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.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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