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Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: TeamBhakta Date: September 6, 2018, 12:20 am
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Atlas Obscura had an article about secret family recipes where
the secret was "Grandma used a box mix" or "Mom found the recipe
on a package." What secret recipes in your family were a
surprise like that ?
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Hmmm Date: September 6, 2018, 8:39 am
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We had a hilarious discussion about family recipes a few years
back. My sister is 10 years older than me. She married a man
with 2 sons who were around 6 & 8. The younger one (he's now 40)
and I were reminiscing about their visits to my parents and he
got to talking about food he remembered and missed. (My parents
have been deceased for 25 years, so he had memories from
childhood and early teens).
-Mom's beloved lasagna? Meat sauce made with Lawry's spaghetti
sauce and the rest was following the recipe from the back of the
Skinner noodle package. But because she was normally making it
for a large crowd she'd double the layers so it looked really
impressive (and did taste really good)
-My chocolate chip cake? Duncan hines yellow cake mix made with
sour cream and with hershey chocolate chips mixed into the
batter.
-Chocolate Christmas cookies? Recipe his stepmom was given in
8th grade Home Ec class because they were no bake and she was a
terrible cook.
There were many things like Dad's chili and Mom's dressing that
were recipes developed and tweaked over the years, but we had a
great laugh about him wondering how his English/Irish step
grandmother living in deep East Texas (not a lot of Italians in
the area) learned to make the best lasagna he's ever had.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Thitpualso Date: September 6, 2018, 10:58 am
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Not a relative but a local legend from my childhood.
A member of the local Methodist Church was famous for her
excellent fudge. When the church had a bazaar, there was always
a line out the door for Eva May’s confection. Many women from
the Catholic and Baptist churches tried mightily to replicate
that scrumptious recipe and beef up their own church bazaar
sales. No one quite managed it.
My mother finally gave up and made some Christmas fudge using
the recipe on the back of a condensed milk can.
MIRABLE DICTU! It was exactly Eva May’s fudge.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Rose Red Date: September 6, 2018, 2:15 pm
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For office parties, they use to beg my sister for her chocolate
chip cookies. It's from a box mix and fancied up with walnuts or
pecans. She never claimed it was homemade from scratch, but she
never said it wasn't either ;D
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Thitpualso Date: September 6, 2018, 5:17 pm
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I’m not sure if this is true but it’s entertaining.
The story is that a young woman loved her Grandmother’s chicken
noodle soup like nothing else on the face of the earth. It was
delicate and soothing with little nuggets of chicken and small,
silvery noodles in a clear, tasty broth.
The young woman developed a cold and a friend who lived in the
same building invited her over for lunch. Chicken noodle soup
would be served. The invitation was accepted but hopes for the
soup were low. Nothing could compare with the soup Grandma
made.
The soup she was served was Grandma’s soup. It was also the
Lipton’s chicken noodle soup that came in an envelope.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: TeamBhakta Date: September 6, 2018, 8:45 pm
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=655.msg13135#msg13135
date=1536241149]
-My chocolate chip cake? Duncan hines yellow cake mix made with
sour cream and with hershey chocolate chips mixed into the
batter.
[/quote]
How much sour cream do you add ?
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Hmmm Date: September 7, 2018, 11:42 am
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[quote author=TeamBhakta link=topic=655.msg13218#msg13218
date=1536284747]
[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=655.msg13135#msg13135
date=1536241149]
-My chocolate chip cake? Duncan hines yellow cake mix made with
sour cream and with hershey chocolate chips mixed into the
batter.
[/quote]
How much sour cream do you add ?
[/quote]
1 box of cake mix (yellow, not butter), 1 small package of
instant vanilla pudding, 8 oz container of sour cream, 1/2 cup
vegetable oil, 1/2 cup water, 4 large eggs and mix in stand
mixer 2 min. Add 1 tsp vanilla and stir in a cup of semisweet
chocolate chips. Bake in bundt pan at 350 for 50 min. Once
cooled you can drizzle with a chocolate glaze but we usually
just dusted with powdered sugar.
We like the chocolate chips sinking to the bottom (or top once
flipped) but if you want them disappeared through the cake, coat
them with some of the cake mix before mixing into the batter.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Aleko Date: September 8, 2018, 10:28 am
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My mum wowed people for decades with her caramelised oranges.
Guests would wonder what expensive, sophisticatedly-bitter
orange liqueur she had used to make it. Actually she got the
recipe of a Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup tin some time in the 1960s,
and there was literally nothing in the dish but oranges and
golden syrup. (Plus dollops of whipped cream on top, of course.)
i still make it. It's cheap, it's quick, it's really impossible
to go wrong - no burnt caramel, no sugar burns - and while I
have eaten caramelised oranges made by far more skilled,
expensive and laborious means I have honestly never tasted any
that were better than Mum's and mine.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: TeamBhakta Date: September 8, 2018, 8:07 pm
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=655.msg13317#msg13317
date=1536420538]
My mum wowed people for decades with her caramelised oranges.
Guests would wonder what expensive, sophisticatedly-bitter
orange liqueur she had used to make it. Actually she got the
recipe of a Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup tin some time in the 1960s,
and there was literally nothing in the dish but oranges and
golden syrup. (Plus dollops of whipped cream on top, of course.)
i still make it. It's cheap, it's quick, it's really impossible
to go wrong - no burnt caramel, no sugar burns - and while I
have eaten caramelised oranges made by far more skilled,
expensive and laborious means I have honestly never tasted any
that were better than Mum's and mine.
[/quote]
How do you make it ? Is it cold golden syrup + cold oranges, or
do you heat both up ?
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: gramma dishes Date: September 8, 2018, 8:12 pm
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=655.msg13317#msg13317
date=1536420538]
My mum wowed people for decades with her caramelised oranges.
Guests would wonder what expensive, sophisticatedly-bitter
orange liqueur she had used to make it. Actually she got the
recipe of a Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup tin some time in the 1960s,
and there was literally nothing in the dish but oranges and
golden syrup. (Plus dollops of whipped cream on top, of course.)
i still make it. It's cheap, it's quick, it's really impossible
to go wrong - no burnt caramel, no sugar burns - and while I
have eaten caramelised oranges made by far more skilled,
expensive and laborious means I have honestly never tasted any
that were better than Mum's and mine.
[/quote]
Is Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup strictly something you'd find in
only the U.K.? Or is it available it the U.S. too? I don't
think I've ever heard of it or seen it!
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