Like Mama Used to Make
 

Funny, there are certain meals and dishes that just HAVE to be made a certain way--the way my Mom made them when I was growing up.

Meat loaf is made with oatmeal (not crackers or bread crumbs). It has onions in it, and it does not have tomatoes dumped on it. It's baked in a bowl. And it's served with baked potatoes.

Cole Slaw doesn't have carrots, raisins, or other alien life forms. It is cabbage, sugar, vinegar, mayonnaise (not miracle whip) and pepper.

Creamed tuna goes on toast, not crackers. Same with dried beef gravy.

Pie crust is made with lard.

The only sandwich you put margarine on is an onion sandwich. White bread, margarine, slices of onion, and salt. Not butter, margarine. We called it butter, of course. There was butter (margarine) and "real butter" (butter) which we had on special occasions, such as when my grandmother brought homemade rolls.

Those are just a few to get you started. I'll probably think of more, since Bob is watching the Diners and Dives guy, and food is in the air. So, what did your Mama used to make?

Oh how true!!

My Mom is 84 now and in very good health (better than me!) but each day is precious and you are so right about how some foods just have to be prepared a certain way because that's how Mama did it!

Men are really that way and I don't know how many times I have heard "that's not how Mom made it". It used to bug me until I overheard my son tell my DIL the same thing when we visited them awhile back.

Mom made cole slaw same as yours!! It is the bestest!! :D

My Mom used to make the best spaghetti sauce. Try as I may I cannot duplicate it.

I believe that 35-40 years ago there were not so many preservatives in our food - the livestock was raised differently and our food just tasted better. I don't know - maybe it was just because "mamma made it".

I have learned over the years that just about anything I don't have to cook myself seems to taste better to me!!

I try not to make anything my mom used to make! :eek: Don't tell her, but her food was pretty bad!....except for her English muffin bread.:)

I'll never eat canned ham, salmon loaf, or "western" omelets again. Now where's that throwing up icon??:D:p

Well, B2, first, my mom would have made bruises on me for calling her "mama", she hated that for some odd reason. She never minded "mommy" and "mom".

I digress.

Roast beef HAS to be made in the specific roaster of my entire life with red wine, halved potatoes, halved onions, and carrots. No foreign parts accepted.

Thanksgiving stuffing must be waaaaaaaaay overspiced.

Real butter is the rule, not the exception. "Bad muffins need butter, good muffins deserve butter."

We still use a fork to poke my mom's signature into top pie crusts. She's been dead for 8 years, but we just have to do it.

Poached eggs are to be poached in milk! Those were awesome.

No one has been able to reproduce my mom's spaghetti sauce either. We can't figure out why. Kelly, you may have a point on the additives. We just can't do it. :(

We used to have our milk and butter and eggs delivered to the house. Milk came in bottles and I don't think I ever tasted margarine until I was a teenager!

We had potato chips delivered to the house, too. Charles Chips -in a big brown and gold metal tin.

Meat was from the butcher shop around the corner from our house.

I think the only thing my Mom went to the grocery store for was cleaning supplies, paper products and bread.

My dh had a chip man deliver too. Also he said a farmer would drive a
tractor and wagon thru the neighborhood selling veggies. I wish
we had a veggie deliverer.

Sox

Ha, I remember those Charles's Chips too! We always wanted to keep the cans but weren't allowed.

We have a large farm across the street and can get most anything we need fresh at Al's little stand. He still uses an "honor box" and refuses to attach or secure it in any way. He said that the first time it is disturbed, he will close his stand for good.

My mom's only garden was comprised of six kids, so she gladly accepted fresh produce from the neighbors in exchange for being the Kool-Aid mom. :rolleyes:

My Mom was the best cook. She's gone now, but everyone has tried for yrs to duplicate her Potato Salad and even tho we use the exact same ingredients, it's just not the same. She only used red potatoes for it.

My Dad would make real meatloaf too, B2~ and he'd put baked bean w/real sorghum molasses in them, plus baked potatoes all in the oven. One meal, one oven... Those were some great meals. No shortcuts for them.

Your'e right AMN.... Lots of sage in the stuffing!.. Yummo!

A book that might interest some of you is written by Carl Honore and it is about the Slow philosophy/movement regarding food and life in general. It is a principal that I adhere to and always have being that I grew up on a farm and processed foods were not a part of my life. well, not until my misspent youth when I got the munchies....:D

Margarine has never been allowed in my home and I will walk out of a restaurant if they try to pass that junk off on me. Same thing for non-dairy creamer. Yeccch!

Want to cook how momma did? Get yourself a copy of the Fanny Farmer cookbook. Find cookbooks that predate 1965 (I collect them) especially any of the old Reader's Digest cooking book series....man those were some labour-intensive recipes and still stand the test of time.

As to the coleslaw debate.....that item differs from region to region. Coleslaw down here is made with cabbage and carrots and infused with a product called Heinz Salad Cream....neat stuff. My fave cabbage dish however is of a Russian derivation - straight shredded cabbage marinaded in vinegar, pepper and garlic overnite....gets better with each day that it percolates.

FAve comfort foods to this day though.....Tuna casserole, crusty topped mac and cheese, garlic mashed spuds, poached eggs on muffins with hollandaise, fresh homemade bread slathered with butter.

oops...gotta defibulate.

WHAT THE HECK IS CREAMED TUNA??????

lol

Did you ever have salmon pea wiggle or tuna pea wiggle in grade school? If you're old enough to remember that, or remember your parents talking about it, it's tuna pea wiggle without the peas.

My Mom used to make salmon croquettes. They were good (not my favorite) but all I can remember are those little round bones in the salmon that were so soft you could eat them. Yuck!

We never had creamed tuna but we did have creamed chicken over rice. She'd make this rice nixture and bake it - then cut it into squares and put the creamed chicken over it. YUM!! Comfort food! The creamed chicken was sort of like what you'd find in a chicken pot pie.

lol mel dont know and am pretty sure i dont want to know

oleo is still not allowed in my house and non dairy is like caffeine free useless

i have always tried to stay away from additives and crappola in foods

how many of u feed ducks and geese with over the counter bread???

you are slowly killing them, they store the additives and crappola in their fat cells till it to becomes toxic, u want to feed them get some home made bread or seed without additives or preservatives

stands to reason it would do something similar to us

i have always said it can not be good for a woman who's body goes through a chemical shift change whatever u want to call it once a month for most of your lives, and adding all that junk cant not help one bit

we try our best to keep it clean here, although eating clean can get costly

I don't even know what OLEO is??

Now I have to learn what creamed tuna and some kind of Pea Wiggle and now Oleo.

God, I'm dumb!!! lol

My Gramma. my Momma, and now I myself know homemade chicken soup is unacceptable if you didn't make your own noodles. It is a sin in my family to use a bag of egg noodles or "No Yolks". Noodles must be made from scratch when you make chicken soup. LOL :D