A great grandma, still cooking

[polly479]

Hi! I am SO happy to be part of this group. I am a great grandma and I still LOVE to cook. I am sure there is still plenty to learn so I am always on the lookout for new and different ways to make cooking as enjoyable as it was in the days I was making after school snacks every day for a bunch of hungry kids just off the bus after a long day at our country school! I still love to cook the way I did 'back in the day' and am challenged by cooking a great, satisfying meal with a pantry that looks similiar to Mother Hubbard's!! I love making my own mixes and using the old substitutions I had to learn when we had to drive 20 miles to get a loaf of bread! Looking forward to learning lots of new things here.

 

[Mama]

And we're looking forward to learning from you! Welcome to DC!!!

 

[Alix]

Welcome polly! I'm sure you have lots of tricks to share with us. Can't wait!

 

[Kathleen]

Welcome to DC! I love hearing about cooking as it was done "back when."

 

[polly479]

Thanks, Sweetie!

That's about how I did it ... a little of this and a pinch of that! My son once asked me if a tad was the same thing as a smidgen!! I still love cooking like that! Sometimes brings a surprise though!!!

 

[babetoo]

from one cooking great grandmother to another, howdy.

 

[kadesma]

Welcome Grandma Glsd to meet you. Would love to swap then recipes with you.
kadesma

 

[polly479]

Right back at you! It will be fun, learning to cook new things and new ways!

 

[joesfolk]

Looking forward to what you can teach us!

 

[polly479]

Thanks! I am looking forward to what I will learn from all of you!!!!

 

[CWS4322]

Welcome to DC! You might be able to help me decipher my grandma's recipes that my mother and I did not get to (my mother has dementia and hated to cook). I believe the gene skipped a generation.

 

[Bolas De Fraile]

Good morning from North Wales Polly.

 

[Kayelle]

Good morning Polly, we're glad to have you here and you'll have a great time. Good cooks, good people, and good fun. This is a great place to hang your apron. Welcome.

 

[Josie1945]

Polly Welcome to DC.

Josie

 

[chopper]

Welcome. Have fun. I know I will enjoy learning from you!

 

[polly479]

deciphering grandma's recipes

I would love to help if I can. It is such fun to read old recipes and figure out (or try to) what the cook meant! I have a few very old cookbooks and each of my grand daughters will sit and read them like a novel just as I do!!

 

[Selkie]

Welcome! I see we're neighbors. I live here in the heart of the Ozarks too, just south of Branson and near the Buffalo River. There's a great old time cooking heritage here that I've not seen anywhere else except Guam. I think it takes a culture that cares about it's roots in order to preserve what was best from our past. The local Mennonites have taught me that.

 

[Jomilt]

Welcome, Polly! Happy to have you join us... Be looking forward to your posts and getting to know you better..

 

[Altanana]

Ditto here, another oldie but goodie. Nice to meet you.