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Help finding my Grandma's creamed spinach recipe

My favorite Thanksgiving dish was my Grandma's creamed spinach. My aunt wrote down her recipes before she died, but the creamed spinach recipe is sadly not right. I suspect it is from a cookbook or magazine (unless she got it from a friend), as she was not an improviser. Does anyone recognize this recipe or have better Google-fu than me?

I figured out that it's based on Julia Child's bechamel sauce (second and third paragraphs), but I can't find a matching Julia Child recipe for creamed spinach.

Grandma Wini’s Creamed Spinach

• 5 packages of frozen chopped Spinach, thawed.

(1 package of chopped spinach serves 3 people.)

• 2 cups Half and Half

• 1/4 tsp. Salt

• 3 Tbs. Flour

• 2 Tbs. Butter

• Salt

• Onion cut in half

Drain spinach and squeeze well with paper towels to get all water out. Heat milk and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a saucepan to the boil.

In another saucepan over low heat, melt butter, add flour, blend together. Cook slowly, stirring, until the butter and flour froth together for 2 minutes without coloring. This is now a white roux. Remove from heat.

As soon as the roux has stopped bubbling, gradually pour in the hot milk. Mix vigorously with a wire whip to blend. Return to moderately high heat and stir constantly until sauce is thick and smooth.

Add chopped spinach to sauce and cook, stirring for 3 minutes. Then with a vegetable peeler, scrape cut half of onion, adding bits of onion and juice to mixture. Mix well. Taste to adjust for salt and pepper. Serves 15.

4 Comments
2024/12/01
20:45 UTC

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Cornmeal Dumplings with Jiffy Muffin Mix

Has anybody ever made cornmeal dumplings with Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix instead of cornmeal? I thought there was an old recipe somewhere, but I’ve only seen one using Jiffy Mix(same as Bisquick). Any help is tremendously appreciated.

TIA

6 Comments
2024/12/01
20:37 UTC

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Traditional Kuzumochi (葛餅) anyone? Its a dessert

FYI ingredients may be somewhat difficult to get but otherwise pretty simple

For the Mochi itself:

・Water: 200ml ・Kudzu powder: 40g For the Black Sugar Syrup:

・Water: 40ml ・Black sugar: 40g

For the Kinako (Roasted Soybean Flour) Topping:

・Kinako: Adjust depending on your taste. ・Sugar: Adjust depending on your taste.

5 Comments
2024/12/01
19:22 UTC

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Looking for long lost recipe box and apple crisp recipe...

Hi everyone,

I know this is quite a long shot, but I wanted to give it a try anyway. My partner's family lost their grandmother's beloved recipe box (big and brown is the only description I've heard), and they suspect that her husband gave it away after she passed, along with some other things of hers that were too painful to keep around.

One recipe in particular that my partner's mom misses is the apple crisp recipe, which is unlike any others she has found/tried. I doubt I'll be able to find the box or the recipe after so many years, but I couldn't help looking to see if maybe someone had listed it on eBay or shared the recipes somewhere if they found it in a thrift store or something similar.

The last name associated with the box and recipes, if included, would be Young. The box would have been given away somewhere in California, but I'm not sure of the year yet and will edit to include when I find out.

I appreciate any help anyone can offer :) Thanks so much!

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2024/12/01
18:31 UTC

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Burnt Sugar Cake

Recipe for Burnt sugar cake that my great aunt remember her grandmother making. I am planning in making it for her next summer when we visit.

5 Comments
2024/12/01
18:10 UTC

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Burnt sugar cake

My great grandmother used to make a burnt sugar cake for my mom for her birthday every year. Unfortunately I never got to taste hers, but my mom always talked about it. My grandmother had the recipe, and we made it one year together for my mom. The recipe was for the cake and the icing. Unfortunately my grandmother passed and nobody will say what happened to her recipes. I think my mom had it, but she never made this specific cake. My dad passed shortly after my mom this year and my niece ended up with all of my mom’s recipes. I’ve asked her for several of them, but she isn’t really into sharing. My grandma also made carrot pudding every year for Christmas and I would love to make some for my family this year. Does anyone have either of these recipes?

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2024/12/01
14:38 UTC

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Recipe that uses Butter Brickle

I’m looking for a recipe that was made in a 9x13 dish, it is layered, and had a bottom crust. One layer was some sort of fruit (maybe apples?). The most memorable was one of the layers called for a softened 1/2 gallon of Butter Brickle ice cream.

I remember softening the ice cream, spreading it as a layer, and once everything was assembled, you baked it in the oven.

It may have had a crumble top.

It was a great recipe, but I could never find Butter Brickle ice cream. The other day, I saw the ice cream and really wished I still had the recipe.

I was in Canada when last I had this dessert, but that was 35 years ago. This dessert was so good that I remember how good it was after all this time. I don’t remember the recipe, though.

Thank you in advance.

4 Comments
2024/12/01
05:46 UTC

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Cranberry pie. picked up this recipe from our pastor's wife at the church when I was little.

one 16 oz can cranberry sauce, one 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk, one 8 oz package cream cheese, one teaspoon lemon juice, one teaspoon vanilla extract. blend in a blender until smooth and then pour into a graham cracker pie crust and freeze overnight.

41 Comments
2024/12/01
05:05 UTC

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Looking for a 1970s (or earlier) Cookie Recipe: coconut, orange zest, dates

We used to make a cookie (in the US) during the holidays in the 1970s, perhaps earlier, for which we’re trying to locate the recipe. We think it may have originally been found in a magazine or newspaper. The closest we’ve found is an Ambrosia cookie, but that is not it.

It was a drop cookie that contained: butter, sugar (not brown sugar), flour, eggs, coconut, orange zest and dates. May have also contained oats.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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2024/12/01
03:25 UTC

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My sister's amaretto soaked cake recipe

I'm wondering if anyone has an old recipe for amaretto soaked cake? My sister made the absolute best amaretto cakes at the holidays and my kids have been asking for one but I cannot find a recipe anywhere that is similar to the one my sis made.

She died during the pandemic and I would love to make some for the family. She made them in small bread pans and soaked them for a week or more in an amaretto syrup. They had walnuts on the bottom I believe, also.

Thank you so much for any help

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2024/12/01
01:44 UTC

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Vintage Rhode Island clam cake recipe

Please help! When I was a kid, I remember spending summers with my dad's family in Rhode Island, and we'd go to a place called Rocky Point and have New England clam chowder with clam cakes. This was the late 60's, and I can tell you - I can't remember one amusement ride from that place but those clam cakes have haunted me for years! They were absolutely delicious!

Here's my issue - I'm looking to replicate these clam cakes, but the recipes I find always have the "Here's my twist" from some overactive chef. I appreciate the creativity, but I'm not interested in all that. I want the vintage recipe if possible. If anyone here is from New England (or R.I.), or has a cookbook from that area, do you have a recipe for me? Yes, I have googled, and I've watched zillions of YouTube videos but they all have the same issue. Not willing to sacrifice my clams experimenting. LOL.

I don't recall yeast, cornmeal, sauteed vegetables or anything else in them.

Can anyone help?

22 Comments
2024/11/30
19:44 UTC

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Yet another Blanc Manger (c. 1550)

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2024/11/30
19:04 UTC

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Sometimes I question these old recipes……circa 1958 - Good Housekeeping

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2024/11/30
14:05 UTC

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I make the pumpkin pie apple butter filling posted by u/Spare-Magazine6223

8 Comments
2024/11/30
06:53 UTC

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Help me find an "old" cake recipe using canned blueberries - not pie filling!

It was suggested that I post this problem in here, so here goes. The short story is my MIL is looking for a recipe circa 1940s/50s that was for blueberry cake using canned blueberries, NOT pie filling. I want to help her find it and I'm struggling, but surely one of you have it!!!!

The long story is she's been looking through all of her old cookbooks trying to find this cake she remembers that uses canned blueberries (not pie filling), and the rest of the cake is from scratch (no cake or pudding mix). She's thinking the more she looks and not finding it that she somehow donated the recipe book containing it and is pretty bummed about it. She remembers baking it in a Bundt pan. I've scoured the Internet, but apparently my Boolean search skills are subpar and I can't find anything. Please share and help me with any cake recipe you've got using canned blueberries with no mixes, that is not a dump cake, and might be circa just after WWII when canned everything was in high fashion. Alternatively, share any tasty old cake recipe you've got that calls for plain canned blueberries.

Many thanks in advance!!!! Who knew tinned blueberries were hard to come by nowadays? I'd probably drop them in a muffin or pancakes... Krusteaz I think had a blueberry muffin mix that had a tin of berries in it... anyway, she's stuck on the cake idea. Please help me!

28 Comments
2024/11/30
03:00 UTC

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October 29, 1940: Coconut Chocolate Loaf & Vanilla Cream Frosting

4 Comments
2024/11/29
22:44 UTC

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Parsnip stuffing

Hello! I went to Thanksgiving and my MIL has always made parsnip stuffing that her aunt used to make. MIL's in her early 70s, aunt has been gone more than 25 years so this recipe is old. Unfortunately she lost the recipe in a move. I was hoping maybe I could find it here. All I remember about it was it had Ritz crackers, MSG and parsnips. Any ideas? Thanks.

7 Comments
2024/11/29
21:05 UTC

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Freezer pie

So my mom’s been bringing this pie recipe to family gatherings for as long as I can remember. She insists it sets just fine in the fridge, yet literally every time I’ve seen it served it was soupy. We tried freezing this time and apparently it was set while frozen but melted almost immediately. My question is, can anybody think of something that may be missing out of this recipe to make it not set? I’d love to make it myself someday (and actually have it work).

For clarification, the “can lemonade” refers to a can of frozen pink lemonade concentrate, which apparently have doubled in size since the recipe got written, so you actually double every ingredient but that.

21 Comments
2024/11/29
17:11 UTC

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What’s the weirdest vintage recipes you’ve made?

https://youtu.be/UirCvNJlRLc?si=jKu5iI-Wa_TjprIz

I’m a bit of a fan of vintage recipes, especially aspics but I’ve never made or eaten one. I’d love to make a wild vintage recipe for a video and eanted to see if anyone here has any recommendations for especially freaky food or aspics. Thanks! ✌️

41 Comments
2024/11/29
15:08 UTC

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I tried the recipe "Nana's Devil Chocolate Cake" from this sub and it was a success

Found this chocolate cake recipe on this sub and decided to try it out! The comments mentioned cake flour vs all purpose. I live in the UK and have never heard of cake flour but by chance I happened upon this pastry and cake flour by Caputo the Italian flour maker. I decided to give it a go with that. I also substituted the oil for butter. I started out by creaming the butter and sugar, sifting all the dry ingredients together, then pouring in the coffee/milk with each egg to the creamed butter and sugar and adding the dry mix gradually and whisking as I went.

The recipe yields a huge portion. I used a bundt cake tin and added cream cheese icing over the top to balance out the chocolate flavour. This icing with the cake was such a good combo and I would make add more icing the next time I make this cake. I would also like to see how the cake turns out with all purpose flour.

Overall a lovely recipe.

Straight out of the oven

With the cream cheese icing and dusted with cocoa powder and icing sugar

Link to the original recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/Old_Recipes/comments/jd3hf3/known_only_as_nanas_devils_food_best_chocolate/

10 Comments
2024/11/29
11:51 UTC

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