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jmcquown[_2_]

On 1/9/2018 4:07 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:33:50 -0400, wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:13:31 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:33:45 -0400, wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> snip
>>>>
>>>> I am off to the grocery store presently and now I absolutely have to
>>>> have some oxtail! I don't care if people in NA don't eat it, when we
>>>> came here 50 years ago they didn't and the butcher would just give you
>>>> some, same with nice marrow soup bones, now they are an item and
>>>> expensive
>>>
>>> I have recipes from my mother that start with 'ask the butcher for a
>>> nice soup bone.'
>>> Janet US
>>
>> Lol, a lot of my grandmothers say 'Tell the butcher' but the one I
>> liked best was from about 1920 and a recipe for chutney. Daring in
>> those days it had garlic in it, her note at the end said "I always add
>> much more garlic, the boys don't care too much for it so they don't
>> take as much" - a consideration with eight sons.
>
> My mother knew salt and pepper and onion, no garlic. I discovered so
> much after I left home
> Janet US
>
I'm not sure my mother knew garlic, either. Except as garlic salt for
garlic bread. LOL I definitely learned a lot more about food and
cooking after I left home.

Jill