Recipes

[On It]

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?

[tends2dogs]

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. 

[Bookplate]

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@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. 

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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!

[Scooby Doo]

@tends2dogs 

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

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

[Kachina624]

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@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. 

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@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.

[Carmie]

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.

[ECBG]

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

[tends2dogs]

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@Bookplate wrote:

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@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. 

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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!

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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.

[tends2dogs]

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@Scooby Doo wrote:

@tends2dogs 

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

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

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

[tends2dogs]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@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. 

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@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.

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@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.