i’ll never forget that wonderful yellow cake with the warm apple topping
my mom would sometimes serve us after dinner
years later when i was a mom
i thought of it again
asking her for the very fancy recipe
she was surprised
oh that? it wasn’t fancy at all
i bought a pre-made pound cake, cut it into slices,
heated up a can of apple pie filling, and poured it on top.
then i was the one who was surprised.
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What secret family recipe is in your lineage?
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“don’t let the secret recipe die with the inventor.”
-nathan myhrvold
My mom’s chili is my ‘secret’ recipe. Browned meat, tomato sauce, canned kidney beans (juice and all) and one very secret ingredient. Nothing hot or spicy but ohhhh so good!
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Great!
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I do chili that way too, using the juices of all the beans in it. So good!
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Yummm
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Thanks for sharing this. I’ll have to give it a try. Sounds good!
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I thought it was an elegant, multi step recipe, now that I know, even I can make it
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Typically male, I was to busy eating to notice a recipe. Thank goodness my sister has continued the tradition of our family recipes, passed down from our grandmother and added to by our mother. I never leave her house without a box of old-timey culinary delights.
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Luckily someone did)
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mum’s always have a trick or two up their sleeve 🙂
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so true, just ask my daughters )
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That’s a unique way to serve cake! Yummy
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it was, and funny that I thought it was so exotic
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I was to you and that’s what matters
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Right-
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😻
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I’m still eating some scrumptious Christmas cake that my sister made, and she uses our mom’s famous family recipe…
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How great
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Oh gosh, just hearing about it makes me hungry:D
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Open that can!)
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made me grin widely…. aaaawh, mums and their little secrets! We are four children and all four absolutely LOVE to cook. For ourselves, family, friends, invitees – and we are all really good cooks. I also adore cookery books with ‘stories’ attached, lovely photos, but I rarely follow any recipes. It’s just to feast my eyes – then I go, open my fridge and look onto my treasures here and there, and off we go. So no secret and/or passed-on delights, just some very lucky genes allowing us to cook delicious food for little money.
When I was still very young and freshly married, I once won the 1st prize of a cookery competition, a ‘waffle iron’ – and I still giggle at the way I won. I composed, sitting at my typewriter, a fun compo (sort of a pizza if I remember correctly) with absolutely no idea of what I was writing down, just inventing on the go and with no carbon copy of my winning recipe…. 🙂 That was fun – and it still is as even now – when asked ‘How did you make this’ I can only give vague ideas – but one ingredient is always added and very important: LOVE!
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Wonderful!- I’m an improv cook myself, thought baking needs to be more exact. All of my daughters are wonderful cooks, each with their own style
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isn’t that the ‘best’?
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That’s a great one, Beth. My sisters carried on my mom’s homemade periogi recipe. I adopt some of her best tricks but use a box of Mrs. T’s as the base. My daughter has taken on my pierogi cooking style, so on it goes.
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Yum! 😋
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That sounds like a winner, especially with no cooking. Discovering those childhood treasures is really fun.
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My mothers recipe is to use no salt in anything, or way too much butter…and yes…there is such a thing as too much butter
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I cannot imagine that )
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😉
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That…is a wonderful story. All the things we thought were one thing…turn out to be something else. 🙂
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Isn’t it so true ?
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My mom used to make noodles–flour, salt, water, and a little oil. She’d roll the dough up into cylinders and cut small noodles. She’d package ’em up and freeze ’em. When I got older, she’d let me help her cut two-inch pieces, small and narrow wedge-shaped. Some she left longer, but we had many a casserole with those two-inch noodles. She was born and raised in Warren, Ohio.
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How wonderful- what a legacy
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Saw that one coming but didn’t realize it would be tinned pie filling. It’s no secret my mom used Accent, which is straight up MSG.
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We had lots of accent at our house!
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I love that! She made magic the easy way!
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That’s the way to do it!)
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We don’t have any famous family recipes, but my mom was a great cook. We always had delicious meals night after night. Nothing “secret,” though:)
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That’s so lucky
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It’s very tempting, Beth.
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Right –
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This is too funny!!! But those simply made dishes truly are the best.
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Right!
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A box of Raspberry gelatin (follow box directions), drained & thawed frozen raspberries (use the juice as part of the cold water instructions on gelatin box), refrigerate, when semi-solid state (about 2hours) add desired amount of whipped cream (about 1 cup) to make a simple, delicious marbled raspberry jello treat. A kid favorite during the holidays for our family.
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I should have said “stir in” the whipped cream and raspberries, that’s what gives it the marbled look.
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Yum, I used to love all kinds of jello treats
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haha…not even a trick….just pour the love right on top. Cinnamon on rice….have you tried it. We ate it as kids all the time.
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No but that sounds good
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well, I haven’t done it since I was a kid….I lived if that says anything. lol
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I loved the post. Brought back so many memories! My friend’s mother always brought her famous pumpkin roll. Turns out it came from a lady at her church. She ordered a few every year.
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They is so funny
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This looks soooo good!
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It was delicious in my memory
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So many good recipes. I could never name them all. I can’t even narrow them down to one best. Simply a life of remembered good food. I’m trying to continue the tradition. 🙂
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Wonderful
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that sounds like the kind of secret recipe I could copy…
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There you go?
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http://pulungan.family.blog/2021/02/22/marga-pulungan
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When I was a kid, we called our evening snack “bedtime lunch.” One of my favorite choices was milk toast. Add “oleo” to a hot slice of toast, sprinkle with sugar, place in a low bowl and cover with warm milk. Yum!
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that actually sounds really good
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It was:)
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My mother did that with crepes she made and added the canned apple pie filling on them. It was because it was only for special occasions. We were in heaven when she made them. I don’t think we could even afford cake then. I never made the crepes the way she did. It’s the childhood memory that makes it so special.
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That’s exactly it
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The best “family secret” I discovered as an adult when stressing out about my first Thanksgiving pumpkin pie, was the recipe on the can of Libby’s puréed pumpkin. The pastry recipe was on the Tenderflake box. 😌
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amazing when it all comes to light
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Brilliant!
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my mind was blown )
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I get it. But I may have to borrow this recipe!
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It was really good
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So easy! But like you, I would have thought ‘so fancy!’
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Love it. I am always doing easy….
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❤
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Used to take leftover cooked/boiled rice , cinnamon and milk, sugar on it eating it for breakfast.
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my dad made rice and sugar and milk, no cinnamon – loved it
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Lololol! My mom made a Cadbury’s cake. It was made with Cadbury’s milk chocolate, marshmallows and cream cheese. Nothing fancy, just mashed up altogether and chilled in the fridge.
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Omg – fantastic!
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It was a big hit with the family! Highly requested.
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Beth,
LoL! I’ve been trying this for three days now and still haven’t gotten it right. I tried it straight up with the canned pie filling. Not right. I added sliced peaches to the pie filling. Better but still not there. I’ve just tried vanilla ice cream to the peaches and apple filling. Much better, but still not quite perfect… I then noticed there is some kind of white topping on the filling (in your picture). What is that? Is it simple frosting (water and powdered sugar) or some thing else? Just asking… My wife is getting tired of my experimenting. (Again, LoL!)
Kevin
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I’m not sure , it was the only pic i could find that looked like it. Maybe my memory was better than reality.
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Some times it’s the simplest of things that made up the best moments of our childhood.
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exactly right, sheri –
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Have a beautiful day. 😊🌹
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If you like Mexican and soup, try my crockpot posole..
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ooh –
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Hi, Beth. I was just notified that you are following my blog, and wanted to say a big “Thank You”!
Best wishes, Pete.
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My pleasure and nice to meet you, Pete. I see you around on other blogs that I follow and it seems we both like some of the same people-
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Yes indeed, I am sure you have been around ever since I started. 🙂
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Oooo sounds so yummy! We don’t really have any secret recipes in my family! Xx
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