SC - german/prussian recipe, help needed

[Helen]

I feel learning by watching oftentimes has it's advantages over learning by
reading.

Example:  My sister married a man from Louisiana who was raised in a home with a
wonderful cook and one of her "special dishes" was some crawfish dish (I can't
remember exactly what).  Well, she asked for the recipe and the cook wrote it
down for her.  She prepared it for her husband and he remarked that it was
"good", but not as good as good has the Cook's.  She tried again and again and
it was "close", no Crawfish Stew".  She finally figured out that he must have an
emotional attachment to the Cook's dish, 'cause hers was made "just like it".

Well, at a family get-together she sat in the kitchen watching the cook make the
dish.  The Cook put the crawfish in a pot of water and cooked them (just like
she had written down).  She then drained them (like she wrote), and prepared all
the rest of dish JUST like it had been written down.  Then she added the water,
just like she had written down:  "Add 2 quarts of water."  Only she took the
water from the pot where she had cooked the crawfish, not from the Tap like my
sister had thought she meant. BIG DIFFERENCE in the dish.  :-)

First time she made it back at home her husband was impressed that she "finally
got it right".  :-)

Rayne

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> I guess I am a half-spoon tease, then.
>
> I am working on putting my grandmothers recipe in
> written form, but I haven't finished it yet.  My
> mother learned the recipe from her mother, but hasn't,
> until
> now, been willing to show me how to make it.  Every
> time I asked, her response had been that it was just
> quicker to make them then to show me how.  But she is
> now 83 and I have been pressuring her to do so before
> it is too late and the recipe is lost.  I was hoping
> that I could speed the process by finding an already
> written recipe, because Mom makes these by feel rather
> than by recipe.  When I am satisfied with the recipe,
> I will post it.
>
> My grandmother used to make the best stollen, but my
> mother was never interested in learning how to make
> it, so that recipe has been lost for future
> generations.  I won't let this happen with this
> recipe!
>
> Huette
>
> --- LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 9/1/99 5:16:15 PM Eastern
> > Daylight Time,
> > ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > << Okay, I will bite ... what is a "spoon tease"?
> > >>
> >
> > It is what you call a person who has a recipe or
> > references a recipe that is
> > known but they do not post it to the list to share
> > with others. In this case,
> > the poster does not have a recipe but is seeking one
> > so I fail to see where
> > 'spoon tease' works. :-)
> >
> > Ras
> >
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