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25 Old-Fashioned Recipes Your Grandma Knew By Heart

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  My grandma grew up cooking from scratch. It’s all she knew because convenience foods weren’t an option. She learned how to cook from her mother by handfuls and pinches instead of cups and tablespoons. She cooked by memory and by feel. I bet your grandma or someone you know is the same way. These women carried around a vast amount of knowledge with them that is sadly becoming lost in today’s culture.

 

  Convenience foods are great, but when all you do to prepare dinner day in and day out is open a package, something important is lost. Food is appreciated more and tastes better when it’s cooked from scratch and made with love. When you touch the dough and smell the yeast it truly feeds the soul. I want us to get back to hands on cooking and that’s why I’m sharing with you a list of my favorite from scratch recipes. Some of these recipes have been adapted for modern cooking (hello slow cooker!), but I don’t think grandma would mind.


25 Old-Fashioned Recipes Your Grandma Knew By Heart

 

Homemade Bread

Homemade Biscuits

Pumpkin Biscuits

Yeast Rolls

Pie Crust

How to Cook Dried Beans

Chicken Broth

Tomato Sauce

Sautéed Cabbage

Ham Bone Soup

Corn & Potato Chowder

Beef & Vegetable Soup

Sourdough Starter

Elderberry Syrup

Apple Pie

Pecan Pie

Butternut Squash Pie

Sweet Potato Casserole

Cranberry Sauce

Dehydrated Apple Rings

Pumpkin Puree

Apple Butter

Sweet Potato Bread

Red Hot Cinnamon Apples

Pan Fried Apples

 

 

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  1. Wilted leaf lettuce was always a favorite when I was growing up. Raised on a farm in Kentucky we grew leaf lettuce in the garden. Mom never used measurements on this is only by taste. Apple cider vinegar, sugar, bacon grease for the base heated and poured over lettuce. Crumbled bacon, chopped hard boiled eggs, chopped green onions mixed in. You can make a meal of this. Jean's directions in these reviews have the most accurate measurements. Love this website, Missy. Thanks so much, Sandra
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    • OMG, We, as a family of 7 ate this a lot; everyone love it just the way you described it. No need for measuring. It was up to me and my sister to look and cut wild dandelion when we didn't have lettuce. So good...this was in the 1948-1955 era.
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  11. This recipe is awesome! My boys ate the whole thing! They said it was better than take out! They are already asking for it again for dinner! They did not know it until I told them!
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  12. My grandmother fed a family of 9 and my mother fed 7. The food was always wonderful and I have great memories. I am probably wrong but I do not remember seeing a recipe book although they certainly existed. The other thing I remember is the limited use of measuring tools. The gardens were abundant, my grandfather was a master gardener, and provided year round organic vegetables! to our tables. I enjoy an intuitive approach to cooking only using recipes for inspiration. Thank you for stirring those memories.
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