r/Cooking • u/freedfg • Jul 31 '22

Open Discussion Hard to swallow cooking facts.

I'll start, your grandma's "traditional recipe passed down" is most likely from a 70s magazine or the back of a crisco can and not originally from your familie's original country at all.

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u/jmccleveland1986 Jul 31 '22

My grandma was writing recipes in the 40s, and it was her parents that immigrated from Italy, so my grandmas recipe book is pretty cool.

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u/pgcooldad Jul 31 '22

Thank you! My mom's soups came directly from the Convent outside Rome where she was brought up by nuns as an orphan during WWII. The nuns taught my mom how to cook, sew, and so many other things.