If anyone is looking for a classic recipe

[Marthe48]

I would be glad to go through the old cookbooks I have and if I find a recipe, post it here.

I have my Mom's and Grandmother's cookbooks, plus the ones I've picked up over the years. We used to go to auctions, and I always seemed to end up with the contents of the kitchen drawer where some fabulous cook put her recipes, clipped, written out, and otherwise saved. I think one of the oddest things I got that way was a notebook which had belonged to the wife of one of the local undertakers. The book is full of cooking recipes and also poems, sayings, and sentiments used at funerals. Quite a combination.

Anyway, this would be a good way to fill time and maybe help find long-lost recipes.

[Squinch]

1. Nice. Thank you.

[we can do it]

2. Lemon Dream Bars

[Marthe48]

7. I have lemon bar recipes

One calls for powdered sugar in the crust, the other calls for flour.

I have 2 versions of the powdered sugar crust, one for an 8 x 8 pan, which I've made, and the other is for a 9 x 13 pan. The recipe I made was really good, and one of my friends asked for the recipe.

Neither recipe is called lemon dream bars. I googled that name and got a lot of hits.

If you want to let me know if any of the ones I have sound interesting, I'll type them up.

[we can do it]

12. ❤️I'm getting up super early so I'll check back after work.

[Marthe48]

13. okay Hope I come across the one you want :)

n/t

[we can do it]

16. 🥰

[Jane Austin]

4. I used to make a sausage patty and wild and long grain rice casserole.

It was so good, but I can't remember it precisely. I know there was mushroom soup in it.

Do you maybe have one like that?

Thanks so much!

[Marthe48]

8. I've got a vintage Campbell's soup recipe book

in the basement. I wonder if it might be in there?

[Marthe48]

25. I googled the ingredients

and got this recipe. I will look in the basement tomorrow for the soup cookbook. Please let me know if this recipe is anywhere close to what you remember.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/sausage-and-wild-rice-casserole/

[Jane Austin]

30. This is very much like the one I made - except for the cheese.

I can't imagine it with cheese, but I will make it without first.

Thank you so very much!

I really appreciate what you did. And I even have Google myself.

[Marthe48]

31. I didn't run across the Campbell's soup cookbook

I'm watching my grand kids today, but have this on the list for the weekend . I think people put cheese on just everything.

[Jane Austin]

32. Usually, I do too.

I just can't think of this with cheese.

Thank you so much for your efforts.

[Marthe48]

33. I found the Campbell's soup recipe book

I didn't find a sausage, wild rice, rice and mushroom soup recipe in it.

[Jane Austin]

34. OK, thanks for looking.

I think the first one will do perfectly!

Thanks again.

[magicarpet]

5. Well,.. aren't you just the sweetest thing...... ?

[Lochloosa]

6. If you could find a recipe for fried okra like my grandmother made...

It was like popcorn, almost no breading, cooked dark. It's hard to describe but damn.

[Marthe48]

11. That sounds interesting

I love okra. I'll see what I can come up with.

[Lochloosa]

19. I've tried for years to duplicate it. I was a kid when she passed.

I think Crisco was a part of the secret. And a cast iron pan

[Marthe48]

23. Here is okra fried in Crisco

The recipe sounds like it has minimal batter or coating. I googled this one as well. Most of my cook books aren't southern, but if this recipe I found online isn't what you wanted, I will keep looking. Please let me know if it is close.



http://leavingtherut.com/real-southern-fried-okra/

[Lars39]

24. That's the way my husband's grandmother

cooked it. She was always in a hurry, cooking on high.
She just sliced the okra while heating iron skillet. Added it to the oil, covered it with cornmeal.
She’d put a lid over maybe 3/4 of the skillet. And yes, it does taste like popcorn.

[Marthe48]

9. I would look for the Julekake recipe

I think we talked about Scandinavian recipes at Christmas 2 years ago in a post about Christmas cookies. I think you mentioned it then. I have a friend whose family is Norwegian, and I have good friends in Sweden I could ask. Maybe I could find something for you to compare your family recipe to

[cate94]

10. Fannie farmer I think 1918 publication!

My grandma’s cookbook. It was so good my dog ate it. Seriously. There was a recipe in there for beef stroganoff I used for many years, but I’ve forgotten it. That dog was early 1980- 1995. Been a while....

[Marthe48]

15. lol

I've got recipe books and pamphlets from that era, not sure I've got a Fannie Farmer. Food seems to go through fads, so maybe we'll get lucky and find something similar.

[Marthe48]

27. Here is a recipe

I have looked through dozens of cookbooks since yesterday and had no luck. I Googled for a recipe and these came up. I don't know if Myra's Cookbook updated the recipe in the link below, but it does say it is from Fannie Farmer's cookbook:

https://www.familycookbookproject.com/recipe/2927075/beef-stroganoff.html


This recipe for Beef Stroganoff, by Fannie Farmer cookbook, is from Myra's Cookbook, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!

Contributor:
Fannie Farmer cookbook
Category:
Main Courses: Beef, Pork and Lamb
Ingredients:
2 pounds beef tenderloin or sirloin

2 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon chopped onions
small container of sour cream
fresh or canned mushroom tops(1/2 pound)

Directions:
For less expensive version, use round steak and cook it slowly about 20 minutes, so it will be tender before adding the mushrooms and cream. But made with tenderloin, the meat is tender after only a brief cooking and is still pink and rare when served.
Cut in strips about 1 by 21/2 inches 2 pounds beef tenderloin or sirloin. Melt in a hevy frying pan 2 tablespoons butter add 1/2 cup minced onion. Cook and stir until the onion is yellow. Add the beef. Cook quickly about 5 minutes, turning the meat to brown on all sides. set aside.
Melt 2 tablespoon butter. Slice into it the caps of mushrooms. Cook and stir 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.(add a trace of nutmeg if desired). Add to the beef. Add 1/2 pint sour cream. Warm quickly. Season delicately to taste.
Number Of Servings:
6-8 people
Preparation Time:
45 minutes

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This is a link to a Toledo Blade article: https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/food/2011/02/22/Head1-Head1-Head1-Head1/stories/201102220001

Beef Stroganoff
6 tablespoons butter (¾ stick), divided
1½ cups finely chopped onions
1½ pounds mushrooms, sliced
6 tablespoons flour
3½ pounds round steak, cut into strips
3 cups beef broth
1½ teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
6 tablespoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1½ cups cream
¾ cup sour cream

Melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat and sauté onions until soft and translucent. Remove and set aside. Melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat and sauté mushrooms until they start to brown, about 3-5 minutes.

Remove and set aside. Put flour and beef in a bag and shake vigorously to lightly coat the meat. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat and brown the beef strips. Do this in batches, if necessary. Add broth, salt, mustard, tomato paste, and reserved onions, and deglaze the pan (use a spatula to scrape up any brown bits that may be stuck to the pan). Cover, turn the heat down to low, and simmer gently until the beef is tender, 1½ hours. Stir in Worcestershire sauce, cream, sour cream, and reserved mushrooms. Serve over cooked egg noodles or rice.

Yield: 10-12 servings
Source: Adapted from 52 Favorites: A Recipe for Each Week in the Year, by Mary Alice Powell, from a recipe by Mrs. John Buchman

[cate94]

28. Omg!

Thank you so much!! I’m sure this is it. I’m looking forward tp7 trying to make it again! You ar awesome. 😊

[Marthe48]

29. I hope it is.

One recipe makes enough for 12 people, the other for 8.

Some of the hits that came up when I googled were Fannie Farmer cookbooks for sale, in case you wanted to replace the one the dog ate

[Delmette2.0]

14. This is a great idea.

I have my Mother's Betty Crocker' s cookbook from the early 1950's. The cookie recipe's are well used. Coffee and spice was my favorite. I also found her doughnut recipe that is a family favorite...seroiously my sister's grandchildren love them.

[Marthe48]

17. Thank you

I've been on a low-carb diet since last Oct. I am enjoying looking through the books I have upstairs, going to go to the basement tomorrow and see what I have. I came across a whole box of cookbooks 2 weeks ago I didn't know I had. lol

[marked50]

18. I'd like to add a dimension to this OP.

We are of an age that accumulated recipes from our relatives that were often in a collection sponsored by some local group or community (those plastic bound spirals) that may be disappearing into the ether of old books and note-cards. They often contained recipes/memories of those we knew who are no longer here. These things bring back many memories, both of the authors and the gastronomically delight.

I have had numerous occasions of acquiring a box full of recipes laboriously ordered in whatever the owner needed to reference them. It was obviously something of value to them. But it was also just as laborious to value them as something to experiment with. Not enough time, without specific intent- as to how to combine some vegetable with some other exotic ingredient- to try them out, let alone search for them.

These things are often lost to the winds of time.

The return is to those recipes that we remember in some fashion; in that spiral book or those note-cards (often in their hand) that we still have. These are the things that we call "comfort foods". Almost as good as stirring that bowl with our Mother at our side.

Okay, this is a stretch to something similar but I think as equally important. It is with those songs in the past that moved us in so similar a fashion-like a recipe. Usually at the time of our transition to things beyond ourselves, our youth to adulthood. There are those memories of "that song" that moved us to others- a group of other people, our loves, our world.

We need to return to those understandings of loving memories and help those who are now there.

[Lochloosa]

21. Here Here!

[Backseat Driver]

20. As a matter of fact, now that you ask, LOL...

I had an older edition of The Oster Blender Cookbook - plain medium gray hard-bound cover - that contained a recipe for Blender Banana Bread - For the life of me, I cannot find that cookbook in the house - I do remember that the recipe had a small bit of cream of tartar in the recipe and was a blended wet into the dry ingredients. I may have lent it out or packed it away in the book boxes at the back of my storage unit and lots of other stuff I'd need to wade through to get at, so - no!

[Marthe48]

22. I looked online

Here is a blender banana bread recipe with cream of tartar, but it doesn't look like it is blended wet into the other dry ingredients. Please let me know if i'm on the right track

https://www.cooks.com/recipe/8w85w838/blender-banana-bread.html

[Backseat Driver]

26. Thanks a lot; it looks very similar in my noggin; I'll give it a try and

let you know if it's like the one I remember tasting...Appreciate the effort. Sure wish I could find my cookbook.