When I was dating my husband, I had the privilege of meeting his grandparents. They are the neatest grandparents I'd ever met. However, it wasn't long after I'd first met them that their health started to deteriorate. Fortunately, I was able to receive a first hand lesson from grandma about how to make her famous cinnamon rolls.
Grandma's cinnamon rolls are what dreams are made of. In the eyes of my husband, there are no other rolls. My son craves their sweetness. As soon as he was big enough to pull open the deep freezer door, I knew that our days of keeping cinnamon rolls around were gone.
Cinnamon rolls only come around when it's the holidays, or special occasions, so needless to say as soon as November rolled around, I started making rolls.
The recipe grandma used is top secret. When I said my marriage vows, I was sworn in as a "Keeper of the Rolls". If it wasn't for this one small issue I would share the cinn-a-love with you my reader. But, I think if I were to divulge, I would have two very angry Aunts flying in from Kansas to teach me a thing or two about tradition.
So even though these are not the rolls my family dreams, of, they are pretty good.
Even though I'm not quite sharing our family's traditional recipe, I'm curious. What are your traditional family recipes?
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My favorite family recipe is the family recipe for Amish date pudding. Another Grandma Beachey famous holiday dish we only ate at thanksgiving and Christmas. I remember the day, about 12 years ago, I was making it, and you quietly walked into my kitchen w/ Phil. He tried to explain what this date pudding was really all about and how grand it was. You looked a little green, trying to be polite, like "do i have too?"
The big day came and you were introduced to our amish generational food finery. you took one taste and said "that's date pudding? you didn't tell me it was cake and whipped cream." I still laugh about it. I was once a city slicker kid like you 36 yrs ago and had the same reaction. "Do i have to eat date pudding? yuck"
The above comment is from Carries mother in law. PAULA
Mmm, that picture makes my mouth water. :-) My family has traditionally made buttermilk cookies at Christmas time. They're sort of like sugar cookies, only a lot softer. My mom used to buy a jug of buttermilk, and we'd make cookies until the buttermilk was gone. Needless to say, we ended up with a year's worth of cookies. (But they only lasted about a month.) :-)
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