Boron Elgar wrote in
:

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:23:57 -0500, Debbie Deutsch
wrote:

Whenever I use my new-fangled pressure
cooker, I am reminded of the jiggling and hissing of the one my mother
used to use and memories of the dishes she used to prepare in it.
(Anyone remember Porcupine Meatballs?)

Oh, boy, do I!

I also remember being warned away from the kitchen when I was young
and the pressure cooker was on.

But most vividly of all, I remember the barley soup on the kitchen
ceiling!


Boron


My mother never warned me out of the kitchen, but all the stories I have
heard about food-on-the-ceiling are what got me to get a newfangled
pressure cooker when it was time to buy my own. Kate may be careful and
lucky, but it's something that could happen to her, too. You can't rule
out something being cooked getting into the pressure valve, and then ka-
boom!

My mother's mother was not a good cook, so my mother had little training
or inspiration when she started cooking herself. She did clip recipes
from the newspaper (and I have her file box). In addition to the
aforementioned Porcupine Meatballs (beef balls with rice in them cooked
in a sauce based on canned tomato soup) she also occasionally made
another meatball dish in the pressure cooker using a can of Del Monte
fruit cocktail as an ingredient for the sauce. My memory was that it was
good. However that was before I started cooking and then moved out and
discovered the big wide world of food. The nifty thing was that when I
visited my parents and cooked for them, my mother would take my recipes
and adopt them for herself. We never stop learning, I guess.

Debbie

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