My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
pastries every week.

A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:

Curd Tarts

4oz Short Crust pastry

8 oz curd cheese (or cottage cheese)
2oz sugar
2oz currants or raisins
1 egg
1 1/2 oz butter
pinch nutmeg

Line 7inch flan tin (or patty tins) with pastry

Melt butter, mix in all other ingredients, fill case/s
Bake in hot oven 425f for 15-20 minutes


Rich Scones

8 oz SR flour
1/2 tspn salt
1 1/2 oz butter
1 oz sugar
2 tblspns currants or sultanas
1 egg and milk to make 1/4 liquid (keep back a spoonful for tops)

Makes 10 scones

Mix flour and salt in basin and rub in butter
Mix in sugar and fruit
Beat egg and milk together, add to flour to make a soft dough.
Turn onto floured board and roll out gently 1/2 inch thickness with 2 1/2
inch cutter.
Place on greased baking sheet, brush over tops with beaten egg or milk

Bake in hot oven 425f for 10 minutes

What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!


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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

>My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>pastries every week.
>
>A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>snip
>What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>
I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
enjoy them near as much.
Janet US

On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>> pastries every week.
>>
>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>> snip
>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>
> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
(snipped)
> Janet US
>
If it had "legs" it was a spider

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"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>>My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>pastries every week.
>>
>>A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>snip
>>What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>
> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
> simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
> We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
> them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
> had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
> enjoy them near as much.

I had heard of them but didn't really know what they were and had to look
them up Do you ever cook those these days?
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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>> pastries every week.
>>>
>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>> snip
>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>
>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
> (snipped)
>> Janet US
>>
> If it had "legs" it was a spider
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-CAST...-/251024528288

I have an antique Scotch Frying Pan which has three wee legs. It also has a
handle over the top which can hang over a fire

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Sometimes novelty is what impresses a child.

At school, snack time was buttered crackers and milk.

My mom worked so I did lunches at a lady down the street from the
school-she served me sliced bananas in a little cream with a spoonful of
sugar on top-the only place I have ever had that.

I remember my sister went absolutely ga ga over Dr Pepper when it came
out.

Cereal? I liked Frosted Flakes and one sibling Corn Flakes and the other
sibling Rice Krispies-so we all had our own cereal box :-)

We had (before fast food) a local fast food business that only sold
tenderloins-they were a rare treat and we loved them. They were
ginormous. Paper sack filled, with grease soaking thru, as you drove
home as quickly as possible to eat them while they were still hot. No
microwaves back then lol. BTW I have a running argument with a coworker
about the word tenderloin. She keeps using that word in reference to
chicken sandwiches and I insist it only applies to a pork tenderloin
sandwich.

On 1/27/2013 9:51 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
> pastries every week.
>
> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>
> Curd Tarts
>
> 4oz Short Crust pastry
>
> 8 oz curd cheese (or cottage cheese)
> 2oz sugar
> 2oz currants or raisins
> 1 egg
> 1 1/2 oz butter
> pinch nutmeg
>
> Line 7inch flan tin (or patty tins) with pastry
>
> Melt butter, mix in all other ingredients, fill case/s
> Bake in hot oven 425f for 15-20 minutes
>
>
> Rich Scones
>
> 8 oz SR flour
> 1/2 tspn salt
> 1 1/2 oz butter
> 1 oz sugar
> 2 tblspns currants or sultanas
> 1 egg and milk to make 1/4 liquid (keep back a spoonful for tops)
>
> Makes 10 scones
>
> Mix flour and salt in basin and rub in butter
> Mix in sugar and fruit
> Beat egg and milk together, add to flour to make a soft dough.
> Turn onto floured board and roll out gently 1/2 inch thickness with 2
> 1/2 inch cutter.
> Place on greased baking sheet, brush over tops with beaten egg or milk
>
> Bake in hot oven 425f for 10 minutes
>
> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>
>
Egg-a-cup. As a child my mother would serve me soft boiled eggs in a
coffee cup. I guess she put it in a coffee cup because of the handle,
so I could hold it and not make a mess. She'd scoop the eggs out of the
shell into the cup, add a little butter, S&P and mix it all together
with a teaspoon until the butter was melted.

I must have been about five years old when I spent the night at a
friend's house down the street. Her mother asked me what I wanted for
breakfast. Not knowing it had any other name I said, "Egg-a-cup." She
had to call my mother to find out what I was talking about

I still eat soft boiled eggs this way

Jill

On 1/27/2013 10:48 AM, Ophelia wrote:

> I have an antique Scotch Frying Pan which has three wee legs. It also
> has a handle over the top which can hang over a fire
>
I wish I still had mine - my ex-flatmate wound up with it. It had lovely
scrolls on each side of the pouring lip.

On 1/27/2013 10:48 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>>> pastries every week.
>>>>
>>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>> snip
>>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>>
>>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
>> (snipped)
>>> Janet US
>>>
>> If it had "legs" it was a spider
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-CAST...-/251024528288
>>
>
> I have an antique Scotch Frying Pan which has three wee legs. It also
> has a handle over the top which can hang over a fire
>
That's a spider! You could either set it directly over the source of
heat or hang it over a fire. Great for cooking outdoors if you ever go
camping.

Jill

"z z" > wrote in message
...
> Sometimes novelty is what impresses a child.
>
> At school, snack time was buttered crackers and milk.
>
> My mom worked so I did lunches at a lady down the street from the
> school-she served me sliced bananas in a little cream with a spoonful of
> sugar on top-the only place I have ever had that.

I used to love bananas and cream with sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
Hadn't thought of it in years.

Cheri

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:42:07 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>> pastries every week.
>>>
>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>> snip
>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>
>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
>(snipped)
>> Janet US
>>
>If it had "legs" it was a spider
>
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-CAST...-/251024528288

Maybe, but my mother and all her friends called it a spider. Recently,
I saw a Paula Deen show and she called her cast iron skillet a spider.
I can understand where the campfire version initially got the name.
Maybe the name just transferred when folks no longer had to cook over
an open fire.
Janet US

On 1/27/2013 11:11 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:42:07 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>>> pastries every week.
>>>>
>>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>> snip
>>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>>
>>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
>> (snipped)
>>> Janet US
>>>
>> If it had "legs" it was a spider
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-CAST...-/251024528288
>
> Maybe, but my mother and all her friends called it a spider. Recently,
> I saw a Paula Deen show and she called her cast iron skillet a spider.
> I can understand where the campfire version initially got the name.
> Maybe the name just transferred when folks no longer had to cook over
> an open fire.
> Janet US
>
That's certainly plausible. Then again, I'm not Paula Deen

Jill

"z z" > wrote in message
...
> Sometimes novelty is what impresses a child.
>
> At school, snack time was buttered crackers and milk.
>
> My mom worked so I did lunches at a lady down the street from the
> school-she served me sliced bananas in a little cream with a spoonful of
> sugar on top-the only place I have ever had that.
>
> I remember my sister went absolutely ga ga over Dr Pepper when it came
> out.
>
> Cereal? I liked Frosted Flakes and one sibling Corn Flakes and the other
> sibling Rice Krispies-so we all had our own cereal box :-)
>
> We had (before fast food) a local fast food business that only sold
> tenderloins-they were a rare treat and we loved them. They were
> ginormous. Paper sack filled, with grease soaking thru, as you drove
> home as quickly as possible to eat them while they were still hot. No
> microwaves back then lol. BTW I have a running argument with a coworker
> about the word tenderloin. She keeps using that word in reference to
> chicken sandwiches and I insist it only applies to a pork tenderloin
> sandwich.

We call those smaller parts on a chicken breast 'tenders/tenderloin' too

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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...

>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>
>>
> Egg-a-cup. As a child my mother would serve me soft boiled eggs in a
> coffee cup. I guess she put it in a coffee cup because of the handle, so
> I could hold it and not make a mess. She'd scoop the eggs out of the
> shell into the cup, add a little butter, S&P and mix it all together with
> a teaspoon until the butter was melted.
>
> I must have been about five years old when I spent the night at a friend's
> house down the street. Her mother asked me what I wanted for breakfast.
> Not knowing it had any other name I said, "Egg-a-cup." She had to call my
> mother to find out what I was talking about
>
> I still eat soft boiled eggs this way

Cool and nice memories too)
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"S Viemeister" > wrote in message
...
> On 1/27/2013 10:48 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>> I have an antique Scotch Frying Pan which has three wee legs. It also
>> has a handle over the top which can hang over a fire
>>
> I wish I still had mine - my ex-flatmate wound up with it. It had lovely
> scrolls on each side of the pouring lip.

What a shame

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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> On 1/27/2013 10:48 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones
>>>>> and
>>>>> pastries every week.
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>>> snip
>>>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>>>
>>>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>>>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>>>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>>>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>>>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>>>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>>>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>>>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
>>> (snipped)
>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>> If it had "legs" it was a spider
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-CAST...-/251024528288
>>>
>>
>> I have an antique Scotch Frying Pan which has three wee legs. It also
>> has a handle over the top which can hang over a fire
>>
> That's a spider! You could either set it directly over the source of heat
> or hang it over a fire. Great for cooking outdoors if you ever go
> camping.

We do indeed)

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On Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:51:43 AM UTC-7, Ophelia wrote:
> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>
> pastries every week.
>
>
>
> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>
>
>
> Curd Tarts
>
>
>
> 4oz Short Crust pastry
>
>
>
> 8 oz curd cheese (or cottage cheese)
>
> 2oz sugar
>
> 2oz currants or raisins
>
> 1 egg
>
> 1 1/2 oz butter
>
> pinch nutmeg
>
>
>
> Line 7inch flan tin (or patty tins) with pastry
>
>
>
> Melt butter, mix in all other ingredients, fill case/s
>
> Bake in hot oven 425f for 15-20 minutes
>
>
>
>
>
> Rich Scones
>
>
>
> 8 oz SR flour
>
> 1/2 tspn salt
>
> 1 1/2 oz butter
>
> 1 oz sugar
>
> 2 tblspns currants or sultanas
>
> 1 egg and milk to make 1/4 liquid (keep back a spoonful for tops)
>
>
>
> Makes 10 scones
>
>
>
> Mix flour and salt in basin and rub in butter
>
> Mix in sugar and fruit
>
> Beat egg and milk together, add to flour to make a soft dough.
>
> Turn onto floured board and roll out gently 1/2 inch thickness with 2 1/2
>
> inch cutter.
>
> Place on greased baking sheet, brush over tops with beaten egg or milk
>
>
>
> Bake in hot oven 425f for 10 minutes
>
Okay, I might try the Scones but how may I ask do you "rub" in the butter?

"Roy" > wrote in message
...

> Okay, I might try the Scones but how may I ask do you "rub" in the butter?

Make sure the butter is cold and cut up into small pieces.
In the old days I used my fingertips. Now I use a food mixer Just mix
long enough to make it look like breadcrumbs. Rather undermix than
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Cheri wrote:

>I used to love bananas and cream with
> sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
> Hadn't thought of it in years.

Same here, Cheri! Every now and then, when I go to slice a banana to put
in with my Corn Flakes, I still think back to that tasty treat, but I'd
sure skip the sugar now!

I guess what I remember the most from my childhood days, was the
wonderful Hungarian Coffee Cake mom would make every Christmas Eve. I
couldn't wait, as was the only time of the year she made that and her
Swedish Coffee Cake also from yeast dough. She also made big fluffy
raised doughnuts in the winter, when we were expecting company and the
BEST fudge ever. It wasn't the overly-sweet chocolate chip-marshmallow
creme stuff either, but was cooked on the stove. Dad and I loved it when
it didn't quite harden up, and we could eat it with spoons off the
dinner plate she poured it on to!

Also in the summer we'd take dad's pickup and a rake and go over to
Mendenhall Glacier and get chunks of ice that had fallen down into the
water in front of the glacier. We'd bring them home and they'd make ice
cream (no electric ice cream mixers back then..it was all done
manually). I couldn't wait for it to thicken up because since I was an
only child, I got to lick off the paddle. :-)

Judy

My mother was a dynamite dessert maker, a fave being cream puffs. She'd top half of em with powdered sugar and the other with chocolate frosting. Natch, we'd be SURE one didn't get more of the chocolate vs. the sugared.She even had to divy up the M and Ms by color, as if they tasted different. Kids like things even-stephen tho.


Being world's pickiest eater at the time, I can recall plenty of stuff I detested. My father liked stuff like spareribs and 'klraut. Ack.

"Kalmia" > wrote in message
...
> My mother was a dynamite dessert maker, a fave being cream puffs. She'd
> top half of em with powdered sugar and the other with chocolate frosting.
> Natch, we'd be SURE one didn't get more of the chocolate vs. the
> sugared.She even had to divy up the M and Ms by color, as if they tasted
> different. Kids like things even-stephen tho.

Too right)


> Being world's pickiest eater at the time, I can recall plenty of stuff I
> detested. My father liked stuff like spareribs and 'klraut. Ack.
>

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:22:42 -0900, (Judy Haffner)
wrote:

>
> Cheri wrote:
>
> >I used to love bananas and cream with
> > sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
> > Hadn't thought of it in years.
>
> Same here, Cheri! Every now and then, when I go to slice a banana to put
> in with my Corn Flakes, I still think back to that tasty treat, but I'd
> sure skip the sugar now!

A sugary breakfast treat for me is Frosted Flakes and blueberries.
Buying a box of Frosted Flakes is mandatory for me at the beginning of
blueberry season.... which reminds me, I have the tag end of a box in
the cupboard, it's blueberry season in the Southern Hemisphere so
hubby brought home a box of blueberries yesterday - getting a bowl of
it now and that will be breakfast. LOL

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:08:07 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

>
>
> "Roy" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > Okay, I might try the Scones but how may I ask do you "rub" in the butter?
>
> Make sure the butter is cold and cut up into small pieces.
> In the old days I used my fingertips. Now I use a food mixer Just mix
> long enough to make it look like breadcrumbs. Rather undermix than
> overmix.
>
I often put a mixture like that back into the refrigerator so the
butter can harden up again. At the very least, it doesn't hurt
anything.

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"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:08:07 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "Roy" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> > Okay, I might try the Scones but how may I ask do you "rub" in the
>> > butter?
>>
>> Make sure the butter is cold and cut up into small pieces.
>> In the old days I used my fingertips. Now I use a food mixer Just mix
>> long enough to make it look like breadcrumbs. Rather undermix than
>> overmix.
>>
> I often put a mixture like that back into the refrigerator so the
> butter can harden up again. At the very least, it doesn't hurt
> anything.

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"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>>My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>pastries every week.
>>
>>A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>snip
>>What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>
> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
> simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
> We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
> them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
> had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
> enjoy them near as much.
> Janet US

In the depths of winter in East Anglia, my grandparents would by sprats
(probably a bit bigger than your smelts) from longshore fishermen and Mum
would dip them in flour and fry them.
Graham

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
> pastries every week.
>
> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>
> Curd Tarts
>
That's a Yorkshire recipe, isn't it?
Graham

"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "z z" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Sometimes novelty is what impresses a child.
>>
>> At school, snack time was buttered crackers and milk.
>>
>> My mom worked so I did lunches at a lady down the street from the
>> school-she served me sliced bananas in a little cream with a spoonful of
>> sugar on top-the only place I have ever had that.
>
> I used to love bananas and cream with sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
> Hadn't thought of it in years.
>
> Cheri

How about strawberry jam on mashed potatoes, or treacle/golden syrup on
Yorkshire pudding/popovers?
BTW, don't knock it before you try it! {:-)
Graham

One of my favorite foods as a child was my Grandmother's Stollen. I
didn't care for baking and she didn't push me to learn so I have never
tried to make this.

I've looked on the Intergoogle and this recipe seems to be close to what
I remember Grandma making:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/s...ipe/index.html

On some cruise ships, they serve something similar on the breakfast
buffets and I always enjoy that... even if it isn't a close match.

George L

"graham" > wrote in message
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>
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>> pastries every week.
>>
>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>
>> Curd Tarts
>>
> That's a Yorkshire recipe, isn't it?

It is indeed Oddly enough, in those days we bought curd cheese at the
pork butchers. We actually called them, Yorkshire Curd Cheesecakes!
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"George Leppla" > wrote in message
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> One of my favorite foods as a child was my Grandmother's Stollen. I
> didn't care for baking and she didn't push me to learn so I have never
> tried to make this.
>
> I've looked on the Intergoogle and this recipe seems to be close to what I
> remember Grandma making:
>
> http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/s...ipe/index.html
>
> On some cruise ships, they serve something similar on the breakfast
> buffets and I always enjoy that... even if it isn't a close match.

Nice stuff
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On 27/01/2013 12:35 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> My mother was a dynamite dessert maker, a fave being cream puffs.
> She'd top half of em with powdered sugar and the other with chocolate
> frosting. Natch, we'd be SURE one didn't get more of the chocolate
> vs. the sugared.She even had to divy up the M and Ms by color, as if
> they tasted different. Kids like things even-stephen tho.

My mother was a good baker, as were her mother and father. A cousin
used to work in a dairy and used to bring her quarts of whipping cream
and she would make batches of chocolate eclairs.
>
>
> Being world's pickiest eater at the time, I can recall plenty of
> stuff I detested. My father liked stuff like spareribs and 'klraut.
> Ack.


I always likes spareribs, but the 'kraut was something that I didn't
appreciate until later in life.


One of my favourite meals was cream salmon in patty shells.... with peas
and french fries.

On 27/01/2013 1:16 PM, George Leppla wrote:
> One of my favorite foods as a child was my Grandmother's Stollen. I
> didn't care for baking and she didn't push me to learn so I have never
> tried to make this.
>
> I've looked on the Intergoogle and this recipe seems to be close to what
> I remember Grandma making:
>
> http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/s...ipe/index.html
>
> On some cruise ships, they serve something similar on the breakfast
> buffets and I always enjoy that... even if it isn't a close match.
>
>
I have never had a home made stollen. I used to pick them up at local
German delis. After Christmas they were pretty cheap and seemed to keep
well.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:26:18 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> I have never had a home made stollen. I used to pick them up at local
> German delis. After Christmas they were pretty cheap and seemed to keep
> well.
>
I made it once or twice a long time ago and it was pretty good. It's
not part of either hubby or my heritage, so although it was good - it
was too labor intensive for me (if I remember correctly, it was
braided) and I lost interest.

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:23:54 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> I always likes spareribs, but the 'kraut was something that I didn't
> appreciate until later in life.

Hubby can't stand "kraut", I like it in small doses but not very
often.

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On 1/27/2013 1:07 PM, graham wrote:
> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>> pastries every week.
>>>
>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>> snip
>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>
>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
>> simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
>> We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
>> them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
>> had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
>> enjoy them near as much.
>> Janet US
> In the depths of winter in East Anglia, my grandparents would by sprats
> (probably a bit bigger than your smelts) from longshore fishermen and Mum
> would dip them in flour and fry them.
> Graham
>
>
When I was a child, I liked a casserole made with potatoes, cheddar
cheese and skate fish. Skate was very cheap when I was a child, almost a
trash fish; now it's sold as Rai and is expensive. Cheddar was pretty
cheap too!

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Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:07:56 -0700, "graham" > wrote:

>
>"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>>pastries every week.
>>>
>>>A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>snip
>>>What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>
>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
>> simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
>> We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
>> them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
>> had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
>> enjoy them near as much.
>> Janet US
>
>In the depths of winter in East Anglia, my grandparents would by sprats
>(probably a bit bigger than your smelts) from longshore fishermen and Mum
>would dip them in flour and fry them.
>Graham
>
I looked them up and I think you're right. Simple but good.
Janet US

"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> On 1/27/2013 1:07 PM, graham wrote:
>> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>>> pastries every week.
>>>>
>>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>> snip
>>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>>
>>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
>>> simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
>>> We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
>>> them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
>>> had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
>>> enjoy them near as much.
>>> Janet US
>> In the depths of winter in East Anglia, my grandparents would by sprats
>> (probably a bit bigger than your smelts) from longshore fishermen and Mum
>> would dip them in flour and fry them.
>> Graham
>>
>>
> When I was a child, I liked a casserole made with potatoes, cheddar cheese
> and skate fish. Skate was very cheap when I was a child, almost a trash
> fish; now it's sold as Rai and is expensive. Cheddar was pretty cheap too!
>
> --
When we had a fish 'n' chip supper, from the local fish shop, Mum always had
skate while the rest of us had either cod or plaice. I don't know why this
was so It wasn't until I became an adult that I tried skate.
I hated cheese as a child. My grandparents would send me to the grocer for
cheese and he would cut a piece from a wheel of cheddar, kept under a white
linen cloth, no refrigeration in those days. It was obviously what we now
call "Farmhouse Cheddar", properly matured and too strong for a child's
taste buds.
Graham

"Judy Haffner" > wrote in message
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>
> Cheri wrote:
>
>>I used to love bananas and cream with
>> sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
>> Hadn't thought of it in years.
>
> Same here, Cheri! Every now and then, when I go to slice a banana to put
> in with my Corn Flakes, I still think back to that tasty treat, but I'd
> sure skip the sugar now!
>
> I guess what I remember the most from my childhood days, was the
> wonderful Hungarian Coffee Cake mom would make every Christmas Eve. I
> couldn't wait, as was the only time of the year she made that and her
> Swedish Coffee Cake also from yeast dough. She also made big fluffy
> raised doughnuts in the winter, when we were expecting company and the
> BEST fudge ever. It wasn't the overly-sweet chocolate chip-marshmallow
> creme stuff either, but was cooked on the stove. Dad and I loved it when
> it didn't quite harden up, and we could eat it with spoons off the
> dinner plate she poured it on to!
>
> Also in the summer we'd take dad's pickup and a rake and go over to
> Mendenhall Glacier and get chunks of ice that had fallen down into the
> water in front of the glacier. We'd bring them home and they'd make ice
> cream (no electric ice cream mixers back then..it was all done
> manually). I couldn't wait for it to thicken up because since I was an
> only child, I got to lick off the paddle. :-)
>
> Judy
>


It all sounds really good Judy. I remember when I was a kid, everything was
happening at the Grange Hall, dances, meetings etc. There was a woman named
Vi Hollis who made the most wonderful sheet type cake that she brought to
everything. I've never been able to duplicate it but I have great memories
of it. :-)

Cheri

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:49:38 -0500, James Silverton
> wrote:

>On 1/27/2013 1:07 PM, graham wrote:
>> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>>>> pastries every week.
>>>>
>>>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>>>> snip
>>>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>>>
>>> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
>>> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
>>> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
>>> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
>>> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
>>> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
>>> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
>>> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.) Since they are small, you
>>> simply gutted them and took the heads off. Everything else got eaten.
>>> We'd have the smelt for several days because we had a huge amount of
>>> them, but I didn't mind. I just loved that time of year. I've since
>>> had ocean smelt, but they are big enough to be "fish." and I didn't
>>> enjoy them near as much.
>>> Janet US
>> In the depths of winter in East Anglia, my grandparents would by sprats
>> (probably a bit bigger than your smelts) from longshore fishermen and Mum
>> would dip them in flour and fry them.
>> Graham
>>
>>
>When I was a child, I liked a casserole made with potatoes, cheddar
>cheese and skate fish. Skate was very cheap when I was a child, almost a
>trash fish; now it's sold as Rai and is expensive. Cheddar was pretty
>cheap too!

Looking back at my childhood and the foods we ate then, I would be a
lucky and sophisticated gourmand if I ate them today.
Janet US

"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:22:42 -0900, (Judy Haffner)
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Cheri wrote:
>>
>> >I used to love bananas and cream with
>> > sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
>> > Hadn't thought of it in years.
>>
>> Same here, Cheri! Every now and then, when I go to slice a banana to put
>> in with my Corn Flakes, I still think back to that tasty treat, but I'd
>> sure skip the sugar now!
>
> A sugary breakfast treat for me is Frosted Flakes and blueberries.
> Buying a box of Frosted Flakes is mandatory for me at the beginning of
> blueberry season.... which reminds me, I have the tag end of a box in
> the cupboard, it's blueberry season in the Southern Hemisphere so
> hubby brought home a box of blueberries yesterday - getting a bowl of
> it now and that will be breakfast. LOL

I always loved Frosted Flakes too. Mom didn't buy a whole lot of ready to
eat cereal, so it was a treat.

Cheri