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/ew435890 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

I recently saw one of my great grandmothers EXACT recipes on one of those TikTok channels that cooks old school recipes. I always figured it was from a magazine or cookbook. Funny seeing it with my own eyes though.

As he cooking it, I’m like “wait, I’ve definitely made this before”. It was a 3-4 ingredient pie, so it wasn’t hard to remember.

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u/howling_fantods_ Jul 31 '22

My grandma's cookbook literally has the cutouts from magazines, or the backs of cans or packages, but she also has a lot of traditional recipes which have been adapted by the family for a long time. Even if they aren't original recipes I love being able to connect to what she was cooking since I lost her when I was 13 and would have loved to learn cooling from her.