tOfficial Night Shift Thread v59 - Now with less Reluctant Leaders

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Win TWINS!!! said:
Made a chicken potato gnocchi soup... sooo fucking good.



Gonna have to put this into my winter soup rotation. :heh:
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Damn, now I want to make my grandmother's gnocchi!
It's different from any other gnocchi I've ever had ... no potatoes are used, and it's baked with a kind of alfredo sauce.
It's a mess to make, but it is soooooooooooo good.
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
Damn, now I want to make my grandmother's gnocchi!
It's different from any other gnocchi I've ever had ... no potatoes are used, and it's baked with a kind of alfredo sauce.
It's a mess to make, but it is soooooooooooo good.
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The only thing I have of my grandmother's is her fudge recipe. She was a diner cook with 8 kids, so no specialties otherwise.

But that fudge is amazing. Buttery texture... so soft and creamy my dad carried it on, and now me. The only one of her kids/grandkids with a recipe in her handwriting. My aunts and uncles still ask me to make batches.... but it's been a couple years.
 
Win TWINS!!! said:
The only thing I have of my grandmother's is her fudge recipe. She was a diner cook with 8 kids, so no specialties otherwise.

But that fudge is amazing. Buttery texture... so soft and creamy my dad carried it on, and now me. The only one of her kids/grandkids with a recipe in her handwriting. My aunts and uncles still ask me to make batches.... but it's been a couple years.
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Sound yummy!
I'm the keeper of the family recipes. For years, I've been meaning to copy all of them and have them bound into a book for my brother. The main reason I haven't is because most of the recipes are in my grandmother's handwriting, and I'm the only one who can decipher it (plus, she used some kind of weird abbreviations), so each recipe would have to come with a kind of translation. Even my mama (her daughter) would call me to ask me what the hell something said or meant. A few of the recipes are my great and great great grandmother's. The best, not only because it's delicious, but because of how the recipe is written, is my great grandmother's Quick Kuchen. The baking instructions, and I kid you not, are only "bake until most done." There's no temperature, no indication as to how long it takes to get to "most done," and after it's "most done" and you put the topping on it, you put it back in the oven until "done." After my grandmother died, my mama and her cousin spent lots of time figuring out what temperature to bake it at and for how long. Those instructions are kept with the recipe, but the recipe in its original form has been preserved.
 
Is this a good pic to illustrate what udders are to a four year old?

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moxie said:
Is this a good pic to illustrate what udders are to a four year old?

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ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
The baking instructions, and I kid you not, are only "bake until most done." There's no temperature, no indication as to how long it takes to get to "most done," and after it's "most done" and you put the topping on it, you put it back in the oven until "done."
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Reading recipes from pre-WW2 are like entering a Twilight Zone. Until Betty Crocker came along, recipes were in code... especially old "church lady" cookbooks.

and then how "cheery," and geared towards women afterwards? 🤣

"Ladies, if you really want to turn up the heat in your kitchen and spice things up for your man....."
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
The baking instructions, and I kid you not, are only "bake until most done." There's no temperature, no indication as to how long it takes to get to "most done," and after it's "most done" and you put the topping on it, you put it back in the oven until "done."
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Just spit balling, but maybe baked in wood burning oven?
 
Win TWINS!!! said:
Reading recipes from pre-WW2 are like entering a Twilight Zone. Until Betty Crocker came along, recipes were in code... especially old "church lady" cookbooks.

and then how "cheery," and geared towards women afterwards? 🤣

"Ladies, if you really want to turn up the heat in your kitchen and spice things up for your man....."
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Our best guess for why there's no temperature or baking time on the Quick Kuchen recipe is that it's from the time before there were temperature gauges on ovens.
 
Win TWINS!!! said:
Just spit balling, but maybe baked in wood burning oven?
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We're thinking along the same lines.
I don't know "oven history," so I don't know when, for example, gas ovens became prevalent, or when temperature gauges were introduced, but yeah, I think it's just that the recipe is so old.
 
Win TWINS!!! said:
Reading recipes from pre-WW2 are like entering a Twilight Zone. Until Betty Crocker came along, recipes were in code... especially old "church lady" cookbooks.

and then how "cheery," and geared towards women afterwards? 🤣

"Ladies, if you really want to turn up the heat in your kitchen and spice things up for your man....."
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Go on, I'm listening.... *zipper noise*
 
I had to stop and shit at some country store in Williamsburg, Missouri. One of my buddies riding with me is about to get left here if he doesn’t hurry up.

Will say, the Mississippi River is more impressive in New Orleans than it is in St Louis.
 
Disinfect your balls, people!

That goes for you as well, Moxie.

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