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Sunday #Cooking up Memories #Inspiration


One of my precious keepsakes is a recipe binder my grandma made for me on my eighteenth birthday. She hand wrote each and every one and I can’t express how it makes me feel to look back on these colorful bits of paper knowing she did this for me. (She knew I needed all the help I could get! lol)

 

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Back when I couldn’t decide how I wanted to spell my name 🙂

 

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Today, I’ll share a staple from when Grandma was a young bride. Times were hard and meals had to stretch for a family of four.

 

First, the Corn Bread:

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And then Baked Beans. As you can see, my handwriting is MUCH messier than hers! She told me this over the phone and I wrote it down. If you have an old bean pot to cook these in, they taste so much better!

 

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Baked Beans

Ingredients

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

Navy Beans- small bag

1.5 tsp Baking Soda

Ham Bone or 2 cups cooked bacon

1/4 med onion, chopped fine

1/3 cup golden sugar

1/4 cup molasses

1.5 tbsp mustard

2.5 tbsp ketchup

 

 

Rinse a small bag of Navy Beans.

Place in dutch oven 3/4 filled with cold water; let swell for an hour.

Add Baking Soda, bring to a boil. Simmer 1-2 minutes until scum forms on top of water.

Drain into large colander and rinse well.

Rinse pot out, then add the beans and cover with water, about 2- 2.5 inches above the beans. Add a ham bone or cooked, cut pieces of bacon (approx. 2 cups)

Add onion, brown sugar, molasses, mustard, ketchup. Stir.

Bring back to boil. Place in oven and bake 3 hours. Watch the water. You may have to add a bit if it bakes down too quickly.

This will quickly become a staple in your home too, they’re delicious!

 

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23 Replies to “Sunday #Cooking up Memories #Inspiration”

      1. I’m blessed to still have my grandmother (she turned 100 in April and still has her wits). We still discuss cooking all the time, and she has (well, now I have) the best recipes!

        The fact that your grandmother took the time is proof of her love.

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    1. Hi Jodie,
      Mmm, cornbread with honey is delicious. My mom cooks the honey right into the mixture. It gives it just the right amount of sweetness 🙂
      Thanks for stopping by!

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  4. What a treasure, Jacquie, and a superb post!

    Both of my grandmothers (and one of my grandfathers) had already passed on by the time I was born, but I had a great aunt who did wonderful recipes.You know the kind they never wrote down but just threw together, LOL? My MIL also shared a number of recipes with me, written on 3 x 5 cards which I treasure.

    I noticed from your handwriting you have a backward slant. Are you left-handed?

    I’m right-handed but always had a backward slant as a kid. When I was young, the teachers used to slap my hands with a ruler to make me stop slanting that way. It quasi worked. For most part I print (I only write my signature) straight up and down, but every now and then I slant to the left. I have NEVER learned to slant to the right, LOL.

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    1. Oh, my gosh! My teacher did that too! Yes, I’m a lefty. Mom went to the school and reamed them out. I wasn’t bothered after that, lol.
      All of Mom’s recipes are like your great-aunt’s. I ask her how to tell if the dough is right and she says you can just tell 🙂
      I wish I could cook like she can!

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      1. I thought you might be a lefty. Back in the “old days” they were weird about that, including those few of us right-handers that slanted to the left, LOL.

        I loved how then women of earlier generations just “knew” what went into a recipe and never had to write it down! 🙂

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      2. My hand was switched when I was young. Now there are some things I do right handed, some left, and some I can go either way. I write with my right hand, but I have to turn the paper almost upside down to get the correct slant on it. My slant (on unturned paper) is dramatically left.

        I can’t believe you even noticed that, Mae!

        And Jacquie, regarding the dough, I’ve said the exact thing to my kids. I think the more you make something, the easier it is to know by look and feel.

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