"Nina" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 May 2008 15:29:49 -0700, "Nexis" > wrote:
>
>>Ok, we've seen what recipes you would want to pass down....that got me to
>>thinking
>>about all of the recipes that have been passed down to *me*. Not just
>>from my mom,
>>but from my aunts and uncles and both grandmothers, and one single recipe
>>from my
>>grandpa who never cooked but made an awesome salad dressing.
>>
>>My favorites are sometimes more techniques than they are recipes, and my
>>grandma Ma's
>>recipes often included measurements like "A handful of..." "A couple soup
>>spoons
>>of...", and instructions like "mix it til it feels right".
>>
>>What are your favorite family recipes?
>
> The Christmas cookies that my grandmother used to make... some
> wonderful caraway wafers, and cornucopias of dough and candied fruits,
> things like that.
>
> My mother's recipe for pearl onions in cream with cloves.
>
> My other grandmother's plum chutney... and that, unfortunately, is a
> lost recipe. I can't find it, and I don't remember it well enough to
> recreate it.
>
> Yorkshire puddings. Not a unique family recipe, but for years I've
> absolutely refused to learn to make them because it's such a treat
> when someone else does. Probably weird reasoning, but still...
>
> My sister's duck with curry sauce. Unbelievably good.
>
>
>
>

Nina, try Barb and George's other milleau, rec.food.preserving , someone
there maybe able to help you recreate the plum chutney.
-ginny