it) - always think of her when I make them (but as it uses tuna I don't make them often as it is almost cheaper to make something with steak these days!).

[askyourgran]

My grandma and my mum used to make pease pudding. When she boiled a joint of ham the pease pudding would be boiled in a cloth with the ham, not everyone liked it but I did. I think it's popular in the north-east, using split peas and mashed potato, but I wouldn't know how to make it.

[seadogg]

What about carlin peas gran, arn't they a N.E. thing?