On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:18:49 -0800, sf wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:47:54 -0500, Anthony Ferrante
> wrote:
>
>>People, if your mom's are alive and they make special dishes you love,
>>talk to them and write down everything. One day you will be glad you
>>did and you can share those meals with your kids as your mom did with
>>you-- great food made with love.
>
>Include grandmothers! Food is part of family history. My mother
>wasn't much of a cook, but my grandmothers made lots of things I loved
>to eat and I wish I had their recipes for a couple of things.
>
>One grandmother (the Swede) make "dollar pancakes" that I remember as
>whipped "something" white (cream, egg white?) with a tablespoon or
>four of flour carefully folded in. Served with a dab of lingonberry
>jam, it was dessert.

I know what you mean. My grandma, again from the south, used to make
the best cornbread. I can still see her using the self-rising meal and
mixing it with buttermilk or whatever, pouring it into an 8 inch cast
iron skillet and then placing it for a few seconds on top of the stove
with the flame on. I guess she did that to brown the bottom of it.
Then she would place it immediately in the oven and when it cam out,
man it was golden brown. We cut it into wedges, put butter all over it
and usually had friend chicken, gravy made in the pan the chicken was
cooked in and home made biscuits. Also included in summer, grandma's
homemade Iced tea that always seemed to be made just right.

Damn, no wonder I'm fat!!

Anthony