Awww. Mama never used lard but She had a drippings container on the stove where all the bacon grease went. I have it now, don't use it but just to remember her by. My mouth is watering over those pie crusts.
I would give anything to have one of mama's homemade yeast rolls right now. She gave me the recipe but it was just a list of ingredients. She forgot the directions. LOL
She had three stoves. One in the kitchen, her old one in the basement from before daddy remodeled her kitchen which was used for baking biscuits or rolls when the other oven was full. She also had a wood cookstove out in what we called the pavilion. It was an outside screenhouse but had its own bathroom, it's own kitchen sink and refrigerator and the wood stove. She learned to cook on a wood cookstove and swore everything tasted better cooked on a wood stove.
I know. I don't have a wood cookstove but I have a woodstove that I can cook on and in. It has a cooking panel on the top and that lifts to reveal a grill inside. It is also one heck of a good woodstove. Mom mostly used hers for bread and it was wonderful.
I was thinking about this, spurred I'm sure by your comments about Grandma Dog's pie crust. Mom was a depression baby and never wasted anything. When she made pies, she took the scraps of leftover pie crust, rolled it out, sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar, rolled that up and cut it into 1 inch pinwheels and baked them. They were so good.
...she would put those "cookies" in a bread bag, fill a mason jar with kool aid, wrap it with aluminum foil then send me off for my own private picnic....
...those memories they created for us are an inheritance of untold value....
...oh God...
...and everything cooked with lard of bacon grease (renderings)...
...Grandma Dog's ice water/lard pie crusts...
...now you got me crying.....
Awww. Mama never used lard but She had a drippings container on the stove where all the bacon grease went. I have it now, don't use it but just to remember her by. My mouth is watering over those pie crusts.
I would give anything to have one of mama's homemade yeast rolls right now. She gave me the recipe but it was just a list of ingredients. She forgot the directions. LOL
She had three stoves. One in the kitchen, her old one in the basement from before daddy remodeled her kitchen which was used for baking biscuits or rolls when the other oven was full. She also had a wood cookstove out in what we called the pavilion. It was an outside screenhouse but had its own bathroom, it's own kitchen sink and refrigerator and the wood stove. She learned to cook on a wood cookstove and swore everything tasted better cooked on a wood stove.
...find a yeast roll recipe and incorporate your Mama's ingredients into it...
...and yes, your Mother was right, food, especially bread, tastes better cooked in a wood stove.....
I know. I don't have a wood cookstove but I have a woodstove that I can cook on and in. It has a cooking panel on the top and that lifts to reveal a grill inside. It is also one heck of a good woodstove. Mom mostly used hers for bread and it was wonderful.
I was thinking about this, spurred I'm sure by your comments about Grandma Dog's pie crust. Mom was a depression baby and never wasted anything. When she made pies, she took the scraps of leftover pie crust, rolled it out, sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar, rolled that up and cut it into 1 inch pinwheels and baked them. They were so good.
...Grandma Dog did the same thing...
...she would put those "cookies" in a bread bag, fill a mason jar with kool aid, wrap it with aluminum foil then send me off for my own private picnic....
...those memories they created for us are an inheritance of untold value....