Family Recipes

Sounds lovely I would share the. Don’t let them get lost!

My MIL wouldn’t share recipes at all. She made a delicious Bakewell tart type pudding that was the best ever but refused to share.

My SM seemed happy to pass on recipes but would say to mix ingredients until they looked right! Not much help! She made a delicious banoffe pie long before it became mainstream.

I was honoured to have been given the Bishop of Bangor’s recipe for Bara Brith by my ex’s grandmother ( she never gave it to anyone else) but I never used it as I preferred my own grandmothers recipe!

I’m happy to share anything with all and sundry!

Wow these all sound like such good recipes.

Do you keep them in the family or open to share them beyond that? The neighbourhood?

I have got my Great Grandmothers recipes for Christmas Puddings, Christmas Cake, Green tomato chutney and pickling onions and veggies. My paternal Grandma taught me how to cook and bake and I am eternally grateful for this.

I have passed all on to my DIL's and D, my D will have my own recipe book.

My MIL died many years ago, so each Christmas I make a Christmas cake using her recipe. It is the best!! My husband loves it. My MIl made it every year until she died. It is now a Christmas tradition of mine.

I try to memorise my mum's Christmas cake recipe, which I've pretty well got stored in my memory but I wish I'd collected her cake tin from the house, as I've never yet found a decent loose-bottomed one.

Also her recipe for lemon meringue, not a packet in sight !

As someone else mentioned, bakewell pie/tart with just the right measure of almond essence in it----with or without icing on top, and a cherry.

Rock cakes that weren't like rocks, nicely done on the outside and fluffy in the middle.

I don’t have any passed down recipes. There’s always Mary Berry!!

Mum made Lancashire Parkin every winter, I still have her hand written recipe. You can buy it in supermarkets now but it's not a patch on the real thing.

I've got my Mother's personal cookery book and also use the Bero book for many lovely baking recipes, as did both my Grandmas, mother, MIL, and many aunts.

My maternal grandmother made lovely tea cakes and didn’t even tell her own daughters the recipe.

My mother’s pastry was to die for. It was all in her head - a handful of this, a bit of that, and not too much or too little water. She never left it ‘to rest’ but it was delicious. Mine is OK but will never be like Mum’s.

I love it if someone asks me for a recipe. I am very happy to share. I had a friend once who was really sniffy about her 'family' recipes- I could never understand it- surely it is a compliment.
Mind you many years ago we had an ex of my husband's & her new husband for dinner. I was late home from work so stopped off in M & S & bought soup in a pot. She raved about this soup & asked for the recipe. To my shame I did not own up ( well she was my DH's ex!!) but the next day I made a batch of soup which was very similar to the M&S one & sent the recipe to her. She was delighted & said it tasted just right. I never owned up but DH still teases me about it!

I have just finished typing four generations of my family's recipes onto the computer and intend to try and find a publisher soon.

My Irish mother learned from her Scottish mother in law how to make haggis, and how to make apple dumpling, all cooked on the top of the stove. Very labour saving.

I have a couple of recipes that my mother gave me (this post makes me wonder what happened to any recipe books she had - I hadn't thought of it before). But the most popular recipe I've come across came from DH's family, it's basically Mars bars melted in custard, with a dash of Camp coffee thrown in, and it's delicious.

I’m so sad as my granny and aunts recipes have all gone never passed down...

Ok it is nice to see other people’s recipes but here is one I love.
Apple Amber
Cooked pastry flan case. Then fill with apples stewed in orange juice and zest and sugar or honey- cool- then whisk in two egg yolks.
Put in the cool mix then make meringue with the two egg whites. Put on top. Cook meringue.
As nice alternative to lemon meringue flan.

I have a christmas cake recipe in front of me now. It's got 14lbs of fruit in it and very little flour.
It was my Father's.
I have given it to some people - but the one in his handwriting is sellotaped into the front of my mother's cookbook from 1951.

I have my great grandmas cake tins from a wedding gift in 1925.

@EllanVannin.... you now have me thinking about warm rock cakes with butter.... I may well be making some over the weekend ?

I do share recipes. Why not? If somebody enjoys your food that much it's a lovely thing that they then want to share them with their loved ones. I recently shared my sultana cake recipe. One of the easiest cakes to make imo.

Craftycat well done you. You made me laugh out loud.

An ancestor of mine was cook for the aristocracy. (Thinking Downton Abbey) I have her recipe for stuffing which is amazing.

I am feeling soo hungry reading about these tantalizing foods!! Would you be willing to share your stuffing recipe inishowen?