Welcome to #DoYouRemember on Cheap Eats & Thrifty Crafts!
We’re feeling nostalgic these days, thinking about the vintage crafts and old-fashioned recipes from yesteryear. Remember all the things you’d make with Mom and Grandma? While we’re still cooking and crafting, time goes on and trends change.Before you know it, years have passed! But seeing the first afghan you ever made or coming across one of Grandma’s old recipe cards can take you right back to another time. Our senses tend to remember the feel of yarn in our hands, or the smell of familiar food from so long ago. It’s almost like time traveling!
In celebration of those memories, we’re sharing our most nostalgic recipes and crafts all week long here on the blog.
Join the fun! We’d love if you shared your own memories, too! Use the hashtag #DoYouRemember all week long on Facebook and Twitter so we can see what you’ve got and share it with our readers. 🙂
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What’s Going On This Week
Check in with us every day for five minutes of nostalgia. Bookmark this page so you don’t miss a thing! Here’s our schedule for the week.
Monday, August 24
Tuesday, August 25
5 Vintage Crafts from Yesteryear
Wednesday, August 26
Dump and Go Beef Stew Recipe
by guest The Seasoned Mom
Thursday, August 27
Free Printables That’ll Take You Back
Friday, August 28
Victorian-Era Style: DIY Little Girl’s Fur Muff with Matching Doll Fur Muff
by guest Carolyn Wainscott
Vintage Christmas Craft: The Tussie Mussie and the Language of Flowers
by guest Carolyn Wainscott
Bonus giveaway!
To celebrate our nostalgia week, we’re giving away a fabulous book of vintage recipes. Downton Abbey fans, you’re in luck! Even Lady Mary couldn’t keep her composure if she saw this amazing prize. One lucky winner will receive one copy of The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: From Lady Mary’s Crab Canapes to Daisy’s Mousse au Chocolat–More Than 150 Recipes from Upstairs and Downstairs.
And the winner is… Hally Dolan!
Hally wrote, “My favoirte old time dinner is the first one I made for my husband after we were married- tuna noodle casserole topped with cornflakes! And i forget to add the tuna after i assembled it and put the cornflakes on top! so here I was , poking holes in the casserole to add the tuna!! oh the good old days!!!”
Hally, we’ll email you about your prize!
What’s your favorite old-fashioned recipe or craft?
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We just called “Boiled Dinner”; ham hocks or ring bologna, cabbage, carrots, onions seasonings all boiled together. Often included potatoes, never tomatoes.
I miss my grandmother’s meatloaf with smothered potatos
I REMEMBER THIS TOO !!!! My granny raised me and I soooooo remember that pot full of stuff LOL I never leked cabbage and still don’t care for it but the rest was awesome. Thanks for the memory !!
My favorite old-fashioned recipe is matzo ball soup. There is nothing better to lift the spirits.
Our favorite growing up was my Grandma’s banana cake– white cake, powdered sugar icing with sliced bananas in between layers and on top. When my brother was newly married, his new wife made him a banana cake BUT she put bananas in it. He let her know that wasn’t what he wanted. She never made that mistake again. We were raised in our Grandparent’s home and friends would come on Sunday just to have that delicious cake. I make it for my birthday to this day.
My mother making cooked chocolate pudding
Banana pudding
My ability to crochet. Growing up all of our pillow cases had crocheted edgings, and my Grandmother taught me to crochet lacey edgings at the age of 5. Even though I work full time, I still have something I’m crocheting next to my favorite chair that I pick up and work on almost every day.
It’s very interesting, I would like to see your crochets.
my favorite was Apricot Holiday cookies, aka Porlos. It is a rich coffee cake with cinnamon and nuts cut into diamond shapes. very tasty!
my favorite recipe was my grandmother’s peanut brittle and meatloaf… It was my grandmother, my mother and myself, having the best time making peanut brittle for our church pot luck along with her meatloaf…. we spent hours talking and cooking having the best time and making the fondest memories
My favorite recipe is for homemade biscuits.
My favorite recipe would be my Mothers Homemade Biscuits. They are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. They cook up golden and lite. I have never in my life eaten a better biscuits! I remember the smell of them cooking when I got up of a morning. Eggs, Bacon (or sausage), homemade gravy and those desirable Biscuits! My mom cooked everything from scratch. No one could cook Bread like she could. To this day I made those biscuits and her homemade loaf bread and Parker House rolls. Everyone who ever ate her fried chicken said they had never eaten any like that. Crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. Of course growing up with those great meals, I was use to them and it is the standard I go by for the taste of foods. Thankfully, I was smart enough to get her to write down her recipes and I have Never regretted that decision! My family has enjoyed them thru the years. What great memories that outstanding cooking made in mine and others’ life!
My grandmother’s recipe was her old fashioned southern green apple dumplings. My mother was the only other person that I know that has ever made it until I did. I never knew of anywhere else down south nor up here in NJ who made it like her concoction. Awesome stuff. This was an awesome article & great fun to enter something from my roots. They would be proud of me!
Hi all,
One old time craft is making a long rope with an old wooden spool, four or five finishing nails and a small hook. Nowadays you can purchase something similar at WalMart. It looks like a bee and works very well.
I made one of these long ropes a couple of years ago and then sewed it together to make a toque for my granddaughter. She loved it and I think it looked very cute.
Flour tortillas, home made. My grandma never measured how much of a particular item she would put in her bowl to make the dough. When I would be outside playing and she had made a large stack of tortillas, she would yell out the back door and tell me to one. She would put butter on it and roll it up, the tortillas were always nice and hot. My friends would follow me home because they wanted one to. What a treat and on just one we would be satisfied. How I miss her tortillas!
My grandmas spice cake out of this world goodness
Making carmels and peanut brittle at Christmastime…
Making turkey and stuffing the old fashioned way, by scratch.
I have several favorites and am unable to pick just one. My favorites were my Mother’s Butterscotch Fudge, Persimmon Pudding (actually a pie made from persimmons I picked for her), Fried Chicken and Potato Salad. I’ve put many hours into finding a recipe for persimmon pudding and have yet to meet with success. As for the others, I’ve been unable to duplicate the recipes. I’ve not tried to make the butterscotch fudge, yet. Also, each of my Grandmothers made a dressing for holidays. One from North Carolina made a bread dressing which I’ve come close to duplicating and one from South Carolina made a rice dressing but I’ve been unable to duplicate at all. Again I’ve put hours into research trying to find recipes, but have been unable to find what I’m looking for. Anyway, whether I can make the dishes or not, I always remember “My Three Ladies” with fond memories and the best food I’ve ever had!
My Grandmother’s homemade Doughnuts and Sour Cream Twists. My mother makes homemade doughnuts, but they don’t compare and I have not had the Sour Cream Twists since I was young as my Grandmother has been deceased for many many years.
My favorite is Holiday candies made by my Mom. Every Christmas she would take a couple of days to make toffee, divinity, peanut brittle, and fudge. My absolute favorite was the toffee with no nuts! She always made a special batch with no nuts just for me 🙂
My mother made the best homemade Chicken and Dumplings. She usually prepared them early on Sunday morning from scratch and then cooked them in a large Dutch pot filled to the brim with her delectable recipe for our church’s homecoming celebrations or family reunions. If my family wanted to get even a morsel of her scrumptious dish, however, we would have to get in front of the line, because they went so quickly!
These were the good old days
My favorite old fashioned recipe is my mother’s homemade 50% whole wheat bread! The best comfort food ever!
My favorite old fashioned recipe is my mother’s raisin and date filled cookies.
Back on the farm over 55 years ago, when cholesterol wasn’t a concern; my Mom would make butter from the separated cream after milking the cow. Of course homemade ice cream from that fresh cream was always a favorite. The premiere ice cream establishments these days could not begin to be as rich as our homemade ice cream was.
I remember my Mother’s Persimmon Pudding (actually a pie), Butterscotch Fudge, Fried Chicken and Potato Salad; Grandmother’s Cornbread Dressing, Chicken and Dumplings, Pinto Beans and Biscuits; and other Grandmother’s Rice Dressing and Fruitcake (believe it or not). Unfortunately, I am unable, after hours of research, to find recipes for Persimmon Pudding, Chicken and Dumplings (like Grandma’s) and Rice Dressing. Can you offer any help. Sometimes, I want those dishes so badly, my mouth waters.
Buttermilk Chess Pie
My favorite old fashioned craft is piecing quilt tops. When we were kids, my mother would cut large squares of paper from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog. Then she would get out her bag of scraps, give us a needle and thread and have us kids sew strips to the paper making a square for a quilt. Then she would trim them to size and sew them together to make a quilt top Later she quilted them for our beds. With 6 kids she had to be very thrifty.
My old fashioned recipe is called Grandma Youngs Swedish rice pudding.
My grandma would always cook a big pot of chicken an dumplings when we were on the way to her house to visit they were so yummy. Mine just dont turn out the same as hers did.
I remember making chocolate chip cookies with my mom.
creamed corn casserole
My favorite old fashioned craft is Tatting with the needle not the shuttle. I love making up ladies hankies with tatted edging and delicate stitching on the hanky. When ever a friend or family had a baby girl I give them as a gift for the baby so she has something old and or blue for her wedding day
My is my great grandmother sand tarts she made them by the dozens and past them to all her family and friends. And we help her with them.
I love to learn new ways to do recipes and crafts.
My favorite old recipe is the Pound Cake made with Swans Cake Flour and real butter. It is delicious!
My favorite “old time” craft is tatting! I love the lace created with a shuttle or two and thread that I see form right before my eyes as I work the thread and shuttles back and forth in my hands.
I have a sourdough starter that is over 100 years old. I enjoy the whole process of making sourdough pancakes starting with feeding the starter the night before making the pancakes……..and, of course eating the delicious pancakes!!!
Beef Wellington
Favorite recipe Orange Kiss Me Cake. A 1950’s winner in Pillsbury Bake Off. Favorite oldtime craft – crocheting
My grandmother’s biscuits and Pig’s Picking Cake.
Strip dumplings passed along by my 90 year old mother-in-law and by strange coincidence,my Dad’s Mom..origins maybe Arkansas
my grandmother used to make tortillas out of mashed potatoes – very thin – you rolled them up with butter and jelly.
Growing up we ate a lot of beans and cornbread with smoked ham hocks. I still love them. Chopped onion is good with them.
I remember baking fresh homemade every saturday with my Grandma. She would always let me help knead the dough. She also would always save some of the bread dough to cut into little rectangles and fry for donuts.These were the best fresh donuts ever which you got to eat while waiting for the bread to bake.
My Mother was a very good cook and she could make bread and sweet rolls that would melt in your mouth. My brothers and sister used to fight over who got the thickest slice or the biggest roll. Mom never measured anything. She just knew how much of everything to use.
One of my favorite recipes is my grandma’s mayonnaise cake recipes. This chocolate cake is sprinkled with powdered sugar when it is done and absolutely mouthwatering when eaten warm right out of the oven.
My grandmother made the best dinner rolls. Her secret was using lard. I’ve never been able to exactly duplicate them, possible because she used to put the pan on her old radio for the dough to rise. LOL
My Grandmothers rice and carrot casserole or pudding. She brought it to every holiday dinner & I always requested it. Mine never quite taste the same, wondering if she left out a secret ingredient when she passed this recipe on.
I love recreating my grandmothers holiday pies and cookies
My mother made the best bread pudding from old steal bread. She would put meringue on top and brown for a few minutes, it was delicious. I wish I could see her making some right now in the kitchen.
Oh! My gramma made the best homemade Chicken Noodle soup, I remember coming home from school on a really, cold day, and she would be there waiting with a hot bowl of her homemade soup, served with her fresh, homemade bread! Wonderful! Memories! It wasn’t nun till I was grown that I found out that her chicken soup, rarely had chicken in it! She , just made broth, from chicken bones! Amazing!
Thanx, for letting me remember that again!
Chicken and dumplings is my all time favorite!
My favorite recipe when I was a child was Shepherds Pie. I have seen many make it but never as good as grandmas. Sautéed onions, cooked beef, layered with whole kernel corn and mashed potatoes, browned in the oven. If we had any, grandma would sometimes put shredded cheese on it and then brown it. What a treat!!!
My favorite old fashioned recipe is Grandma’s noodle soup – made from scratch egg noodles and broth – the best! My favorite old fashioned craft is from long ago bridal showers where we made a “bride” out of wooden clothespins and scraps of fabric and lace. Some of them were truly amazing!
My favorite old fashioned recipe is Custard Pie. My Mom made the best and I always asked for it for my birthday instead of cake.
Ever since I was little we used to have a dish that I still crave to this day. We always called it Stewed Tomatoes and Corn. We grew and canned our own tomatoes and made all kinds of them including homemade stewed tomatoes with peppers, onion and spices. We would take 1or 2 quart jars of the stewed tomatoes and heat them up, adding Italian seasonings, and garlic, either fresh minced or even just the powdered kind if no fresh was available, and cook for about 10 -15 minutes. Thicken it with a slurry of either corn starch or flour and water. Add about 1/2 cup sugar.and about a pound of corn, that we had cut off the cob and froze. Cook another 5 minutes or so to desired thickness, adjusting seasoning and sweetness as needed. We would eat this as a main dish some times spooning over noodles or even mashed potatoes. Sometimes just a bowl of it and bread and butter.
my mom every holiday made old fashion fudge, and raisin pie .
I remember old fashion pralines from my great aunts. They would bring them for every family gathering. We kids couldn’t wait for dessert so we could get some!
I love finding the older recipes. I collect recipes and cookbooks and this would be an absolutely lovely addition
My grandmother always loved to cook and bake, I expect that during her time that it was more a necessity then choice but it was something that she took great pride in doing. When I was little and not so little one of my favorite foods that she cooked was her Mayonnaise cake. I didn’t understand until later that it was actually mayo in the cake but it was delicious! It was moist and just melted in my mouth.To this day I make that cake and enjoy all the memories of my grandmother as I taste each delicious bite.
Banana pudding.
My favorite old recipe is chocolate mayonnaise cake with fudge frosting my mom and I used to make this for special occasions
My dad’s favorite dinner when I way little was tomato soup with cheese dumplings. Mom always made it so that one dumpling sank, because she liked the denser texture. Ingredients were cheap and available during and right after WW2.
Milk toast. My dad made it for us and I made it for my kids. It has alot of memory’s.
Bread pudding is my favorite recipe, I was making it before it became popular. My grandmother made it, she lived in the country and could not get to town often, she had bread, eggs milk and raisins, so that was one thing she could make. I learned from her and still do not use a recipe. I do add apples and on occasion chocolate chips. I am 77 years old and have been making it since I was a little girl, a long time. I occasionally will put a sauce on it, but that was never part of the original. I always thing of my Oma Sueltenfuss, yes, that was her name, we are of German heritage, when I make it. Thanks for the opportunity to say this. Now I am hungry for bread pudding.
My favorite old time memory was making buttered dumplings with my grandpa. I can still picture the pan with boiling water setting on the flame of the gas stove, being careful not to get burned while putting the spoon into the water. Good times
My favorite old fashioned recipe is my grandma’s no-bake cookies.
Quilting is more of an art than a craft to me, but sometimes it is classified as a craft. I have made several quilts and enjoyed making each one.
Old fashioned fudge recipe.
Tuna casserole that my mom use to make with potato chips
Macaroni and cheese is my favorite old time recipe–our version has been a favorite for several generations!
My fav old school Recipe came from
A school reunion cookbook that had a “save your own sugar fudge” recipe using condensed milk from the time of rationing
My favorite old-fashioned craft was stringing macaroni for a garland for the Christmas tree and gluing different types of pasta on paper to make a picture.
My favorite old time recipe is my grandma’ homemade chicken and egg noodles. It would take her all day to make the noodles. But, it was so worth the wait for her chicken and noodles. She would also make her homemade dinner rolls and mashed potatoes to go with it. That wonderful smell filled up the house and we couldn’t wait to dig in.
I remember my mom’s Tuna Noodle dinner she always added peas to it but I put cheap potato chips on top of it the last 10 minutes that it’s in the oven and it adds a great flavor.
Homemade raspberry pie with raspberries right out of her garden! Nothing like it…. no ice cream or whipped cream needed….
My Grandmother always made no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies when she knew we were coming for a visit. They’re still one of my favorites and so easy to make.
Went I was going up, I loved Grandma’s peanut butter cake. It was yellow cake with a peanut butter fudge icing, in between the layers was either grape jelly or more peanut fudge. Depending on her mood or what she had on hand.
I also loved my Mom’s banana pudding. There were both good reasons to go to the family reunion….lol
When my mom or dad made homemade chicken and dumplings in the pressure cooker, an we would come running when the pot started to whistle, cause that meant dinner was almost done, an those fluffy dumplings with the chicken gravy over them!!!! Nothing like it can ever be replaced out of a can!!!!
My mother-in-law taught me to crochet. I started when I was pregnant with my first child. I made a baby blanket. Forty years later and many blanket gifts later it is still my favorite thing to do to relax.
My favourite when growing up was rice pudding with raisins & cinnamon. Eaten either hot of cold, it was yummy.
My FAVORITE recipe of my youth…..Momma’s Bread!! It was heavenly coming home from school to the smell of FRESH baked bread. For dinner that night we always got the SPECIAL treat of fried bread served with farm fresh sausage and eggs!! Oh what memories!! I can smell it now!!!
When I was a child my only grandmother ran a restaurant/delicatessen in a large city. It was locally known for Friday fish frys and Sunday afternoon hot ham and rolls. My admiration for the love my grandmother incorporated into cooking made dishes all the more special. My particular favorite was old fashion rice pudding, steaming hot from the oven in an old Pyrex dish. A little dab of butter, milk and a sprinkling of cinnamon and my belly was content!
When I was a little girl we sometimes had buttered bread with molasses on top. We never felt like that was any less special then a steak dinner! It was always a grand presentation!
My Grandma’s pumpkin pie is my favorite “old fashioned” recipe.
How tastes, smells, and appearances of foods can awaken memories that stir so many emotions!
Mother always made fresh coconut cake with 7 minute frosting for Christmas accompanied by her thick, rich, and creamy boiled egg custard. Thoughts of the latter still brings smiles and sometimes a rumbly tummy! She would top our clear glasses filled with the delight with a dollop of vanilla flavored whipped cream and a big, red cherry…stem still attached!
If I became ill during the year, my go to comfort food was a cold glass of Mom’s boiled custard!
(I don’t have her recipe! So sorry that I don’t!)
Nothing is better than the recipes for Clam Pie and potato salad that were passed down in our family from our Grandmother.
My favorite old-fashioned recipe is a Butter Roll made with, of course, butter, nutmeg, sugar and cinnamon rolled in dough like a jelly roll. It tastes heavenly!
My favorite recipe was her spaghetti sauce and I’d give anything to have it one more time. I try every recipe I can find, but have never found the right one.
Pound cake, the kind that calls for a pound of butter, pound of flour and so on
Coconut cake made from scratch. With real hand grated coconut. Mother made this for my birthday each year.
My mother-in-laws waldorf salad. It isn’t a holiday meal without it.
I have two favorite recipes handed down from my grandmother: large rock fish stuffed with crabmeat topped with white sauce for Easter dinner and roasted cauliflower with cheese sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
My Grandmother’s cook Olga made wonderful Banbury Tarts which she would send me packed in a coffee can when I was away at school.
I remember when I was a child and ill my mother would make custard (from scratch) it was one of the best things about having to stay in bed for in the house; even my Dad looked forward to having someone ill in the house. And if we were VERY, VERY GOOD, Mom would make a custard pie.
My wonderful grandmas carrot cookies. Then recipe carried to my mom she’s made them for us all the time. The cookies had orange frosting.
I like making wreaths. 🙂
I remember my grandmother crocheting doll dresses and giving them to us three girls to play with. They were dresses that would fit a big Barbie today and that was back in the 40’s. My mother would display them on the mantle in the living room, she would not let us pay with them because she said they were too pretty to play with. I would stand by the mantle and look at them ,sometimes mama would see me looking at them and take one down and let me hold it, ( while she was there to make sure nothing happened to them). That was a very fond memory of my grandmother.
I will never forget my Mom making homemade banana bread. She would cook them in clean soup cans and when we got home from school the smell was amazing!!! We would each get one and smother it with butter and eat it for a warm snack. We lived in Minnesota so it was so comforting. I cook it once in awhile and it makes me feel like she’s still with me.
My Grandmother always made homemade fudge…chocolate, caramel and peanut butter. Boy that was the best fudge I have ever had in my life. I remember helping her make it all the time,now that she is gone I sure miss those times.
I.miss.my grandmas.German.chicken.and.dumplings.goose.and.dumplings.fresh.caught.chicken.or.goose.I.remember.making.the.noodles.by.scratch.cutting.them.drying.them..then.helping.get.the.meat.ready.to.boil.it.was.along.processes.but.worth.it.and.while.waiting.we.made.bread.jams.butters.hot.kitchen.but.worth.the.wait
My favorites food memory is the sausage balls and orange nut balls mama made every year for Christmas and Christmas only. No matter how hard we begged for them any other time of the year, they never appeared until Christmas. Now she spends her Christmas with the Lord but Christmas just isn’t Christmas until I’ve made sausage balls and orange nuts balls. And they still only appear at Christmas.
My favorite Old-Fashioned recipe is my grandmother’s Cranberry Salad.
My favorite memory was my mom’s homemade macaroni and cheese. She had a recipe that she never looked at and it always came out the same. “A pinch of this, a bit of that, and a little bit of this”, and that’s how it was made. Have no idea where the recipe is.
My favorite breakfast is ,”milk toast”…now I have my grandkids hooked on it too!
One my family has been enjoying for years is called Boston Dinner… stew meat, sliced potatoes, mushrooms, cream of mushroom soup and grated cheddar cheese . It is oh so good, especially on a cold winter night with hot rolls.
My favorite old-fashioned recipe is my grandma’s recipe for mashed potatoes and meatloaf. So good!
My favorite old fashioned craft is quilting. I’ve loved quilts since I was very little and was thrilled to read about Laura and Mary learning to quilt in the Little House books. I knew then that someday I too would learn to quilt…and I did!
My favorite recipe was my Aunt Thina’s Italian Almond paste cookies. she would put pine nuts on top.
My mother’s recipe for Potato Salad. The base is cooked with egg, vinegar, mustard, and sugar. Then you add mayo to it once it cools. I have never tasted any I like better! I don’t know if the recipe is one she found somewhere or just made up…but I LOVE it.
My father worked nights and often had dinner in the morning. I would sti and eat my breakfast with him. There were times he made warm rice and milk sprinkled with cinnamom. To this day i make mine in the microwave.
My all time favorite old recipe is Cornbread Dressing! Has been in the family for years and have taught many others how to make it Southern Style! Going to show my newly married Grand Daughter this Thanksgiving!
My grandmother, Nonna, lived with us. She made cobblers of all kinds and jelly rolls. She made her pastas from scratch as well as her sauces. She made cannoli for Christmas and baked lots of cookies. She let me help bake at holiday time. She taught me to knit and crochet too. I have happy memories of her.
My favorite was my great grandmother’s Dilly Beans.
Stringing popcorn and hollyberrrries for the Christmas tree garland, we (us kids) would all get into it, we also used to have our own Holly tree at one place we lived an old farm house. People would drive down our long driveway and ask to buy our holly. Special memory.
When summer arrived at our house it was too hot to stay in the house on the weekend so my family would put chairs out and sit under the trees where we had lots of shade and a cool breeze. My dad would bring out our ice cream freezer that he cranked by hand. My mother would be in the kitchen making the custard needed to make ice cream. Once she had finished, she would take the custard outside to pour into the freezer. That is when I would get excited because I knew not long from now my sister and I would get large bowls of throat numbing “frosty” ice cream. My sister and I would laugh and look at each other playing this game of seeing who could take the biggest bite of cold ice cream and hold it in our mouth until one of us swallowed and lost the game.. I miss the good old days and times where neighbors knew each other and were willing to help anyone in need regardless of the hour. Those were the best days of my life and I have a lifetime of memories to prove it!
My grandmother made the best bread pudding. It takes me back every time I see a recipe for bread pudding. Warm stuff both inside and out.
i can still imagine the sweet smell of the apple pie my mother used to bake. She had one of those new-fangeled “slicing machines” and put so many sliced apples in the pie, that it came out of the oven and it was five inches high, at least! It was soooo good and yummy it didn’t last too long!
My mother added slices of hot dogs to macaroni and cheese, and we called in “Pennyroni” because the hot dog slices looked like pennies.
My favorite memory is coming in from playing in the snow for lunch to a nice hot plate of creamed beef on toast. With my home made slippers from my grandmother warming up my feet. I never have had slippers as warm since grandma passed.
Carding, spinning and knitting. Along with knowing how to repair things and make do and mend. My grandmother instilled the thrifty gene in me.
Creamed tomatoes on toast! Old depression era recipe but still delicious! 🙂
My favorite recipe is my grandma’s homemade noodles. She made them by hand and completely from scratch. They were amazingly delicious!
One of my favorite childhood recipes was something we called “gooey buns.”
A mixture of chopped ham, chopped hard boiled eggs, cubes of Velveeta cheese, a little ketchup and mustard all mixed together and placed in a hot dog bun…then wrapped in foil and baked in the oven for about 10 minutes.
I am not sure if my Mom invented it to use up Easter leftovers or if she got the recipe somewhere else but we gobbled them down like crazy and I still make them for my kids at least once a month!
My favorite old recipe is potato candy, and my favorite craft is the granny square
My favorite old fashioned recipe is my great grandmother Banana Cream Pie! So delicious! Everything made from scratch even the pudding!
I REMEMBER GROWING AND HELPING MY GRANDMA MAKE HER DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE HOMADE BISICUIT PUDDING.WHEN I WAS HOME WITH HER. SHE ALWAYS MADE IT A SPECIAL TIME FOR US. I WAS RAISED IN A CHILDERNS HOME SO MY MEMORIES OF HOME ARE VERY PRECIOUS TO ME.
hermits
is a legacy from my sister Jeannette. she walked me through making them and today is a favorite at all family gatherings
Mt mothers recipe for cream pie. Many flavors can be added i.e. chocolate, coconut, raisin, butterscotch, caramel and on and on. Delicious!
My mothers recipe for cream pie. Many flavors can be added i.e. chocolate, coconut, raisin, butterscotch, caramel and on and on. Delicious!
homemade chicken and dumplings-what I call the all time comfort food who could resist the yummy chicken and fluffy dumplings-yum-yum!
My favorite old fashioned recipe is Butterscotch Pudding! My Grandmother used to make it for me when I was young, and I’d come to her house to visit. It’s rare that anyone thinks of Butterscotch anymore, yet it’s subtle buttery robust flavor is such an enjoyment no matter where it’s found on occasion! To this day–I’m thrilled when upon rare times, I see it on a menu, though it’s usually disappointingly too sweet or full of cornstarch…not the true recipe that was used and found nearly in every home in New England when I was a child! It’s my fondest memory, eating it while still a touch warm from Grandma’s old fashioned cast iron wood stove!
I would say there are many recipes that stand out. From my dads kale soup, my moms roast, my grandmothers fried chicken and dressing. However the one that I have yet to be able to duplicate was my grandmothers pound cake. I remember it had just a hint of lemon. She told me it had to be a certain brand flour and had to be sifted 6 times. Her attention to detail made this cake the most fluffy, moist, and oh so delicious treat ever.
My grandmother was so special–she made wonderful doll clothes, she created this molasses cake made from Cane Syrup, cooked the best fried chicken that could equal the fried chicken in the movie “Help,” she took me fishing in her boat on her pond after we dug up our own wrigglers, then we cleaned and fried those fish for lunch. Like others her banana pudding was simply the best, but perhaps her best old-fashioned recipe was what she called Sweet Potato Surprise. Cook then mash the potatoes, add whatever seasonings you want, then take a large marshmallow and roll it up inside the sweet potato mixture and fry in oil. Oh my goodness, what a magnificent flavor!!
a spicy nut and raisin filled bar
My grandmother made delicious caramel cake as a special treat and it was my favorite. I also remember her getting up every morning making a full breakfast with homemade biscuits, bacon, eggs, grits….the whole works. And that was before she went to work every day at the hometown newspaper.
My absolute favorite meal is one my grandmother used to make… somewhere between cabbage rolls and goulash is the best I can describe… Makes me smile just thinking about it… close second… blackberry cobbler… people dont do cobbler anymore… sad…. I still make handmade ornaments every year for friends and family… some with silks and beads, some cross stitched… makes the holidays that much more special.
Tomato dumplings. My aunt used brown sugar and nutmeg for the seasonings.
Chicken pot pie with rolled out and cut pot pie squares cooked in boiling broth. Also no bake cookies.
Chicken and Dumplings and homemade hot biscuits/cornbread. Purple hull peas oh so good!!!
<My favorite old time recipe is skillet baked chicken with potatoes.
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I love Teacakes…….my grandmother always made these and they were chewy and warm……wonderful memories
Oh my everything sounds wonderful. As a child I was able to spend many weekends and at least a week every summer with my paternal grandmother and grandfather. Grandma and I would go out to the back fence and pick freash raspberries and use them to make french pancakes. These are now called crapes at restaurants. Lol
we made them from scratch. Fried bacon greese in the cast iron pan. Mixe egg flour and milk. Pour into the pan flip after 2 mins then place on plate 2 mins later. Lay raspberries and home made whipped cream in middle and roll it up into a tube. Them sprinkle powered suger. I always added a line of home made maple syrup on top ( warmed)!!! Wow was it great. Nothing compared to these!! I make them one Sunday morning every month for my grandchildren when they come to visit or if we go visit all of them.
I have also taught my eldest grandson age 8 how to make them. 😉 One day every month I’m back on the farm! In memmmemory anyway.
My grandmother taught me to weave potholders on a small loom using loops of cotton. We spent many summers weaving potholders.
My mom made a chocolate chip date cake often while we were growing up. There were nine of us kids and the cake recipe was for a 9 x 13 inch pan. It was delicious and seemed a bit magical. Boiling water was poured over dates with baking soda and cooled, and the measurements and ingredients were just a little unusual to us. The inside was moist and the topping was delicious too, because it was a mixture of chopped nuts, sugar, and chocolate chips. I recently found the recipe and made it a for a birthday cake! Good memories and a tasty, old-fashioned treat for us!
My grandmother always had pink and white tapioca for Christmas and home made beef and noodles for Christmas. all of the Grandkids looked forward to this each year. Miss her cooking to this day.
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My favorite recipes are homemade no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies and chicken and dressing.
My favorite old time meal was Chicken Paprikash. My parents were Hungarian and on Sundays, my mom would make this and it was divine!!
Baked Alaska! Need I say more?!
My favorite memories are of my Grandmother’s chicken and dumplings and her wonderful yellow cake with chocolate icing. I have the recipes but can’t duplicate them since she had her own chickens and eggs. What a difference they make in her recipes.
A Lady Baltimore Cake. My Grandmother made it and her daughter my Aunt made it. Their recipes have been lost so it has been a long time and the recipes I have come across aren’t the same I will keep searching and trying.
Carrot Cake
My favorite recipe is my great grandmothers homemade chili! Its the most warming, fantastic thing i have ever had!!
My grandma used to make figs in sugar syrup,cook em and let em boil for a while, I mean, a while..until tender and sweet, serve with fresh white cheese. She used to make a huge pot, I remember us waiting and waiting (for ever) until the figs were done and the syrup was right on the dot. We had figs for a week. Yumly memories.
Tomato Preserves. My Grandmother canned tomato preserves each year from tomatoes out of her massive garden.
My grandmother’s homemade noodles
My mom made molasses sugar cookies. We all loved them. In the fall she would make the cookies in balls ,bake them and decorate them with orange frosting into jack o lanterns. Boy were they good.
My grandmother made raisin filled cookies. They were a lot of work,but oh so tasty!
I have fond memories of my mother making chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal cookies–so delicious!
My favoirte old time dinner is the first one I made for my husband after we were married- tuna noodle casserole topped with cornflakes! And i forget to add the tuna after i assembled it and put the cornflakes on top! so here I was , poking holes in the casserole to add the tuna!! oh the good old days!!!
I really miss my Grandma’s ‘Oatmeal, raisin, chocolate chip cookies (or anything else she made). A few of us have some of her recipes, but they never turn out like hers did. Of course, all of her measurements were approximate.
I mostly remember my mother making “Lizzies” at Christmas time!
I remember my grandmother making each one of her grandchildren a t v cushion out of scrap upholstery that she got from the Minnesota Woolen man that came to your door selling clothing and other items for the home décor. They were wonderful as they slide across the floor on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons. And best of all was spending a nite at her home for her home made yankee pot roast and baking powder biscuits. And let me not forget the apple pie!
One of my favorite memories is mom and I making cinnamon rolls. Mom always made the dough but I buttered and sugared and spread the cinnamon. We rolled them up and cut the rolls with thread, and when they came out of the oven it was nirvana, (I can almost smell them right now), there were never any left overs. A little butter melted on top and dig in. Wonderful!
fried chicken and mashed potatos
My favorite recipe was Sunday gravy and meatballs at my Aunt’s house. All the sisters (we’re Italian) were in the kitchen around, what i always thought, was the biggest pot of gravy for our dinner. There was never a shortage of food.
My favorite childhood memory is “blackberry mush.” During the summer when school was out my mother, my sisters and I, would go to the edge of the woods and pick wild blackberries and my mom would make us blackberry mush. She also made blackberry jam. One fun part was putting on long sleeve shirts and pants tucked into our socks to keep the ticks off and to protect us from the briars. We were a sight to see! The other fun part was eating the berries as we picked them! MMMMM,
My favorite is my Gran’s Cresent cookies. Even tho everyone has her recipe, and my husband is a Baker by trade, no one can make them like she did, they melted in your mouth. Of course, I am sure it was the love from her that made them special.
Special memories of my dear Mother singing Irish songs, making Irish Stew and gingerbread on a Saturday Morning bring back special, warm memories that are dear to my heart.
My mom’s eggplant casserole. She was raised on a farm in El Centro, CA, near the Mexican border. She will be 100 on October 1!
My favorite old fashioned recipe is probably just a good ole’ pot roast. 🙂
My Mother’s home made dinner rolls. Out of this world,I still cant get them like her hers.
My favorite memory is my mother’s home made ravioli. She made them from scratch, and they were so delicious I never got tired of eating them. My sisters and I always helped her by crimping the edges by hand. The dough was delicate and tender, and the filling never came out.
My Grandmother’s meatloaf. Love it. Also my favorite old time craft is Crocheting. I love Crocheting doilies. This was taught to me by my lovely Grandmother.
I remember as a child my mother made a tomato pie, and no one knows what I am talking about it was sweet.
My favorite old fashioned recipe is Mincemeat cookies. My mom always made these at Christmas and they were my favorites. We always took them to the Christmas parties at church and at school. It’s getting hard to find the boxed mincemeat and the mincemeat in a jar just doesn’t make the same cookie!
Growing up in the 50’s my Mom and grandmothers still believed that every girl should know how to create beautiful needlearts. They taught me to embroider, crochet, quilt, and so on. I can remember that even my Dad would get into the embroidery, helping Mom make beautiful embroidered tablecloths and dresser scarves. I continue to do these crafts today, loving handmade items best. I’ve taught what I know to my neices who are interested and even taught my son a little about quilting. Can’t wait to see what vintage goodies you come up with.
I remember going over to my grandma’s house on Christmas Day and all my cousins would be there to. Grandma would have her special butterscotch lace cookies on a tray. That was the only time she made them. I guess that’s why they were so special to us. Her parents were from Germany and she used her mother’s recipe. I wish I had that recipe. Just dreaming about those cookies bring back the warm fuzzies for my grandma.
My Grandmother started teaching me to sew when I was about 3, I’m now 66 and haven’t stopped sewing or learning She gave me the ability to have wonderful clothes and accessories, sew for my family and earn a living.
I like to make my grandma’s peanut butter cookies-I thought hers was the best!!!
Due to a medical issues with me, my mother moved in with me to help out. I knew she liked these so for last Christmas I got her the test off seasons she needed. We then ended up watching the together. She even re-started watching them with me.We both bonded and did a family night of it to wind down the evening. And I am a Doctor Who fan too. So this was great to see some characters from both shows and seeing some “rooms” in both shows. Thank you.
I’ve always been partial to my Pennsylvania Dutch grandmother’s Shoo-Fly Pie. Having tried to duplicate it myself many times and sampling offerings at restaurants across the country, I finally concluded, as have others here, that it’s a grandmother’s love that makes a dish so special!
I love corn bread with vidalia onions
I remember spareribs, sauerkraut, and pork and beans, all cooked together. Sound a little strange, but YUM
My favorite old fashioned recipe is Chicken and Dumplings!
More memory than recipe, during the great depression, we didn’t have much meat. So we always looked forward to Mondays. Wash day, and would come in,especially in the winter, to a huge pot of butter beans and ham hocks with fresh corn bread. It was so warming and comforting.When anyone in the family got sick, Mom would make a big pot of potato soup with diced potatoes and onions in chicken broth. Even today that is my go to when ever anyone is feeling ill, or blue.
Good old fashioned home-made lemon pie made from scratch!
wow – this cookbook would be very interesting as I am a history buff and my maternal family upline is from British royalty. This would be a lovely addition to our family!
I would have to say Tatting. It seems to have become a lost art. I remember tatted dainty hankies and glove rims.
A bowl of baby pastina with a little bit of butter, butterscotch sundaes, lemon (or lime) ice… ahhh!
Two favorites–meatloaf & peanut brittle
Going to Tia Ramona’s house to visit was my favorite outting….i knew she’d have Buttermilk Pie. She’d take out these vintage small plates with tiny little flowers and serve us some pie. I ‘d look over to my father and you’d see a smile from ear to ear. “me encanta” he’d say.
I recently turn 60! How did I get so old? My favorite memory is my mother making biscuits. To this day I can not do it like her. She never measured anything but they always turned out wonderful. My dad would often ask for them. I was one of five kids and we love them with home made butter and jam or fresh honey.
Wanda, you just keep blinking those eyes, and the time flies by. i just turned 66 and i don’t feel any different than when i was 21. i look different but don’t feel any different. Blink.
My Mother was the best cook ever. she passed away at 60 years old. I miss her everyday and can still picture her cooking everyday. My favorite old time recipe would have to be her hot fudge pudding cake. YUM! everything she made was a treat but that sticks out with homemade fresh whipped cream on top. my favorite craft was yo-yo quilts. my mom and I would make yo-yo’s for hours and hours. the one thing she never got a chance to teach me was knitting. I wish she had. I did keep all her cookbooks when she passed away which was maybe 50 of them. I now have collected over 1200! reminds me of my mom what can I say.
I love making our family’s version of Haggis using a turkey and stuffing it with oatmeal, onions, butter and the pulverized liver…. anxious for Thanksgiving already!!
i loved my grandma’s old fashioned biscuits and gravy…… Favorite craft??? Quilting with the elder ladies….. Love handmade quilts….. 🙂
I love the cakes desserts that revert ton days long but. I’ll Pin and try to make at least one more recipe. Well I say “I’ll” see a recipe for receipts of teas served yesterday year. I will Pin anything that looks yummy and has edible flowers, predominately Lavender or rose” ingredients. The aromas remind of another lifetime, where things were lovely, dainty and delicious, Tea Times in late afternoon with friends to discuss ” lady” things, artwork, ebpntertainnent Thank you for your time and receipes, I really must sleep now, more input tomorrow.
I like old fashioned buttermilk pie.
i remember playing with gymp. i never did figure out how to make anything but a key holder.
My aunt Mitzi’s Poppyseed Streusel Cake.. From out of this world! A yeast dough on a sheet topped with a ground up poppyseed, raisin, sugar and vanilla mixture, covered with streusel.
I miss my grandma’s “Heavenly Hash” made from cooked white rice, cherries, pineapple and whipped cream. It was heavenly!
Moms chicken pot pie with home made noodles !!! The best ever always served with home made cole slaw and hot out of oven bread !!!
Remembering my grandmother brings warm loving thoughts of entering her home and there always being my favorite food made just for me. She made me spinach pie made with filo dough, spinach, and feta cheese.
To this day it’s my favorite meal but now I make it myself. I loved d my grandmother and I’m thankful for the love she showed me of food.
new england boiled dinner, ham with boiled veggies and taters
Nothing could beat my Aunt Nora’s Pecan Pie!
When it was wash day when we lived at home with Mom, we either had chili or stew. It was easy to put on the stove and do the washing and not worry about the lunch. I still love stew. In fact sometimes I buy a cheaper cut of a steak and cut up my own stew meat, it is better than buying ready cut up stew meat. We never had that when we were young. Mom made the best stew, I try to make it good too, I usually add some dry gravy mix into it to give it some richness, with the veggies and all it always reminds me of home, I am hungry for it right now. It is really great with cornbread. Yum.
i miss my granny’s puff-ups. she would make a dough then cut into all kinds of shapes. then she would fry them up. they were so good just to stuff with anything we had at home
Casseroles and meat loaf come to mind first. But, my mom used to make a chicken pot pie that was delicious, and she canned almost all of her vegetables.
Blue Damson plum jam. The tree was in Grandma’s backyard.
Helping my mom make rock candy on a string for her 5 sons…!
My favorite old time recipe would be stuffed cabbage or “pigs in the blanket.”
favorite is my grandmother’s recipe for Irish Soda bread which my mom makes every year- I really need to try making it myself one of these days!
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My favorite would be hashe’ (spelling) and noodles. It was a cheap easy meal to make, hamburger in brown gravy, add diced onion and salt and pepper, add cooked elbow macaroni. She made this before Hamburger Helper hit the shelves.
My favorite recipe is pound cake
We love chicken & Dumplings and I like to do embroidery
My favorite recipes would have to be Macaroni & Cheese and Chocolate Chip Cookies from my grandmother. Both were so good in the fall & winter months. Thank you for the giveaway!
Pot Roast is my fave!
Turkey Rolls. They were thinly sliced lunch meat turkey rolled around stuffing.. and smothered in homemade gravy.
I love recipes for old fashioned bicuists.
I like to make Christmas ornaments.
My mom always made jello and tuna fish sandwiches for us in the 40’s for Sunday night suppers. We just loved them.
My favorite old fashioned recipe is my Great Grandmothers rice pudding, you actually bake it in the oven and it’s so good.
My favorite old time craft is to crochet things
I love making my great grandma’s Kringla (Norwegian cookie) recipe best of all, especially during Christmas time! Thank you so much for this awesome giveaway!
my mom’s cheesecake recipe
my grandma’s beef stew with the world’s best gravy!
My favorite was my grandmas fried chicken and corn bread.
My favorite old-fashioned recipe is the one for my mother’s rolls. This recipe is passed down from mother to daughter in our family and has been around a long time. The first step is to boil the milk. The recipe dates back to before pasteurization. Nevertheless, I still boil the milk!
Pot Roast is my favorite.
My favorite old fashioned recipe is Meat Pie – just meat (whatever is on sale!) spices and potatoes baked in a pie crust.
My grandma’s recipe for Greek cookies. I love them.
My favorite old time recipe is for flapjacks.
My favorite recipe would be my mothers cream puffs she made at Christmas 🙂
Reading some of the entries, I remembered my grandma’s home made bread pudding with lemon sauce also homemade blueberry pie.She was a fantastic cook, so I enjoyed whatever she made. Thank you for a chance for winning the Downtown Abbey cook book
My grandmother’s matzo ball soup
Springerle cookies. My mom has made these cookies at Christmas my whole life, currently 52 years. That sometimes soft sometimes hard anise cookie, depending on how the recipe came out, is the quintessential Christmas item. My family can’t get enough of them and they usually disappear within days. My mom refuses to share her recipe or loan out her Springerle rolling pin.
My grandmother’s chocolate pie recipe. She’s been gone almost 10 years now but every time I make it, it brings back such great memories. I laminates her handwritten recipe on a piece of beautiful notepaper with her name embossed on it – I love seeing her handwriting.
My favorite recipes are my grandmother’s potato bread and my Mother’s beef stew. Both are comfort foods. When grandmom made the bread I could eat a whole loaf myself when it was warm right out of the oven. Those were the days.
My Grandma’s Pfeffernusse cookies. They were the best!
My favorite is old fashioned cheesecake.
I would like to make peanut brittle.
I would like to make candied oranges.
I like Lobster Thermidor.
I make my grandmothers buttermilk biscuits using her recipe.
My fave is my grandmother’s sour cream pound cake. I still make it for Christmas gifts, and my grown children ask for it for their birthdays.
My favorite recipe is old fashion meatloaf and my very favorite old time craft is making YoYos. YoYos have been around for years and years and you can embellish just about anything with them. They a take so little time as well as using your scraps materials up for something pretty. I am quite sure Downtown Abbey had YoYos on their clothing designs.
Creamed tuna and peas on toast–my raised in the Depression mother used to make it to stretch the food budget.
I miss the smells coming from my grandmother and mothers kitchen when they were baking. O so good. Lucky they taught me how to bake. Everything is so much better fresh and home made.
My favorite old time favorite is beef pot roast with potatoes, carrots, onion and celery. Then to top it off with an homemade beef gravy from the renderings of the pot roast. What I liked served with it is homemade dinner rolls, beets, garden salad and corn on the cob. Sometimes we will fix rice and serve the pot roast dinner over rice.
My 89 yr old mothers boiled salted pork dinners. My oh my, that was sooooo gooood! just thinking about it makes my blood pressure go up. lol
We ate well and played outside enough to burn off any extra calories back then. Those were the days!
My dad made the best Tomato Soup Cake and my mom made all kinds of soups. She made a lot of food with just a few things. She fed a family of five kids and usually a few of our friends. She still is an amazing cook. Love going to mom’s place for a meal or a good cup of tea!!
My best memories are baking boiled raison cake, one from the war era that didn’t use eggs, or oil..but was moist, chocolatey and delish! Or home baked bread or cinnamon rolls..What I wouldn’t give to have one of my Mom’s Cinnamon Rolls today. Yummy!
My Grandpap’s Thanksgiving stuffing. I’ll never forget waking up each year on Thanksgiving morning, hearing him and my mom in the kitchen laughing and talking and making his homemade stuffing. I was blessed to enjoy both…………..the sound of their laughter and the delicious stuffing!
I like to serve Mac & Cheese to family and friends. This is my favorite recipe to make.
My mom made a coconut cake every Christmas–real coconut we cracked open & grated the coconut. We used the milk to pour on top of the cake so it absorbed into the cake. She made a homemade yellow cake and she made a homemade white frosting & added in the fresh coconut into the frosting. That was delicious!
The most ‘old fashioned’ crafing I do is making home made soap and candles.
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