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I remember waking up to the smell of baked goods browning in the oven and thinking about what a memorable Thanksgiving dinner my family and I were going to have. Then I would shake the sleep cob-webs from my six year-old head and realize that Thanksgiving and my birthday, that falls a few days after that holiday, were still some months away.
Now it was summer and I and my siblings were on vacation at Grandma's house in rural Michigan.
In those days my grandparent’s house was always filled with the odor of hearty mid-western food made from recipes that were the staple of this country while it was still in its formidable years. I spent a good portion of my early years eating the same basic foods that were eaten by the men who founded this great country of ours. Their mothers and grandmothers had handed down special family recipes from one generation to the other, they swapped more recipes over the back fence with friends, and they just plain made up others as they went along. This was how people added to their recipe boxes in the early years when there were few cookbooks about.
My grandmother did it this way, too.
This book is a compilation of many of those hand-written notes that she had gathered over the course of seven decades. Not one of these recipes was, to my knowledge and her memory, ever copied from a book. Grandma either took them down while talking to a friend or she made them up as she went. Some of the measurements are not text book, but then we always like to fix food to fit our taste anyway!
Either way, the recipes presented here are good and robust and they are truly as American as food gets. Grandma and I both hope you enjoy them.
Now it was summer and I and my siblings were on vacation at Grandma's house in rural Michigan.
In those days my grandparent’s house was always filled with the odor of hearty mid-western food made from recipes that were the staple of this country while it was still in its formidable years. I spent a good portion of my early years eating the same basic foods that were eaten by the men who founded this great country of ours. Their mothers and grandmothers had handed down special family recipes from one generation to the other, they swapped more recipes over the back fence with friends, and they just plain made up others as they went along. This was how people added to their recipe boxes in the early years when there were few cookbooks about.
My grandmother did it this way, too.
This book is a compilation of many of those hand-written notes that she had gathered over the course of seven decades. Not one of these recipes was, to my knowledge and her memory, ever copied from a book. Grandma either took them down while talking to a friend or she made them up as she went. Some of the measurements are not text book, but then we always like to fix food to fit our taste anyway!
Either way, the recipes presented here are good and robust and they are truly as American as food gets. Grandma and I both hope you enjoy them.
From the Author
This book is a compilation of my grandma's hand-written notes that she had gathered over the course of seven decades. Not one of these recipes, to my knowledge or her memory, were ever copied from a book. Grandma either took them down while talking to a friend or she made them up as she went. Some of the measurements are not text book, but then we always like to fix food to fit our taste anyway!
