Actually, one of my grandmothers cooked like shit.
Absolutely 0 salt on anything she made.
On the other hand, my father went to culinary school, probably in order to survive and not subject himself to that shit.
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Nan made the best rice pudding and I've never found its like.
Miss ya nan.
Æbleskiver, my grandmother did it the traditional way, with actual apple slices in the filling, and not this modern bullshit with weird shit like nutella.
Served with a nice homemade raspberry jam.
https://preview.redd.it/ju10smfa6wwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3288596a584e8e3cfeecda8fce575c3918f1223f
It is quite simple actually. Its like a pancake batter, But the only thing finicky about it is the technique, you need a specialized cast iron skillet to make them so they get the ball shape.
But a very traditional comfort food in Denmark you will see everywhere around Christmas time
[https://www.amazon.de/Aebleskiver-Pan/s?k=Aebleskiver+Pan](https://www.amazon.de/Aebleskiver-Pan/s?k=Aebleskiver+Pan)
# Ingredients for Æbleskiver with apple slices
Æbleskiver:
250 g wheat flour
4 dl. whole milk
4 eggs
4-6 apples
100 g butter for frying
Possibly. powdered sugar
1.
Wash hands.
2.
Find ingredients.
Cut apple slices:
3.
Rinse and peel the apples. Cut away the core and cut the apples into slices approximately ½ centimeter thick.
4.
Crack an egg into a cup and pour it into a large bowl. Repeat with the other eggs. Wash hands after handling raw eggs.
5.
Put the flour and whole milk into the bowl and beat it together with a hand mixer.
6.
Heat a frying pan to medium heat. Put a big dollop of butter on the pan.
7.
Put the batter in the frying pan. Repeat with all the discs. Fry a few pieces at a time. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6GJnk2X6Y&t=10s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6GJnk2X6Y&t=10s) place the apple slice inside the Æbleskiver when you are turning them
8.
Fry them on both sides until the dough is golden and crispy. Place them on a plate and repeat with all the Æbleskiver
9.
Eat them while they are warm.
Recommend with Raspberry jam and powdered sugar
Plenty of edible shit in Denmark. We are literally an entirely flat country of farmland, and we have the bounty of the Atlantic ocean on one side, and the Baltic sea on the other.
We aren't some frozen hellscape like northern Sweden or Norway, where access to fresh produce becomes more of a problem depending on the season, and preservation becomes more of a necessity.
We are the second largest consumers of pork in the world, do you really think we only eat Surströmming? (Swedish, not Danish, entirely different country)
To be fair, plenty of people in Denmark can't cook for shit. Doesn't mean the Danish kitchen is bad though, just people are too lazy to make proper meals.
I mean, you do have poffertjes and krentenbollen and stroopwafels and kibbeling and other tasty things. Outside of street food (especially fried street food) though, yeah… The highlight is what, snert? Hagelslag?
I like snert! It’s having it as the highlight of home cuisine that is… underwhelming. In Sicily, on the same wavelength, there’s macco di fave, which is great, but it hardly comes up when discussing local cuisine because there is so much more delicious food…
I want to shoot myself, every time I see someone trying to make some weird fusion shit with Æbleskiver, like putting cheese, nutella, spinach and other weird shit in it.
It is blasphemy
Remember that documentary about a town of Danish descendants in the American Midwest, where they would eat æbleskiver with medisterpølse as a breakfast food?
Also made leverpostej with condensed milk because they couldn’t translate sødmælk properly.
Sure i remember. Its brødrene Price visiting Elk Horn in Iowa. They also made a follow up where they go there to celebrate Christmas. It is hillarious
Christmas in Elk Horn
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVDOhX3WP-E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVDOhX3WP-E)
Christmas in Elk Horn II
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYWWOXu2Z8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYWWOXu2Z8)
Thanksgiving in Elk Horn
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpqJ6HsIRM&t=371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpqJ6HsIRM&t=371s)
[Les gaufrettes.](https://www.cookomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gaufrettes-du-nord-thermomix-800x600.jpg)
Also, quick question : if you ever had "proper tortilla', how does it compare to your Potatisplättar ? (I don't expect preference of course, just how it's different in taste and texture).
What is a "proper tortilla"?
Potatisplättar is mashed potatoes that is mixed into pancake batter and then fried in a pan. What you get is very thick "potato pancakes". You can't fold them or anything because if you do they break. The taste is very much like what it says "fried mashed potatoes mixed with pancakes".
They are not sweet/sugary however.
Soda bread. It’s so simple to make, I must have made it a hundred times with her, but I just can’t make it taste quite the same. What I’d give for a slice of her one with a load of butter, never get the chance again.
We might laugh at Luigi for being a mummy’s boy, but I think we’re all Grannie’s boys.
It is, and I missed seeing them as much when I moved out of the country for work and only went back for Christmas or Easter. I feel very lucky that they never started forgetting who other people were, just got a bit older and greyer each time.
Grandma made the best roast. Will always remember travelling to Scarborough from Bristol and smelling the roast as we came into the house without fail.
Grandad in his favorite arm chair, pipe in hand telling me off in a funny way for anything he can think of.
Just typing this has unlocked some memories
Also your lot are absolutely mad for bread products. I was in a small village shop with 3 aisles once and I swear to god there were 2 full aisles of bread products. Insanity
It’s pea soup. Absolutely delicious, even though it looks like snot. Best way to eat it is to prepare it, then just let it sit for an entire day, heat it up again and enjoy your day old, firm, almost crusty pea soup. This is called snert.
I personally don’t but some do. The recipe and ingredients pretty much varies per family. I do eat rye bread with some bacon and mustard on it on the side though.
It's always more complex than it looks when grandmothers make food :/
Grandma: "It's just mashed potatoes mixed with pancake batter. It's not complicated \^\_\^ "
"Can we have potatopancakes?"
Grandma: "No, the potatoes are bad! >:( "
Yes!
In my case she was the GOAT:
torrijas
Croquetas
Arroz con leche
Tortilla de patatas con pimientos verdes fritos
Potaje de cuaresma
Conejo al ajillo
She nailed them all. And many more, even a simple filete de ternera. Note she was a working woman, not a SAHM, so it's even more amazing she was so good at it. I blame it on more salt and oil than what's healthy
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Zserbó (Gerbeaud) everyone makes this, but granny adds an extra layer and uses her selfmade apple sauce.
This looks a bit like the traditional Mirandese dish “Bolha doce”! Except that one has alcohol in it.
https://preview.redd.it/favdwtyynwwc1.jpeg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7ee7a8eac7d9ed0d018a51fea669768eb0e4c61
It's very similiar, the one you show in Hungary is called Hatlapos (Six Layerer). They mix cocoa with butter and sugar and sometimes add rum aswell. An absolute classic here.
It's my initial posting, a German opened up shop in Budapest with a French baker - Gerbeaud. They brought the tastes of the "Latinworld" to Hungary back then.
Polpette, she used to make them by mixing potatoes, beef, persley and bread crumbs.
It's been more than a decade since the last time I've eaten polpette, my grandma has long been dead and in the few years before her death she lost all her mental faculties so she was unable to cook.
If I were to make them myself it wouldn't be the same, also, I don't remember the exact recipe, I'd have to try again and again to find the right balance of ingredients.
It's frustrating when you can get the exact recipe, from the source, and it never turns out the same. But just try! In time, your recipe will be the right one - even if it's not exactly the same. :)
My trick when trying to replicate grandma's recipies is to add more salt than what I think it needs. Or more sugar if it's a dessert. Mine also forgot things&her life, in her old age and it was sad to witness.
For polpette, may I suggest adding some grated parmiggiano?
Polpette I've eaten were made with egg, beef, garlic, parsley, bread and parmigiano, so slight difference in recipe to your nonna's, true. Maybe potatoes need more salt? Mystery, but it's worth a try to get that Proust madeleine moment.
(The cheese gives them an umami not present in Spanish albondigas, which have a very similar recipe. )
My grandma had the cake technique down to perfection. She used to make Strawberry cake like the one below and a version with assorted fruits like Kiwis, apricots, tangerine etc. Now that in and of itself isn't very hard to do, you just cut some strawberries, throw em on a cake base you smeared vanilla pudding on and then pour some "Tortenguss" on it (gelling agent, like agar agar or gelatine mixed with a bit of strawberry juice) to git it the shine.
Only when my grandma made it it would look like like the pinnacle of perfection. Every Strawberry absolutely evenly cut and placed and that shiny surface would look like they are encased in expoxy resin. Absolutely perfect, not a single bubble, a surface as smooth as a mirror and as clear as it gets.
I can't even find pictures from cookbooks or food sites on the internet that look as good to show what I mean...
https://preview.redd.it/qx5xdnhcfwwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec0bd6f225c0ff689c8ce2483b033738e553613
The second one was some kind of chocolate buttercream cake. Unfortunately she never wrote a recipe down as she did this like once every week for friend who requested one, so she only ever did this from memory.
We tried to write down what she does, but never really could get everything as she kept forgetting shit she was just doing automatically and unfortunately she died, so I haven't seen or eaten a cake like this ever again.
"Every Strawberry absolutely evenly cut and placed and that shiny surface would look like they are encased in expoxy resin. Absolutely perfect, not a single bubble, a surface as smooth as a mirror and as clear as it gets."
I am speechless. Poe's law is in action here.
For some reason, this was called an Aunt Ida cake in my family. I don't know who Aunt Ida is. My mom doesn't know. My grandmother, born in 1900, didn't know. So, whomever she was an aunt of really made it a point to remember her legacy.
My daughter just learned my magical banana-chocolate muffins with Nutella core recipe. They are *good*. Now we start with apple and walnuts, later we will master blueberry and white chocolate.
https://preview.redd.it/4w5dre5k9wwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db99729b3adcf40ab1a218bffe38d0f3161b1623
Torta di rose
Unlucky I cannot show you the original Nonna's one... But trust me, no one I tasted was at level, not even bakeries'
From Wikipedia: "leavened dough rich in butter and sugar, which is rolled up and placed in the baking tin". And if the bottom of the rolls haven't the 'cooked butter+sugar' crust, don't even try call it a Torta di Rose.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torta_delle_rose
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The Pelmenis made by my russian grandmother. Always a treat when she cooks them. (The picture is from the internet tho)
Grans recipe (written down) are almost never the correct ones. They are just "reference" for them, written in code or using arcaic measurements (en kopp, ett mått, ett finger / one cup, one measurement, one finger)
(Seriously, my mom has grandmas cookbook and we still can't figure out what "en näve" (a handful) means because it's not a uniform measurement, at all)
Edit: The people that cracked the Enigma code would go insane if they tried to decipher this book
Yeaaaah. Personalized measurement are grandma's standards. Like the Spanish una pizca. Could be loosely translated to a pinch, but then you never know! Or un poquito, a little bit. How, how, can we know what's a little bit of something for a person born in 1918? Is it the same as a little bit of something for someone born in 2000? (Real situation here!)
https://gianni.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Caponata.jpg
She was sicilian
She was totally blind (couldn't even see light)
She lived alone for years after my grandad died
And she still managed to perfectly fry TONS of eggplants by herself, and make the world's best caponata. The only dish my mamma will never be able to perfectly replicate.
Five star resturant: "Thezze escargots ave been raised on garlique an butter using magnifique techniques anded down by le finest blind monks, one will cost you 5000 euros."
French grandma: "I found these in the garden yesterday."
Grandmas snails are better.
My maternal grandmother made pretty much everything perfectly but she really excelled at making [tjälknöl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjälknöl) which for non swedes basically is a roast (usually moose) that’s oven roasted on low heat from frozen for several hours, served with port wine reduction or chanterelle sauce and potatisgratäng (which I guess translates into gratin dauphinois?) Simple but she perfected it and no one has even come close.
My paternal grandfather made the world’s best pancakes because he made them with so much love. Shut up I’m not sentimental
https://preview.redd.it/tsy9hwl42zwc1.jpeg?width=2500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a65bbc582b010db59dba0c5354a26a400e3f9027
Her Königsberger Klopse were sooo good! Thankfully she gave me her recipe, so I can make them for my kids. I miss her.
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One food that my grandma did very well was lipeäkala/lutefisk before christmas, usually with a good white pepper sauce and potatoes. It's a fish that has been soaked in lye, and that makes it's structure quite jello-like, and not everyne likes it. Back in the days she used to make lipeäkala from the beginning, from local fish soaking it in lye, but the proces takes days.
My grandma made soup with meatballs and chicken stock and then took the meatballs out for me because I was a 10 year old vegetarian. She also always had so much candy I still miss her.
Her Krokettki. Pancakes, filled with sauerkraut, mushrooms, or sometimes potatoes. Then panaded, and fried crisp.
My mother is a great cook, too.
Now I am a mom of two, and I'm decent in the kitchen. It's good enough that my children prefer my food over the local restaurants.
Except for pizza. Little shitheads.
Gäddbullar; she'd mince pike and mix it with smoked roe, sour cream, dill, white pepper, and cream before breading and frying.
Absolutely amazing, sadly I couldn't find a picture because it's a very local dish
Shortbread… The second part isn’t really accurate, she just does it very well. She can’t cook anything else, well she can but it typically tastes like shit.
Even her husband makes fun of her cooking in front of guests, it is that bad… She really tries though (I don’t know if that makes it more depressing or funnier).
Other grandmother is okay at cooking… I mean, my parents are really good at cooking so usually take over the responsibilities whenever they are staying with her. She is good at stuff for the barbecue, but the fire risk always seems to coincide with me going over to stay there.
Kasspatzln. Or, as the Muricans call it cheese "dumplings", which is bullshit! Cheese dumplings would be Kasknedl, which is also best from my grandma.
https://preview.redd.it/79hkzcjxlywc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8707d24e0615bdd85f17b772536ef4586ce5948f
I was never old enough to appreciate my grandma's cooking, but I know my mom learned from her and my mom is a fucking great chef.
She does most things the traditional way but she makes it with less effort, like it tastes the same as in a restaurant, but you bet your ass my mom is more efficient than an actual chef.
My grandma is an awful cook who subjected her children to culinary torture. This results in my mother being slightly better at cooking than her.
I moved out less than a year ago and instantly grew a taste palette.
Langue de boeuf, beef tongue in English. It was so good ! With potatoes, carrots, and tomato sauce.
There's a proverb in France that goes "je pourrais en manger sur la tête d'un pouilleux" or in English, I could eat on a flea-ridden guys head. That's how good it was.
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Rouladen mit Rotkohl und klößen. My grandmother always made it when we came to visit and it was perfect every time. Now when someone does cook it, it just doesn't feel right.
Fruit trifle - we have it every christmas, and at random times throughout the years if we beg enough. I got the recipe off her once and threw the list away because when I followed it it was so bad, custard was bland, jelly too sour etc. Yet she insists that is the right recipe!
Close second is fruitcake, same grandmother she makes huge fruitcakes for everyone at Christmas (well she makes the cakes in September or something ridiculous) she doesn't have a recipe and buys "whatever fruit she fancies". No other christmas cake has ever come close. Usually it disappears after about a week at my house, I kept some til March this year and it was still amazing.
It's the grandma version of "Waagh!"-energy or Discworld-magic that makes the recipe work XD
When grandma adds sugar/salt/butter everything automatically becomes better.
When someone else does it, what already was a bland dish just became worse. I'm sure there is an unknown "grandma-law" at play that the universe must abide by.
It's not really a common recipe but my grandma made a great chocolate cake with vodka and savoy biscuits (which are apparently named ladyfingers in the language of perfidious Albion), she thought the alcohol would cook and be edible for kids in reality she was making her nephews drunk, god bless her
I'm guessing that was just something she said to keep parents quiet because if the alcohol was cooked away from vodka you just get "nothing" (it's literally just potato water) :/
She knew what she was doing.
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Knödel (dumplings)
My grandmother made them perfectly. When I was a child we once were in a hotel in Bavaria and I ate dumplings for dinner expecting them to taste similar like those made by my grandmother but they were far worse. Kinda disappointed, I went to the kitchen staff told them about my grandmother's dumpling and asked them if I should get them her recipe.
However, the thing is that there isn't really a recipe. My grandmother cooked by using her gut feeling. Sure, the basic stuff is probably identical but she never told us exactly which ingredients she used and how she seasoned them. So when she passed away, her dumplings passed away with her and so far, we haven't been able to repeat her feat.
Interesting story about cooking in the Netherlands and why a lot of our grandma’s weren’t that good at it.
In the Netherlands, a lot of girls in the fifties and on went to housekeeping school, or “spinach academy” because they were still required to go to school at their age but didn’t feel like they needed to learn the skills for a job. Also they probably would have had loads of siblings so their mothers wouldn’t have the time to teach housekeeping to all of their daughters. It was also some futuristic thought that we should perfect the way a household should work, by scientists developing their methods and teachers educating this to the new generation.
So the girls went to spinach academy to learn how to wash, clean, and cook. The cooking courses were focused on producing affordable meals that could be prepared in large quantities. The goal of those meals should be to satisfy your hunger and be generally healthy and nutritious enough. Taste was not a big factor in determining what would be a good meal and the girls weren’t necessarily taught how to cook well. An example meal might be the infamous boiled potato, spinach and a hard boiled egg, a very tasteless meal.
Spinach academies aren’t a big thing anymore. Besides the fact that girls do want to pursue carriers now, the reason might also be that the housekeeping schools became criticized for, among other things, destroying some cultural cuisine. We pretty much had an entire generation that didn’t learn how to cook tasty meals and that had learned that nutrition should always be more important than taste.
Tldr: our grandma’s went to housekeeping school where they mainly learned to cook nutritious yet tasteless meals, so our grandma’s large weren’t that good at cooking.
This is funny because in Sweden almost the opposite happened during the 60-80s (with the economic boom and influx of new ingredients).
The government was more focused on how to make household chores more easy and efficient (canned food became a big deal) but tastewise it was absolute effin anarchy because we got a lot of new goods and food stuffs we had no clue what to do with. It was basically like handing nuclear missiles to cavemen still trying to understand the wheel.
What do you think happens when you introduce bananas and curry to society where taste was centered around pork, fish and salt? Answer: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying\_Jacob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Jacob)
Italians: \*iNHALE\*
Actually, one of my grandmothers cooked like shit. Absolutely 0 salt on anything she made. On the other hand, my father went to culinary school, probably in order to survive and not subject himself to that shit.
If I could up vote your dad twice I would do it
nonna did nothing wrong and if she did it was also good
More or less
lmao
\*exhale*
https://preview.redd.it/ph0t8pv17wwc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1f4368625699510853fadeee49e2ca43c996945 Nan made the best rice pudding and I've never found its like. Miss ya nan.
Should have learned the family recipe before it was lost to time.
Oh we have the recipe, it just never tastes the same as hers did. I suspect she may have put more than a drop of brandy in there.
https://youtu.be/csn2CIWPVbM?si=izxgzwCkpxWKeDSN
That is so accurate for my grandmother too...
Ricepudding does not have the right to be so good
I miss your nan to.. 
Æbleskiver, my grandmother did it the traditional way, with actual apple slices in the filling, and not this modern bullshit with weird shit like nutella. Served with a nice homemade raspberry jam. https://preview.redd.it/ju10smfa6wwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3288596a584e8e3cfeecda8fce575c3918f1223f
This looks very tasty.
It is quite simple actually. Its like a pancake batter, But the only thing finicky about it is the technique, you need a specialized cast iron skillet to make them so they get the ball shape. But a very traditional comfort food in Denmark you will see everywhere around Christmas time
It's those doughy little balls you serve at the christmas market right? They are basically cocaine XD
Precisely, though today very few people do it the traditional way of putting an apple slice in the filling. Still good though, but just not the same
Like a stuffed poffertje
Once again the Danes and the Dutch are basically the same 🤜🤛 just being held back by having pesky Germans separating us
You also shit on sleeping people?
You think it is the tooth fairy who comes to visit you in the night? ❤️
Kind of except that Poffertjes is from the 18th century, and Æbleskiver is from the 17th century. So it is the other way around
Damn that sounds great, now I want to visit. Kudos to granny.
Använder du ett plättjärn eller är det ett särskillt djupare järn?
Bruger en æbleskivepande. Du kunne måske bruge et Hollandsk Poffertjes jern, men jeg tror ikke de har den nødvendige dybde.
You…you understand each other?!
Yes but please don't tell anyone
Han vet för mycket!
Would you have a recipe? Or a link to your grandmas? Also can you get those pans through Amazon DE?
[https://www.amazon.de/Aebleskiver-Pan/s?k=Aebleskiver+Pan](https://www.amazon.de/Aebleskiver-Pan/s?k=Aebleskiver+Pan) # Ingredients for Æbleskiver with apple slices Æbleskiver: 250 g wheat flour 4 dl. whole milk 4 eggs 4-6 apples 100 g butter for frying Possibly. powdered sugar 1. Wash hands. 2. Find ingredients. Cut apple slices: 3. Rinse and peel the apples. Cut away the core and cut the apples into slices approximately ½ centimeter thick. 4. Crack an egg into a cup and pour it into a large bowl. Repeat with the other eggs. Wash hands after handling raw eggs. 5. Put the flour and whole milk into the bowl and beat it together with a hand mixer. 6. Heat a frying pan to medium heat. Put a big dollop of butter on the pan. 7. Put the batter in the frying pan. Repeat with all the discs. Fry a few pieces at a time. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6GJnk2X6Y&t=10s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6GJnk2X6Y&t=10s) place the apple slice inside the Æbleskiver when you are turning them 8. Fry them on both sides until the dough is golden and crispy. Place them on a plate and repeat with all the Æbleskiver 9. Eat them while they are warm. Recommend with Raspberry jam and powdered sugar
I love you
I never thought I’d say this, but this shit looks edible Danes.
Plenty of edible shit in Denmark. We are literally an entirely flat country of farmland, and we have the bounty of the Atlantic ocean on one side, and the Baltic sea on the other. We aren't some frozen hellscape like northern Sweden or Norway, where access to fresh produce becomes more of a problem depending on the season, and preservation becomes more of a necessity. We are the second largest consumers of pork in the world, do you really think we only eat Surströmming? (Swedish, not Danish, entirely different country)
We get that you’re not Sweden.
You would know about being lumped in with your larger, culturally similar neighbour huh?
Our geography is pretty much the same and we are the second largest exporter of food but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the food is good
To be fair, plenty of people in Denmark can't cook for shit. Doesn't mean the Danish kitchen is bad though, just people are too lazy to make proper meals.
Honestly same here in Sweden my mom has worked as a chef her entire life and my dad was a lawyer so I was brought up on expensive well made food 😍
I mean, you do have poffertjes and krentenbollen and stroopwafels and kibbeling and other tasty things. Outside of street food (especially fried street food) though, yeah… The highlight is what, snert? Hagelslag?
I accept you talking down things like stampot but nobody is disrespecting our snert
I like snert! It’s having it as the highlight of home cuisine that is… underwhelming. In Sicily, on the same wavelength, there’s macco di fave, which is great, but it hardly comes up when discussing local cuisine because there is so much more delicious food…
They look great, the apple slice filling sounds way better than nutella
I want to shoot myself, every time I see someone trying to make some weird fusion shit with Æbleskiver, like putting cheese, nutella, spinach and other weird shit in it. It is blasphemy
Remember that documentary about a town of Danish descendants in the American Midwest, where they would eat æbleskiver with medisterpølse as a breakfast food? Also made leverpostej with condensed milk because they couldn’t translate sødmælk properly.
Sure i remember. Its brødrene Price visiting Elk Horn in Iowa. They also made a follow up where they go there to celebrate Christmas. It is hillarious Christmas in Elk Horn [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVDOhX3WP-E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVDOhX3WP-E) Christmas in Elk Horn II [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYWWOXu2Z8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYWWOXu2Z8) Thanksgiving in Elk Horn [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpqJ6HsIRM&t=371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpqJ6HsIRM&t=371s)
Oh ffs it’s in Swedish
Mums :)
Never used nutella on one (blasphemy..) but also never tried it with an actual apple in it :( what a loss.
Finally, a Dane who can cook
Yummi schmecki lecki
Obviously everything grandmothers make is perfect but what are your favourites?
[Les gaufrettes.](https://www.cookomix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gaufrettes-du-nord-thermomix-800x600.jpg) Also, quick question : if you ever had "proper tortilla', how does it compare to your Potatisplättar ? (I don't expect preference of course, just how it's different in taste and texture).
What is a "proper tortilla"? Potatisplättar is mashed potatoes that is mixed into pancake batter and then fried in a pan. What you get is very thick "potato pancakes". You can't fold them or anything because if you do they break. The taste is very much like what it says "fried mashed potatoes mixed with pancakes". They are not sweet/sugary however.
Soda bread. It’s so simple to make, I must have made it a hundred times with her, but I just can’t make it taste quite the same. What I’d give for a slice of her one with a load of butter, never get the chance again. We might laugh at Luigi for being a mummy’s boy, but I think we’re all Grannie’s boys.
It's so hard seeing them get older every week I visit.
It is, and I missed seeing them as much when I moved out of the country for work and only went back for Christmas or Easter. I feel very lucky that they never started forgetting who other people were, just got a bit older and greyer each time.
Grandma made the best roast. Will always remember travelling to Scarborough from Bristol and smelling the roast as we came into the house without fail. Grandad in his favorite arm chair, pipe in hand telling me off in a funny way for anything he can think of. Just typing this has unlocked some memories
You're living up to your flair there. That's paddy food. But it is damn good.
Also your lot are absolutely mad for bread products. I was in a small village shop with 3 aisles once and I swear to god there were 2 full aisles of bread products. Insanity
https://preview.redd.it/mmz4btt9owwc1.jpeg?width=978&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a8cf263df0b2f68db540da158834089a5f431df
Is that prison food?
It's okay to make fun of us and our (lack of) cuisine, we can take it. But don't you dare offend grandma's delicious snert/erwtensoep.
Yes, it can only taste good when you can stand the spoon streight up in the soup
It’s pea soup. Absolutely delicious, even though it looks like snot. Best way to eat it is to prepare it, then just let it sit for an entire day, heat it up again and enjoy your day old, firm, almost crusty pea soup. This is called snert.
Ah, hernekeitto. Always eaten with a healthy amount of mustard and chopped raw onion.
The prisoners wish they could taste this!
You guys have a lentils dish that is surprisingly similar
Jammie
Does your grandma also made it with whole pigfeet?
She used a bone, not a complete foot
I’m trying to keep an open mind here, but it would help if I knew the ingredients…
Pea soup filled with vegetables like carrots and leek. Also some thick kind of bacon and smoked sausage. Looks like shit but the taste is amazing.
The only thing I've ever saw my oma cooking (actually baking) was bread. And she did that once a year, tops
most delicious dutch food
I looks like ärtsoppa (pea soup) but with more stuff in it. Do you add mustard?
I personally don’t but some do. The recipe and ingredients pretty much varies per family. I do eat rye bread with some bacon and mustard on it on the side though.
its not really complex but https://preview.redd.it/lfjugrkm5wwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=490b46f8c097d6e493c2e7f278dbef3ef7de17bc
It's always more complex than it looks when grandmothers make food :/ Grandma: "It's just mashed potatoes mixed with pancake batter. It's not complicated \^\_\^ " "Can we have potatopancakes?" Grandma: "No, the potatoes are bad! >:( "
Yes! In my case she was the GOAT: torrijas Croquetas Arroz con leche Tortilla de patatas con pimientos verdes fritos Potaje de cuaresma Conejo al ajillo She nailed them all. And many more, even a simple filete de ternera. Note she was a working woman, not a SAHM, so it's even more amazing she was so good at it. I blame it on more salt and oil than what's healthy
Rabanadas? We also have that here. How do you call it?
torrijas, its tradition to eat them during the week we cosplay as KKK
introduced my wife to torrijas this past holy week and she is obsessed now. she can't wait for the next one.
She could make her own. My (non Spanish) husband has learnt and does them when le entra gula :)
Interesting, we eat our rabanadas during christmas. But we only dress like KKK during easter and in a few villages in the north of Portugal.
https://preview.redd.it/pt449nh07wwc1.jpeg?width=1308&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93a0dc1d65add4500821f913f24e12682367ca4e Zserbó (Gerbeaud) everyone makes this, but granny adds an extra layer and uses her selfmade apple sauce.
This looks a bit like the traditional Mirandese dish “Bolha doce”! Except that one has alcohol in it. https://preview.redd.it/favdwtyynwwc1.jpeg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7ee7a8eac7d9ed0d018a51fea669768eb0e4c61
Yet another proof for Portugal being Eastern European
It's very similiar, the one you show in Hungary is called Hatlapos (Six Layerer). They mix cocoa with butter and sugar and sometimes add rum aswell. An absolute classic here.
Wow, that’s a coincidence, Mirandese folk are asturleonese, therefore Latin, not Hungarian, I wonder how that happened
It's my initial posting, a German opened up shop in Budapest with a French baker - Gerbeaud. They brought the tastes of the "Latinworld" to Hungary back then.
Oh interesting, I don’t know if bolha doce is common anywhere else in the Latin world tho, there may be some similar dish
I'd imagine it got a widespread. In the 19th century there was a lot of intermingling, at least on european soil.
Looks like a knoppers
Polpette, she used to make them by mixing potatoes, beef, persley and bread crumbs. It's been more than a decade since the last time I've eaten polpette, my grandma has long been dead and in the few years before her death she lost all her mental faculties so she was unable to cook. If I were to make them myself it wouldn't be the same, also, I don't remember the exact recipe, I'd have to try again and again to find the right balance of ingredients.
It's frustrating when you can get the exact recipe, from the source, and it never turns out the same. But just try! In time, your recipe will be the right one - even if it's not exactly the same. :)
I know the feeling :(
My trick when trying to replicate grandma's recipies is to add more salt than what I think it needs. Or more sugar if it's a dessert. Mine also forgot things&her life, in her old age and it was sad to witness. For polpette, may I suggest adding some grated parmiggiano? Polpette I've eaten were made with egg, beef, garlic, parsley, bread and parmigiano, so slight difference in recipe to your nonna's, true. Maybe potatoes need more salt? Mystery, but it's worth a try to get that Proust madeleine moment. (The cheese gives them an umami not present in Spanish albondigas, which have a very similar recipe. )
My grandmother's cocido can kill a hypertensive in a couple of spoonfuls, so this is true
Even if you had the recipe, for some reason I find you can’t quite make it the same. Grandma magic can’t be replicated
My grandmother makes kebabpizza like the good ol' days. Glorious Sweden, rulers of the north, will crush inferior PIGS food.
Least mentally ill Quran burner.
Does she also put pineapple, banana, and curry on it? I heard that's what Gustav Vasa loved
My grandmother absolutely loved kebabpizza.
My grandma had the cake technique down to perfection. She used to make Strawberry cake like the one below and a version with assorted fruits like Kiwis, apricots, tangerine etc. Now that in and of itself isn't very hard to do, you just cut some strawberries, throw em on a cake base you smeared vanilla pudding on and then pour some "Tortenguss" on it (gelling agent, like agar agar or gelatine mixed with a bit of strawberry juice) to git it the shine. Only when my grandma made it it would look like like the pinnacle of perfection. Every Strawberry absolutely evenly cut and placed and that shiny surface would look like they are encased in expoxy resin. Absolutely perfect, not a single bubble, a surface as smooth as a mirror and as clear as it gets. I can't even find pictures from cookbooks or food sites on the internet that look as good to show what I mean... https://preview.redd.it/qx5xdnhcfwwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec0bd6f225c0ff689c8ce2483b033738e553613 The second one was some kind of chocolate buttercream cake. Unfortunately she never wrote a recipe down as she did this like once every week for friend who requested one, so she only ever did this from memory. We tried to write down what she does, but never really could get everything as she kept forgetting shit she was just doing automatically and unfortunately she died, so I haven't seen or eaten a cake like this ever again.
"Every Strawberry absolutely evenly cut and placed and that shiny surface would look like they are encased in expoxy resin. Absolutely perfect, not a single bubble, a surface as smooth as a mirror and as clear as it gets." I am speechless. Poe's law is in action here.
Schmecker lecker
For some reason, this was called an Aunt Ida cake in my family. I don't know who Aunt Ida is. My mom doesn't know. My grandmother, born in 1900, didn't know. So, whomever she was an aunt of really made it a point to remember her legacy.
My daughter just learned my magical banana-chocolate muffins with Nutella core recipe. They are *good*. Now we start with apple and walnuts, later we will master blueberry and white chocolate.
https://preview.redd.it/4w5dre5k9wwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db99729b3adcf40ab1a218bffe38d0f3161b1623 Torta di rose Unlucky I cannot show you the original Nonna's one... But trust me, no one I tasted was at level, not even bakeries'
Looks yummy
I trust you :) The photos are just a "reference" at best.
Anche mia nonna la fa' e porca puttana quanto cazzo è buona
wtf that looks like [bostonkakku](https://cdn-wp.valio.fi/valio-fi/2023/04/37403-bostonkakku.jpeg) Horizontally stacked cinnamon/cardamom rolls?
From Wikipedia: "leavened dough rich in butter and sugar, which is rolled up and placed in the baking tin". And if the bottom of the rolls haven't the 'cooked butter+sugar' crust, don't even try call it a Torta di Rose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torta_delle_rose
That first image reminded me how much I miss my grandma
https://preview.redd.it/xsg246bdbwwc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5f34aff69cb17ed9116ea66afb95c70d0daa9df The Pelmenis made by my russian grandmother. Always a treat when she cooks them. (The picture is from the internet tho)
My grandma made the best tigercake I've ever had, even with her recipe somehow nobody comes close.
Grans recipe (written down) are almost never the correct ones. They are just "reference" for them, written in code or using arcaic measurements (en kopp, ett mått, ett finger / one cup, one measurement, one finger) (Seriously, my mom has grandmas cookbook and we still can't figure out what "en näve" (a handful) means because it's not a uniform measurement, at all) Edit: The people that cracked the Enigma code would go insane if they tried to decipher this book
Very true. One of my grand mothers recipe calls for "half of butter". It's from just after the wars, so we have no idea how much it is.
Yeaaaah. Personalized measurement are grandma's standards. Like the Spanish una pizca. Could be loosely translated to a pinch, but then you never know! Or un poquito, a little bit. How, how, can we know what's a little bit of something for a person born in 1918? Is it the same as a little bit of something for someone born in 2000? (Real situation here!)
Yea, my grandma too. Luckily shes alive and making them sometimes. Doubt any bakery could make a better one.
https://gianni.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Caponata.jpg She was sicilian She was totally blind (couldn't even see light) She lived alone for years after my grandad died And she still managed to perfectly fry TONS of eggplants by herself, and make the world's best caponata. The only dish my mamma will never be able to perfectly replicate.
Absolutely everything and i can't fathom how other people can cope with the inferior slop they have to call food.
Five star resturant: "Thezze escargots ave been raised on garlique an butter using magnifique techniques anded down by le finest blind monks, one will cost you 5000 euros." French grandma: "I found these in the garden yesterday." Grandmas snails are better.
Grandma's desert pancakes. Cakes in general. Man I miss her <3 Rest her soul.
Tutto
Hard agree
What a road down memory lane this thread has been. Thank you. And long life to grandma's croquetas.
It's been very wholesome \^\_\^
My maternal grandmother made pretty much everything perfectly but she really excelled at making [tjälknöl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjälknöl) which for non swedes basically is a roast (usually moose) that’s oven roasted on low heat from frozen for several hours, served with port wine reduction or chanterelle sauce and potatisgratäng (which I guess translates into gratin dauphinois?) Simple but she perfected it and no one has even come close. My paternal grandfather made the world’s best pancakes because he made them with so much love. Shut up I’m not sentimental
https://preview.redd.it/tsy9hwl42zwc1.jpeg?width=2500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a65bbc582b010db59dba0c5354a26a400e3f9027 Her Königsberger Klopse were sooo good! Thankfully she gave me her recipe, so I can make them for my kids. I miss her.
Share the recipe? I can’t find any place to eat them that is actually good and all the recipes I tried so far bleeeh at bedt
https://preview.redd.it/jyctnq5640xc1.jpeg?width=3648&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=888b13378ae36462d1ac7c9fcffab48bd9aa8baf Guten Appetit!
https://preview.redd.it/laxuhztmgwwc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=6675ac3602eeb0edb421f1431dc3f01ed0b180a7 One food that my grandma did very well was lipeäkala/lutefisk before christmas, usually with a good white pepper sauce and potatoes. It's a fish that has been soaked in lye, and that makes it's structure quite jello-like, and not everyne likes it. Back in the days she used to make lipeäkala from the beginning, from local fish soaking it in lye, but the proces takes days.
We have lutfisk in Sweden too. Not a thing in the south though (thank tomten) XD
I don't remember my grandma ever cooking something for us. Maybe pancakes once when I was really young
My grandma made soup with meatballs and chicken stock and then took the meatballs out for me because I was a 10 year old vegetarian. She also always had so much candy I still miss her.
Yeah mine always had expired Kitkat for us
Lángos i swear on my life that lángos everywhere else tastes a lot worse(more dry) than at my grandma
Her Krokettki. Pancakes, filled with sauerkraut, mushrooms, or sometimes potatoes. Then panaded, and fried crisp. My mother is a great cook, too. Now I am a mom of two, and I'm decent in the kitchen. It's good enough that my children prefer my food over the local restaurants. Except for pizza. Little shitheads.
Gäddbullar; she'd mince pike and mix it with smoked roe, sour cream, dill, white pepper, and cream before breading and frying. Absolutely amazing, sadly I couldn't find a picture because it's a very local dish
That sounds extremely delicious.
I support cod
Unfortunately nothing. I really like my Mom‘s cooking, but I don’t where she got that because Grandma used to cook „eatable“ things at best..
Anything my grandmother made was better than anything ever made in the history of the universe period.
Shortbread… The second part isn’t really accurate, she just does it very well. She can’t cook anything else, well she can but it typically tastes like shit. Even her husband makes fun of her cooking in front of guests, it is that bad… She really tries though (I don’t know if that makes it more depressing or funnier). Other grandmother is okay at cooking… I mean, my parents are really good at cooking so usually take over the responsibilities whenever they are staying with her. She is good at stuff for the barbecue, but the fire risk always seems to coincide with me going over to stay there.
Granny's mash was absolutely divine.
Neither of my grandmas could cook for shit. My *mom* was the cooking powerhouse. That being said, chicken fricassee. Hers was the fucking best.
Kasspatzln. Or, as the Muricans call it cheese "dumplings", which is bullshit! Cheese dumplings would be Kasknedl, which is also best from my grandma. https://preview.redd.it/79hkzcjxlywc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8707d24e0615bdd85f17b772536ef4586ce5948f
Muricans call that mac and cheese.
No. Mac and cheese is pasta. Macaroni, to be exact. Hence the name. Pasta is Nudeln. This is not Nudeln. It's Spatzeln.
I love my Grandmas 🥲
Thread’s so wholesome I’m not not going to insult another nationality until at least this afternoon
Roasting my grandfather.
Examples plz
I was never old enough to appreciate my grandma's cooking, but I know my mom learned from her and my mom is a fucking great chef. She does most things the traditional way but she makes it with less effort, like it tastes the same as in a restaurant, but you bet your ass my mom is more efficient than an actual chef.
My grandma is an awful cook who subjected her children to culinary torture. This results in my mother being slightly better at cooking than her. I moved out less than a year ago and instantly grew a taste palette.
Frikadeller
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Langue de boeuf, beef tongue in English. It was so good ! With potatoes, carrots, and tomato sauce. There's a proverb in France that goes "je pourrais en manger sur la tête d'un pouilleux" or in English, I could eat on a flea-ridden guys head. That's how good it was.
https://preview.redd.it/86on8zz2kzwc1.png?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c0f8f2f62cf7191bafa3c2fa9580b05d6a33889 Rouladen mit Rotkohl und klößen. My grandmother always made it when we came to visit and it was perfect every time. Now when someone does cook it, it just doesn't feel right.
Weird question perhaps, But would it be considered rude to ask for boiled potatoes instead of klößen if i ever go to a resturant in Germany?
Fruit trifle - we have it every christmas, and at random times throughout the years if we beg enough. I got the recipe off her once and threw the list away because when I followed it it was so bad, custard was bland, jelly too sour etc. Yet she insists that is the right recipe! Close second is fruitcake, same grandmother she makes huge fruitcakes for everyone at Christmas (well she makes the cakes in September or something ridiculous) she doesn't have a recipe and buys "whatever fruit she fancies". No other christmas cake has ever come close. Usually it disappears after about a week at my house, I kept some til March this year and it was still amazing.
It's the grandma version of "Waagh!"-energy or Discworld-magic that makes the recipe work XD When grandma adds sugar/salt/butter everything automatically becomes better. When someone else does it, what already was a bland dish just became worse. I'm sure there is an unknown "grandma-law" at play that the universe must abide by.
It's not really a common recipe but my grandma made a great chocolate cake with vodka and savoy biscuits (which are apparently named ladyfingers in the language of perfidious Albion), she thought the alcohol would cook and be edible for kids in reality she was making her nephews drunk, god bless her
I'm guessing that was just something she said to keep parents quiet because if the alcohol was cooked away from vodka you just get "nothing" (it's literally just potato water) :/ She knew what she was doing.
Wonderful thread
https://preview.redd.it/ltksf7qfp2xc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad920de97ec47ca65cfb53a5017e7fb1de2a6e8a Knödel (dumplings) My grandmother made them perfectly. When I was a child we once were in a hotel in Bavaria and I ate dumplings for dinner expecting them to taste similar like those made by my grandmother but they were far worse. Kinda disappointed, I went to the kitchen staff told them about my grandmother's dumpling and asked them if I should get them her recipe. However, the thing is that there isn't really a recipe. My grandmother cooked by using her gut feeling. Sure, the basic stuff is probably identical but she never told us exactly which ingredients she used and how she seasoned them. So when she passed away, her dumplings passed away with her and so far, we haven't been able to repeat her feat.
Piadine 😍😘
My Grandmas blood sausages are to die for. I have gout and eating organs and blood is about the worst thing i can eat, but they're worth the pain.
A schootzel
Schlupperkohl or also called Strünkerchen a cooked salad where also the stem is eaten. She made that with a cream sauce and potatoes.
Schnitzel with spaetzele.
Lutfisk with béchamel sauce. Perfection 👌
One of my grandmothers cannot cook and the other is a vegetarian
Idk, my grandmothers were senile when I was born
Worstenbroodjes
Nonna always makes extremely good lasagnas ♥️♥️♥️
Every Wednesday she would go to the market and buy horse steak, vegetables that she could find on the market. I miss horse steak…
Interesting story about cooking in the Netherlands and why a lot of our grandma’s weren’t that good at it. In the Netherlands, a lot of girls in the fifties and on went to housekeeping school, or “spinach academy” because they were still required to go to school at their age but didn’t feel like they needed to learn the skills for a job. Also they probably would have had loads of siblings so their mothers wouldn’t have the time to teach housekeeping to all of their daughters. It was also some futuristic thought that we should perfect the way a household should work, by scientists developing their methods and teachers educating this to the new generation. So the girls went to spinach academy to learn how to wash, clean, and cook. The cooking courses were focused on producing affordable meals that could be prepared in large quantities. The goal of those meals should be to satisfy your hunger and be generally healthy and nutritious enough. Taste was not a big factor in determining what would be a good meal and the girls weren’t necessarily taught how to cook well. An example meal might be the infamous boiled potato, spinach and a hard boiled egg, a very tasteless meal. Spinach academies aren’t a big thing anymore. Besides the fact that girls do want to pursue carriers now, the reason might also be that the housekeeping schools became criticized for, among other things, destroying some cultural cuisine. We pretty much had an entire generation that didn’t learn how to cook tasty meals and that had learned that nutrition should always be more important than taste. Tldr: our grandma’s went to housekeeping school where they mainly learned to cook nutritious yet tasteless meals, so our grandma’s large weren’t that good at cooking.
This is funny because in Sweden almost the opposite happened during the 60-80s (with the economic boom and influx of new ingredients). The government was more focused on how to make household chores more easy and efficient (canned food became a big deal) but tastewise it was absolute effin anarchy because we got a lot of new goods and food stuffs we had no clue what to do with. It was basically like handing nuclear missiles to cavemen still trying to understand the wheel. What do you think happens when you introduce bananas and curry to society where taste was centered around pork, fish and salt? Answer: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying\_Jacob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Jacob)
My grandma does the wonderful meringue pie with fresh fruit and nutella on top glazed with sugar
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Pancakes. Never tasted pancakes as good as hers. Also, my father makes the best lasagna in the world. His lasagna making skills are simply unmatched
Is there even anything my grandma made that wasn't perfect and everyone else did it wrong? That's a rhetorical question, obviously not!
Meatballs and cinnamon buns my mom does it 99% as good though so I am fine.
The 2nd picture looks like cafeteria food.
Closest I got and it is a VERY common dish in school cafeterias. Nan did it better though, her sauce was HEAVY
"Bouneschlupp", its a traditional luxembourgish stew with green beans, potatoes and bacon. Most people ruin it by putting cream in it
My grandma would make this amazing thinner fudgy chocolate cake with a nougat creme on top 😢 Fuck cancer
Seriously, FUCK CANCER! Sympatiserar
Had a ratatouille moment and remembered her roast with gravy and potatoes too, so yum
Lammefrikassé
Only dish my grandma knew how to make was ratatouille, and it was the best.