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In reply to the discussion: What odd, old-timey thing did your grandparents do to their food? [View all]crunch60
(1,412 posts)91. My Gram used to make blood soup, called Czernina.(polish) We would then take her home
Last edited Thu Apr 5, 2012, 07:55 PM - Edit history (1)
made bread, fry it in lard till it was kind of crispy, and then dunk it into the soup. yum! Good memories.
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My Gram used to make blood soup, called Czernina.(polish) We would then take her home
crunch60
Apr 2012
#91
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snagglepuss
Apr 2012
#11
I remember diner type restaurants in the Midwest serving jelly omelets:
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#49
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HopeHoops
Apr 2012
#121
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MiddleFingerMom
Apr 2012
#37
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Apr 2012
#31
My husband's family eats radish sandwiches, bread, butter salt & radish slices.
madmom
Apr 2012
#132
There are numerous political forums and thread at DU yet you click on one about
snagglepuss
Apr 2012
#42
I had that last night. We called it Milk macroni, with pepper, salt and butter.
crunch60
Apr 2012
#93
Hardboiled egg in the middle of meatloaf. I used to cook that for kids - called it a dinoturd.
MiddleFingerMom
Apr 2012
#41
Oh yeah. Putting all sorts of weird crap in Jello was the thing for awhile.
Arugula Latte
Apr 2012
#100
It's a post-war borrowing from European high cuisine, made easy by the proliferation of good fridges
JVS
Apr 2012
#118
This was a popular item in the a la carte lunch line when I was in high school:
1monster
Apr 2012
#50
She was western WI. Just farm country, the Depression and a culture's taste, I suspect.
Brickbat
Apr 2012
#83
In another post in this thread, I said we used to have sandwiches dipped in melted lard.
SwissTony
Apr 2012
#129
Family lore holds that my great-grandfather loved baked beans on chocolate cake.
Brickbat
Apr 2012
#76
My dad's mother made that silly glazed SPAM with the cloves, pineapple ring and cherry.
HopeHoops
Apr 2012
#88
It was more what my grandma called things. Butter or margarine was "oleo."
Arugula Latte
Apr 2012
#98
One of my grandmothers used to bake us cookies. They were bran cookies with raisins. We loved
applegrove
Apr 2012
#108
I love this thread!! The thing I remember most about my grandparents are the cocktails
Beaverhausen
Apr 2012
#125
Homemade bread, homemade butter, slice of cheddar and a big slice of Bermuda onion....
Scuba
Apr 2012
#139
My grandma always served homemade apple pie with a slice of sharp cheddar cheese.
VenusRising
Apr 2012
#158
Disobeyed all contemporary food safety guidelines to the point my mom wouldn't let us eat there
jmowreader
Apr 2012
#168