topic Re: Blast from the Past in Recipes

Blast from the Past

On It — Mon, 29 May 2023 15:53:07 GMT

I was revisiting old recipe boxes. One yeast dinner roll recipe called for "good quality lard." Another was Pump-can Bread. Pumpkin bread was baked in one pound coffee cans. (My MIL gave this to neighbors at Christmas.) Many called for a can of something which was indicated by number (#3, etc.) instead of ounces or pounds.

Do you have any recipes that have been made challenging by the passage of time?

Re: Blast from the Past

tends2dogs — Mon, 29 May 2023 16:27:58 GMT

My MIL also had a recipe that was baked in a coffee can. It was called Suet Pudding, but it was breadlike. It was SO moist and she served it with a warm lemon glaze that she poured over it when she served it. I wish I had both of those recipes.

Fun thread. I hope more respond.

Re: Blast from the Past

Bookplate — Mon, 29 May 2023 17:31:21 GMT

@tends2dogs wrote:
My MIL also had a recipe that was baked in a coffee can. It was called Suet Pudding, but it was breadlike. It was SO moist and she served it with a warm lemon glaze that she poured over it when she served it. I wish I had both of those recipes.

Fun thread. I hope more respond.

I remember my grandmother buying suet at the butcher's in maybe the late 1950's. Nowadays good luck finding a butcher at all! Suet pudding is an old, popular English dessert.

I also remember packages of lard in the supermarket. Lard made a great piecrust. Assuming one could take the cholesterol!

Re: Blast from the Past

Scooby Doo — Mon, 29 May 2023 17:34:31 GMT

@tends2dogs

I've made this at Christmas and it's good.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/79348/old-fashioned-carrot-pudding/

Re: Blast from the Past

Kachina624 — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:54:57 GMT

@tends2dogs wrote:
My MIL also had a recipe that was baked in a coffee can. It was called Suet Pudding, but it was breadlike. It was SO moist and she served it with a warm lemon glaze that she poured over it when she served it. I wish I had both of those recipes.

Fun thread. I hope more respond.

@tends2dogs My mother made that too but quit when she became conscious of saturated fats. It was so good. Like once a year at Christmas was going to kill us.

Now I won't make or eat Biscochitos, New Mexico's official cookie, because they're made of lard.

Re: Blast from the Past

Carmie — Mon, 29 May 2023 19:57:37 GMT

Contrary to popular belief, good pure lard from free range pigs is better for your health than butter, margarine or crisco.

It is making a come-back since the " bad for your heart" myths have been debunked.

I have many recipes that call for a handful of this and a coffee cup of that. My family did not use too many written recipes, they were passed from mother to children by watching.

The written ones for baked goods are vague. Many were mixed on the table, not in a bowl. You had to have a feel for the dough..adding ingredients until it was the right consistency or tasted good.

I have seen the coffee can recipes, but my family nor I have never made any. My mother never owned a cookbook.

Re: Blast from the Past

ECBG — Mon, 29 May 2023 20:06:00 GMT

Years ago, I remember a a cake being cooked in a coffee can. I don't recall ever tasting it.

Re: Blast from the Past

tends2dogs — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:21:54 GMT

@Bookplate wrote:

@tends2dogs wrote:
My MIL also had a recipe that was baked in a coffee can. It was called Suet Pudding, but it was breadlike. It was SO moist and she served it with a warm lemon glaze that she poured over it when she served it. I wish I had both of those recipes.

Fun thread. I hope more respond.

I remember my grandmother buying suet at the butcher's in maybe the late 1950's. Nowadays good luck finding a butcher at all! Suet pudding is an old, popular English dessert.
I also remember packages of lard in the supermarket. Lard made a great piecrust. Assuming one could take the cholesterol!

I doubt people thought about cholesterol in the 50's. They used to eat bacon alot and kept the grease to fry the eggs in. YUM Popcorn popped in the grease was good, too.

Re: Blast from the Past

tends2dogs — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:24:49 GMT

@Scooby Doo wrote:
@tends2dogs
I've made this at Christmas and it's good.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/79348/old-fashioned-carrot-pudding/

I bookmarked this! I am pretty sure this is the real deal. Thanks so much, @Scooby Doo !

Re: Blast from the Past

tends2dogs — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:26:32 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@tends2dogs wrote:
My MIL also had a recipe that was baked in a coffee can. It was called Suet Pudding, but it was breadlike. It was SO moist and she served it with a warm lemon glaze that she poured over it when she served it. I wish I had both of those recipes.

Fun thread. I hope more respond.
@tends2dogs My mother made that too but quit when she became conscious of saturated fats. It was so good. Like once a year at Christmas was going to kill us.

Now I won't make or eat Biscochitos, New Mexico's official cookie, because they're made of lard.

@Kachina624 Once or twice a year won't kill you to eat the Biscochitos either....... LOL I have to look up what these are. I have never heard of them.

Re: Blast from the Past

tends2dogs — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:27:50 GMT

@Carmie wrote:
Contrary to popular belief, good pure lard from free range pigs is better for your health than butter, margarine or crisco.

It is making a come-back since the " bad for your heart" myths have been debunked.

I have many recipes that call for a handful of this and a coffee cup of that. My family did not use too many written recipes, they were passed from mother to children by watching.

The written ones for baked goods are vague. Many were mixed on the table, not in a bowl. You had to have a feel for the dough..adding ingredients until it was the right consistency or tasted good.

I have seen the coffee can recipes, but my family nor I have never made any. My mother never owned a cookbook.

But I bet she was a wonderful cook!

Re: Blast from the Past

tends2dogs — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:30:19 GMT

@Kachina624 I looked them up. Are they dry? I think they would be good with some sort of icing..........what the heck...

Re: Blast from the Past

Sooner — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:34:35 GMT

My mom was the very low-fat cooking queen in the late 50's and 60's. Fried food almost never, no grease kept or used. She used corn and vegetable oil, and butter was used in cake frosting, but that's about it. Not much cheese in cooking either, although a little cheese on a cracker was ok!

Re: Blast from the Past

lynnie61 — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:08:21 GMT

My mom made her delicious homemade bread from the "feel" of the dough. I wish I had her recipe or watched and learned. Best homemade rolls made bread almost every Friday of the year. The best. Sometimes, especially in the winter, THAT may have been dinner. A cup of soup and a couple homemade rolls. She was a great cook, but the bread and her fudge was the best.

Re: Blast from the Past

AuntG — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:19:37 GMT

I'm not sure why this was done but I observed it many times. When we'd get a side of beef, it was wrapped in white butcher's paper. For some reason, my great aunt would wipe the top of the wood stove with that paper. Maybe she was cleaning the stovetop with the waxy side of the paper.

Re: Blast from the Past

KBEANS — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:25:50 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
Years ago, I remember a a cake being cooked in a coffee can. I don't recall ever tasting it.

Yes, @ECBG My mother baked Babka in a coffee can. It always came out great with a big fluff top. Delicious.

Re: Blast from the Past

Kachina624 — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:40:04 GMT

@tends2dogs wrote:
@Kachina624 I looked them up. Are they dry? I think they would be good with some sort of icing..........what the heck...

@tends2dogs They're coated with a sugar/cinnamon mixture. They're very rich, what I'd call "short" due to the lard.

Re: Blast from the Past

chrystaltree — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 04:28:48 GMT

I'm sure I do. I remember my Nana and her sister made Brown Bread that was baked in coffee cans.

Re: Blast from the Past

chrystaltree — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 04:34:45 GMT

@tends2dogs wrote:
My MIL also had a recipe that was baked in a coffee can. It was called Suet Pudding, but it was breadlike. It was SO moist and she served it with a warm lemon glaze that she poured over it when she served it. I wish I had both of those recipes.

Fun thread. I hope more respond.

Takes me back to my childhood. We called it Christmas pudding. I think we only had it in December. It was soft, moist but firm and my grandmother served it warm with a hard sauce or a run sauce.

Re: Blast from the Past

KatieB — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 18:18:27 GMT

@On It Yes, I have a recipe for the best fudge I've ever had and the recipe calls for 3 small packages of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate morsels. I don't know the number of ounces in a small package. This recipe is from the 1970's. Would it be 6 oz for the small packages back then?

I've made the recipe before but again that was in the 1970's.