As well as mine, and those recipes I DO have are treasured. It always makes me happy when I can hear from and elder aunt "Do you have your Mom's Crab Imperial recipe?" And now I have a lot of the recipes replicated closely enough for us ( Amish cole slaw,mayo cole slaw, crab imperial, dried chipped beef on toast, pot roast (to die for!) potato salad, pork and sauerkraut...and more such. My Mom could make dinner out of a pantry and freezer (she didn't drive, she couldn't go to the store readily- we would take the wagon No Lie 3 miles up to the grocery store after one of the local groceries stopped delivering!) and not much there either but it always satisfied us! We had an uncle that had a farm outside of Lancaster, PA- there was always good food there when we would visit on a Sunday,chicken, duck, beef- and I still to this day love the occasional Scrapple feast. In the middle states, they call this Livermush. Do you know what that is? It's pork scraps blended with cornmeal- it is a wonderful satisfying thing for me! It is an acquired taste but so hearkens to my roots(Uncle and his wife were of Dutch German extraction, and all their food was what they grew and still sings my tastebuds in remembrance!). When we do get together, my brother and sister and I- , only on holidays and vacations, sadly, I want to haul out my knowledge and make the things that speak to us...is there a site on here to start posting heirloom recipes? I've looked but I don't know- And if not it needs to be such, we carry so much of that with us if we are so lucky, and it needs to be passed on! If not mouth to hand then a repository of such...I know there are sites to noodle on recipes, and if you get it close you are lucky, but there needs to be something dedicated on here. Love that you have Norwegian(do you make gravalax? ) and German aspects in your recipe repetoire, (oh I hear that! Amish is the same way!) they are awesome! I LOVE to serve the old timey stuff that speaks to me at holidays and everyday when I can, and I love that my sons love cooking enough to want to keep that to the fore. I have a turkey roasting pan from my MIL, she's passed many years ago, and the kids used to pretend it was a boat and get in it on the kitchen floor and pretend to paddle with wooden spoons!. Helen would put a 30 plus pounder FRESH turkey (big Family and lots of Leftovers to delight!) on to cook the night before TG and we'd wake up to the most delicious smells. we'd spend the day before tearing bread and dicing celery and onions for the STUFFING (not Dressing!) ..I sure hope that oldest of mine will take that roaster in time when he and his wife have children...it surely is huge and I try my best to fill it every year but harder every year, since we don't get together as much. the most I will do is a 20 lb. turkey, just for the bonus leftovers and carcass to make stock from!
Please lets start a site for heirloom recipes, if there isn't one here. And if there is, someone educate me where to go. We have to call it Grammy and Momma's Best Recipes. It may be that no one of our time cooks that much anymore,understandably so, but I do love to cook and I feel like this has to be an aspect of this site Best wishes and much love to you all!