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What's Old Is New Again
The Food Channel Call for Recipes
Ways to share:
Scan an old recipe, OR
Take a photograph of an old recipe, OR
Retype an old recipe.
Then simply attach to an email and send to Editor. Be sure to put Heirloom in the subject line.
We want to share your nostalgic recipes—the ones that conjure up memories from childhood. So submit your favorite, and, if it’s one of our favorites, we’ll post it on The Food Channel. We are looking for OLD recipes—ones that you grabbed from your grandmother’s belongings to remember her by, ones that are in a spidery handwriting that evokes warm thoughts of another era, or just ones that make you fondly remember your childhood.
For example, the following is a recipe I found in a little brown notebook that was among my Grandmother Compton’s things when she died. Many of the recipes have someone’s name beside them, showing where she got the recipe. I recognize many of the names–-Arlene was her neighbor, Aunt Clara was my Great-Great-Aunt. The book has recipes for things I’d never heard of, such as Paw-Paw Pudding, Head Cheese, and Pickled Pork. Here’s one that our chefs at The Food Channel made. Check out the updated recipe here!
Grandmother’s Pound Cake
Take 1 lb. butter, 1 lb. clarified sugar, 1 lb. flour, 9 large hen eggs and 1 tsp. rose water. (There is no BP or Soda in this recipe – such were not to be had in Grandmother’s day). Beat the butter to a cream. Beat in sugar and yolks of eggs and rose water. Stir well-– stir in well-beaten egg whites. Pour into pan and bake slowly till light brown.
Another example can be found in our recipes section, submitted by someone who remembers her mother baking these brownies when she hosted a children’s segment on TV in the ’60s.
Submit YOUR favorite old recipe directly to info@foodchannel.com, along with a short story about where you got the recipe. Submission means you are giving us permission to re-create the recipe, make changes and updates to the recipe, and, perhaps, use it (along with your name and story) in a future Food Channel cookbook. And if you have a photo, send it along. We’ll look forward to sharing your memories!