Hi everyone, I started my Thanksgiving baking this morning....homemade pumpkin bread! While combining the ingredients I had to sift some dry ingredients together. Not often that I sift things but when I do it makes me think of one of my favorite memories when I was a child.
I can remember my great grandmother and grandmother having a drawer in their cabinets that they put flour in. They lined the drawer with plastic and then filled the drawer with flour. Anytime they needed it they just pulled the drawer out. They would always leave their flour sifter in the drawer ready to use. Well, guess who would be in the flour drawer just sifting away!! There is no telling how many times that flour got sifted before they used it. I think I was probably about 5 years old when I first remember playing in that drawer. I had so much fun and thought that was the greatest thing!! I guess that was one of my first lessons in baking!!! Do you have a favorite childhood baking memory? If so I would love to hear about it!! Just makes me think of simpler days when life seemed so less complicated!!! Good memories!!
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Favorite Childhood Baking Memory
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Posted 3 years ago by ILoveMyCats #
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I remember my siblings and I crowding into the kitchen when our mother was baking a cake or making cookies. We all wanted to lick the batter off one of the beaters or the spatula. There were six of us so Mom had to be creative in giving us each a taste. There were no worries about eating raw eggs then! :)
Posted 3 years ago by Kitten Whisperer #
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I remember my mom going all out for Christmas and making all the cookies under the sun and I would watch her and sit in the kitchen getting to sample all the cookies. She had her hair in a beehive like state with her glasses on and just bake all day. She always let me eat a little of the dough too!!! YUM
Posted 3 years ago by cricketsmama #
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This is going to make me sound reaaaallllly old. I can remember my mom and dad getting a big dinner ready together. It was always with a fresh turkey right from the farm and my Dad would have to take the feathers off and clean it. One time my dad stuck his hand in the bird, it made a funny noise and Dad pulled out an egg. I must have been 4 or 5 and I never laughed so much in my life. Of course he kept doing it over and over. It was the suction of his hand causing the noise but to a little kid it sounded like what I thought a hen laying an egg would sound like. I could never get over how many eggs that bird had inside "him".
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My mom was not a baker. Actually she didn't like to cook. But she could slice a mean Pillsbury slice and bake cookie!
Now my grandmother - that was a whole different story and I think that I inherited my cooking gene from her. She had a kitchen about the size of a postage stamp but everything that came out of it was heavenly. My favorite baking memory with her was when I was too little to reach the counter but she would park me on a high stool next to her and we would make biscuits.
You know, my biscuits are just never as good as hers.....
Posted 3 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
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My mother in law can make a lot of things from scratch and they are so good but when we were in W. Virginia last year for Easter she made Wayne some biscuits and chocolate pudding(which was what grandma used to make for him) he was in heaven thinking everything was from scratch...he wanted more biscuits and couldn't get enough...here they were the frozen pillsbury biscuits that come in a bag!!! he thought they were homemade, it was classic. They are good :)
Posted 3 years ago by cricketsmama #
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I remember when I was little, going over to my grandma and grandpa's house and my grandpa would lay newspaper all over the dining room table and all the cooling racks would go on top of that (and the cookies on top of that, lol) and there would be dishes with all colors of frosting (homemade, of course) and all different containers of sprinkles.
My brother and I would be practically covered head to toe in frosting/sprinkles, lol... And I'm sure that some of those cookies we decorated were weird looking, but I do remember they tasted great!!! There was nothing like my grandma's cutouts... (or like ANY of her cooking, for that matter, she's an awesome cook)
Posted 3 years ago by sloopy1975 #
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I remember being at my Grandma's house when I was little and the delicious aroma of baking bread wafted through the house. Intermittent slides with my brother down the lovely, polished banister of her stairway to the upstairs. Shhh! That was such big trouble for us! The smell of the yeast was one of my most enticing memories as a child. Grandma would slice us off a good inch thick slice with a nice squishy plop of butter slowly melting into it. The flavor never, ever disappointed and to this day I can still remember the love in the flavor of it! =)
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My mom used to bake a LOT of pies (which I didn't care for and still don't) and of course they were all from scratch. BUT she used to take the left over scraps of pie crust, sprinkle them with sugar and cinnamon and bake them. My sister and I LOVED eating those.
Posted 3 years ago by HuddysMama #
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I had one Grandmother that made fudge and divinity for Christmas every year. Her fudge was the best and I looked forward to it every year. Unfortunately, I didn't get the fudge receipe before she passed and I have never liked divinity so that wasn't a loss for me. My other Grandmother made Gumbo for Christmas every year. I also remember my Mom and Grandmother making beef stroganoff. I watched them do that for years and now I make a better beef stroganoff than they ever did!
Posted 3 years ago by tinafishfrombirthplaceofElvis #
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