[Sca-cooks] Tricky question about relatives - sort OT, definitely OOP

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

My father is usually not allowed near the kitchen because his sense of
taste is shot from long years of smoking heavily and thus he oversalts
things to the point of inedibility. He is otherwise in charge of
barbecuing and egg foo yung, and claims to have taught my mother how to
make properly edible fried eggs.

Mom taught both her children to cook at an early age, and her parents
taught us to bake. Both my grandmothers and my mother are good cooks,
although not fancy stuff. All of us on Mom's side, except my sister, can
make good pie crust. It's a family joke at this point, that she missed out
on the pie crust gene.

I'm the only one that cooks "yuppie food", though, and I think I'm the
only one in the family who actually owns a pasta maker. But, I am an utter
failure at making stuffed cabbage rolls, so I suppose there's balance.

Margaret



On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 Devra at aol.com 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