[Sca-cooks] Relatives and cooking

[Diana Skaggs]

Devra, this cracked me up. My mom is a good to great cook. Well known for
her baking, especially pies.  I got her crust recipe. I won't call it
"foolproof," but I've never had a problem. HER mother, however, made pie
crust that resembled shoe leather, although the fillings were wonderful.
And she was mean enough, you didn't want to let her CATCH you feeding the
crusts to the chickens! My personal opinion is she scrimped on the fat
content, probably due to the fact she raised her family on an Oklahoma farm
during the Depression, and didn't have a drop of anything to waste.

Liadan

At 10:50 PM 12/5/01 EST, you wrote:
>When people were answering the "Are You a Crazy SCA Cook" quiz, it seemed to
>me that quite a few people said that their mums couldn't make a pie crust to
>save their lives.  Is it then true that many of us come from non-cooking
>families, or not-such-great-cooks families?  My own mother was a perfectly
>competent cook, and a good baker, but couldn't make a pie crust TSHL...  HER
>mother, on the other hand, was one of those read-thru-it strudel-makers...
>Devra the Baker
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