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Tammy O'Brien's (like Bailey's) Irish Cream
1 3/4 c. Irish whiskey
1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
1 c. whipping cream
4 eggs
2 tbsp. chocolate flavored syrup
2 tsp. instant coffee
1 tsp. coconut extract
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
In blender combine all ingredients until smooth. Store in a tight container in refrigerator.
Thank you! I wish I had one in my hand right now.
Velinka Vlaskovich's Non-bake Fudge Cookies
In a medium size sauce pan, combine 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 cup cocoa, 1 stick butter or margarine. Boil for two minutes, pour in 3 cups quick oatmeal. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and if desired, 1/2 cup peanut butter, nuts or coconut. Mix well and drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Cool until firm enough to pick up and eat!
*note: Velinka Vlaskovich O'Brien was my ex-mother-in-law 35 years ago. She passed away a few years ago along with her dear husband, Robert Rea O'Brien. They will both be sorely missed by their family and all the friends made over many years. God bless and thank them for teaching me so much about cooking and being a part of a family. I still have the original recipe card from her and as much as I treasure it you have given me a great idea. I'm going to make an original family cookbook for my oldest daughter as a gift to hand down to her children. Thanks. FTR, I know this wasn't her own invention but it is a family heirloom:)
People they say imitation is the best form of flattery...oh and just so you know (for those who don't even share with your family) when you die they (your family) will be going to you home to divy up your things and someone will get the recipe anyway...also if CNN made a book out of the recipes on here I WOULD BUY IT...so yea I just thought I would enlighten some people real quick but this is just my opinion. Good eats to you all!
My mother got a recipe for apple butter years ago and shared it with a relative who later entered it in a cooking contest. She won second place at the county fair and my mom is so bitter about it, she wont even share the recipe with her own children since! I LOVE sharing recipes so much, I created my own website for everyone to share and see. I feel proud when someone makes one of my dishes and would feel even prouder if it won a contest!
Fluffy Raspberry Dessert
This dessert recipe will keep for up to 3 months in your freezer, well wrapped. It's fluffy, sweet, and fruity – the perfect end to any meal.
Prep Time: 35 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup brown sugar
1-1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
10 oz. pkg. frozen raspberries, thawed
2 pasteurized egg whites
1 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In large bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, flour, and nuts until crumbly. Spread crumbs in 9×13" pan (do not press down). Bake, stirring twice during baking time, until crumbs are light golden brown, 10-15 minutes. Cool until you're able to handle the crumbs; reserve 1/2 cup. Press remaining crumbs into bottom of pan.
In large bowl, combine remaining ingredients except whipped cream. With electric mixer, beat this mixture for 15-20 minutes until stiff peaks form. The mixture will increase in volume, almost filling the bowl. Fold in whipped cream and spread on crumbs on pan. Top with remaining crumbs, cover, and freeze at least 8 hours before serving. Serves 12-15
Well thank you for that! I do believe I'll attempt this on the weekend.
Making my own family traditions at http://www.mommacooks.net
We asked for recipes to add to a family cookbook, with our 'save the dates' for our wedding 2 years ago. We had a great recipe from an great aunt on the east coast for poppyseed chicken, and now i can't locate it.
but we've received a lot of great family recipes this way. maybe everyone should try a 'secret santa' approach and trade recipes that way. so you won't know which family member gave you the recipe, and it's still somewhat of a 'secret' to others.
They lost me at "rockstar" I HATE when people use that term! So lame–I did read the comments and couldn't agree more with the "not sharing" crowd. Why do so many people feel that everything has to be out there in the open? Why must we share everything? I would never share with strangers....
OK, im giving away the farm here. for your green bean casserole, forget the cream of mushroom soup and use cream of celery. i get complements every time i bring it somewhere and gladly share the recipe. the only problem i have had it that the store is sold out of cream of celery, because they stock up on only the cream of mushroom
It's not so much a matter of being selfish as being savvy. The fact is that someone is going to grab the recipes and make money off of them, either the person who collected them or whomever yanks them off the web. It's one thing to give a friend your mother's favorite recipe, but it's quite another to find that recipe in another format probably presented as someone else's grandmother's favorite recipe. Treasured recipes deserve better. In any case, most of our grandparent's recipes were not their original creations, but came out of cookbooks and magazines. Copyright should be fun.
not sharing for someone else to make hundreds of thousands, sorry.
who says your recipe is worth hundreds of thousands anyway? get real
Thank you!
Of course this company will profit, they will end up making a book and selling it will all the recipes they've collected or profit from ad revenue. GOOD LUCK LOL
Wow! Some of the folks on here get really testy about sharing. I'm grateful that I get to eat three meals a day – I don't care where the recipe came from. Most people on this planet don't live as well as we do. If you don't want to share your recipes, how about sharing a little money with the less fortunate? Lots of good charities out there that need your help.
Blessings,
Dan
Amen, Dan!
I would love to have some of my grandmothers recipes, but she never wrote any of them down, she knew them all in her head. No one thought to ask her to write them down, and I was only 9 when she died. Wish I had but I was to busy chasing her chickens and ducks. How she could cook on that old wood stove........great memories. I write my recipes down and always more than willing to share, my children have their favorites and hopefully they will pass them on to their children. How selfish not to share, you rob future generations in your family of the family traditions.
I have a collection of Junior League Cook books. I have found them to have some of the best family recipes ever
Yes, Pioneer... The community cookbooks are by far the best and you're very likely to see some heirlooms included in them. My mother was a great cook who loved trying new recipes and some of her favorite sources were the community cookbooks. For the most part my grandmother didn't write down her recipes as she cooked by instinct however, any time I asked her to write down a recipe she was glad to oblige. I have her handwritten recipe for gingerbread that I dearly treasure. She mailed it to me one year during Christmas. Miss her so much.
I have never understood why anyone would not want to share a recipe with their own friends (or even family!). THAT is nothing but pure selfishness. I have never refused to share a recipe, even my original ones or favorite family heirloom recipes.
I actually WANT as many people as possible to enjoy my recipes. So what if another family member decides to take it on as their special dish at gatherings. Who cares. I'd rather be remembered as a great cook who was always willing to share and teach than the hateful ol' biddy who cared more about trying to be top dog than she did about her own family and friends.
Shoot, if I were at a gathering with friends/family and someone asked for a recipe and the cook refused, I'd purposely gag on my food and say, "Ewww....WHAT is in this?!? Sorry, I just don't care for this dish at ALL," just to mortify the hateful sourpuss. And someone earlier was right - most of the recipes we all have weren't our own or our mothers' or grandmothers' own concoctions to start with anyway. Luckily for the selfish ones, their ancestors weren't so stingy!
I wonder if people who won't share with their own families realize how that makes them look to the entire family. Doesn't make you look like a superior cook; makes you look like the total witch that you actually are!
I had a friend ask me to make something for her husband's birthday party because she was injured and could not do the things she would normally do. I made a dish for her according to her recipe. She asked me not to share the recipe because it was going to be a gift to someone. I didn't share it, but I did go to recipezaar and find a recipe that was pretty much the same thing. When people asked for the recipe, I'd tell them to look up that recipe on the website. That way, I didn't give the recipe away, but people still had the information. People, really... hoarding recipes? How sad.
You want my recipes, you pay for them.
i have a friend that is reluctant to give out her recipies. so, at get togethers where there is a potluck and recipe exchanges nites, she will make her dish with her recipe and on the card with the recipe on it, she will leave out at least one of the ingredients. that way, it will never be the same as what she made.
NICE BUNCH OF YA'LL... damn ...lol...bitchy people make me laugh–
I think I'll share my moms recipe for shut up and eat. Its a real recipe.
Geez....such anger over sharing of recipes....I absolutely love when someone asks me for my recipe for something, it is a compliment to my cooking, and I am ALWAYS willing to share!
I have the exact same recipe box that was featured at the top of this article. It was given to my partner years ago by his mom!
Can't we just all get along! It's just a receipe, not an oil spill.
I've got one family recipe I occasionally share because I always get compliments on it. Grandma doesn't care if I share it. Share it on the Internet? Yea, right!
OMG: where did you get my Mom's recipe box?
ummm, go to allrecipes.com done. There people SHARE their family recipes and people can comment on what they did differently or changed to make the recipe "better". Seriously, get a new idea CNN.
the funny thing is most of those heirloom (and pass down) recipes are stolen or "borrowed" anyhow. very few of them are so unique that your grandma or great-grandma (not saying they don't exist, but they're rare - especially if they survived until 2010). i have been going through my grandmother's recipes after she died. just because it's handwritten doesn't mean it wasn't copied. if you enjoy them, someone else might, too. stingy people. this is an invitation to share something.
Exactly. I TOTALLY agree. I always hand write my recipes when I copy them. I just like a neat looking recipe box :- D
HAHA! Exactly! There are very few things original to anyone. Not to break your heart, but granny might have 'fudged' the truth. Everything is basically made the same way from the same basic components. And people add or subtract or modify, so, if your recipe wasn't just an interpretation of someone elses, don't think for one second you were the only person in the world to think to do it that way.
PRIZED recipes??? Really people? Doubt it.
Where the heck do you think real GOOD food comes from?
Here's an easy recipe but not a family secret
1 bag frozen or fresh tortellini
1 jar alfredo sauce
1 bag shredded mozzarella cheese
Add some olive oil to the bottom of a square glass baking dish. Cook tortellini to package instructions, drain, and place in dish. Pour alfredo sauce over tortellini. Top with mozzarella cheese. Bake uncovered in a 450-500 degree oven, about 20 minutes until golden and bubbly. Simple and delicious!
I'm not sharing...not even with family and friends. I don't want someone to make a profit off the recipe (like you were ever going to market it). Some of you people have some serious issues.....
Once I had a wonderful, easy recipe for Pecan Praline Cheesecake Pie. Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe. I did not share. Soon I lost the recipe and have never been able to find it again. I learned the hard way to share.
The problem with this project is that it requires a hand-written recipe. Many if not most of the BEST family recipes are not written down. May children learned how to cook a dish at their mother's side, who learned it from her mother, etc.
My mom has always made what I think are the absolute best lemon meringue pie and banana pudding in the world. Never once has she had a recipe for them. However, I finally cajoled her into figuring out the measurements and writing them down for me before they are lost forever. Although hand-written, they were written split front-back, with a couple of things needing clarifying, so I took them, cleaned them up, and typed them up into a doc on my computer. But alas, these great recipes are eligible for this project.
I mean these great recipes are NOT eligible for this project.
So many family recipes are lost because they were never written down. I cannot stress enough how much I believe in people just grabbing a camera and going to the kitchen with older relatives and having them talk their way through a dish. Sure, future generations won't know how the dough consistency felt or have Grandma's hands helping them make the gnocchi, but every bit of history helps.
Good lord! You'd think this was a political thread. Lighten up, people!
Some of you folks have awesome egos. I'm suprised you're even typing here considering your words will be cherished for centuries to come!
NOM NOM NOM – yummy narcissism.
LOL!
I'm wondering how some of these paranoid people sleep at night...
lol. Some people....just weird.
Jessi-Rene if you can find a really old Betty Crocker cookbook from back in the 50's you would love it. I have one from an old now defunct library (I bought it) and the recipe's are fabulous. It even has section telling you what to use in place of some ingredients if you are unable to obtain them. The pictures are a hoot too!
Didnt think about that. I have a very new Betty Crocker cook book, and some things in it are pretty good, but its all still pretty generic and basic. I've learned to make some modifications to make things my own or suit my taste (but OH LORD NO I'M NOT TELLING ANYONE! LOL) but the 'in place of' thing sounds pretty helpful. I'm actually excited about this whole project here!!!
I like Better Homes and Gardens Cookbooks, because they have so many good recipes and you can get anniversary editions and older editions on amazon.com and sites like that. If you have kids I would definetly suggest their Anyone Can Cook and Anyone Can Bake because it is the basics. I bought one for myself just so that I could have those basic reminders and techniques to reference and there are some tasty recipes too.
Those who are suspicious have every right to be....they don't want favorite recipes because of a possible flood of copyright violations....they want your original heirloom recipes to post forever as you are agreeing to have them re-posted without violation and as a lure to make a profit – not necessarily directly, but through advertising and sponsors. I love sharing and have shared my old family recipes with family, through my website, and on my own blog.....but be smart and share in a place that does not want them to so obviously make a profit off of them. Not only will CNN be making a profit, but don't be surprised if your old family recipes suddenly appear as wonderful "new" creations by some established chefs or chef personalities out there....or in a new book....without giving your ancestor or family any credit......because you just gave them permission to do so!
I am currently studying to become a chef, and I plan to own my own restaurant. If I were to find a recipe I like that was someone else's family heirloom I would use it yes, but I would not call it new and I would not take the credit for creating it because that is selfish and the whole point of making food or becoming a chef (in my opinion) is to bring people together and to spread love, make memories, and truly enjoy your food. I think it is important to share with others if a recipe was that special and made you and your family feel that good why would you not want to give others a chance to share in that feeling. I got my love of cooking from my grandfather who passed a while back and I got his recipes; my grandfather loved to cook and bring us together as a family he did not love the recipes themselves but what they brought us...and so I think that those recipes were important simply because they helped create memories, but the memories are the family heirloom that I would never let anyone have because you can't give up those memories but you can make new ones with new people family or not.
I'm in agreement with the majority view here. To openly distribute something that is precious to one's family, is to act on behalf of the entire family without consulting them. There is a HUGE difference between (a) actions stemming from a generosity that is willing to "share" for the common good and/or to meet a need, and (b) flippantly giving away something deemed precious by one's own family (which itself is precious and is to be honored) in order that someone else outside of the family may financially profit from it. My Great-Grandma was a great, godly, caring, sweet lady, but I feel sure she would be neither pleased nor amused at my extra-familial sharing of what was dear to her for someone else's greed for mammon. :-)
Put that way, slightly understandable. And your in agreeance, so you probably wont be participating. Which is fine, but your not here saying its a 'dumb stupid idea' or complaining about it or making it some weird conspiracy against sweet ol ladies around the world. You simply stated WHY.
The rest of the family can choose what they want to do with it, but you, as an individual have your own choice.
Stingy people-
Bacon wrapped water chestnuts; can of chestnuts, wrap in bacon, stick w/toothpick, bake at 350 for about 7 min, top w/ BBQ sauce (craked pepper-even better). Better make a bunch, they go quick!
Your secret recipes may not suit someone else's taste. You think it's awesome but others might not think so ... so those who wants to take their secret recipes to the grave, by o means, do it! It will not hurt or harm anyone
You Love to eat, atleast you should know that, passing down and sharing family recipes is like inviting someone to share something really special.
I think this is a great idea! My Nana was an amazing cook, and she was always happy to share her fantastic recipes with anyone who asked. I'll be looking for a few of her melt-in-your-mouth recipes to post!!
I have a potluck recipe. It's in my pants yo!!!
That doesn't sound delicious :(
That was funny
I'm not sure that vienna sausage from a can is a potluck recipe! ;-)
I think it is kind of shameful that people are more concerned about someone else profiting from these heirloom recipes than being selfless enough to recognize what these recipes contribute to our culture and our history. Food brings people together and helps in the creation of memories. Who cares if someone else brings the same dish to your potluck meal? Think of the special times you could be helping create for other families. I don't have any hand-me-down recipes, but I would like to think that if I did, I would be happy to pass on my family's traditions as well as making sure that those cherished recipes would not die with me.
Some of you are slightly too intense on this subject. Do it, or don't do it, who really cares? I personally think its a nice idea, not having any 'passed down' recipes I'd love to get something more authentic than some garbage from a 'Betty Croker' cook book. Most of us are nostalgic for the creations our grannies cooked because they made it with love :) And sharing those memories with people is a wonderful thing. Some of your disagreements are pretty vane and arrogant (the 'someone showed up with the same thing I did' BooHooHoo). Really, you turned a church pot luck in to a competition? But if that's the way you feel, I'm not going to cry about not knowing the secrete to your great-grans brown betty.
Food is supposed to satisfy and nourish you. The act of cooking is not only a necessity for sustainment, but also an expression of how you care about those you serve. And if your digging deeper in to those meanings then you learned absolutely nothing from those close family dinners that your granny slaved over.
Amen! We're seeking to celebrate the cooks and emphasize the importance of our culinary heritage and strengthen the ties between generations. That's it. No ulterior motives. Sharing is caring.
Thank you Kat. Someone mentioned something about not even sharing a recipe with family or friends, so, how does your tradition live on? Once the last person who was served something wonderful you created is gone, no one will have the means to remember you for what you cooked. Its not like children are going to sit around telling stories about some meal their grandfather told them about that you may have cooked 50 years ago. So, how else would you perpetuate that food bliss? Sounds like they are more concerned with 'being the best, period, forever' then the meaning behind why they were given those recipes in the first place.
Do you live in SF? If so, I may know you.
Preach it sista! I agree!!! If you're gonna be stingy and psycho about other people cooking your recipes don't bother posting.
yeah right. not everyone is so dumb to make someone else rich on their creativity and cherished recipes.
insanity. So, you should apply for a patent (or whatever) for all of your recipes and sue anyone who cooks anything the way you do, make a big legal deal out of it. REALLY PEOPLE? Just don't submit your stuff to IReport and leave it at that, complaining about it is pretty silly.
I have given all my Mother's and Grandmother's written recipes to my daughter. They are so old and faded they would not scan and copy. However, I do share them because they are so good I could care less if someone uses them for a potluck I will attend. An example:
In a heavy deep skillet (cast iron or aluminum) saute and equal amounts (1 cup) of chopped onions and green pepper. Add half as much celery, 1 tbs chopped garlic, 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes and 3 bay leaves. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add 1 lb crawfish/shrimp, 2 tbs salsa, 1/4 cup red dry wine, 1/2 cup water (preferably after boiling crawfish or shrimp shells), salt and pepper to taste. Cook about 10 minutes on simmer. This is etoufee and should be served over rice. Add 1/4 cup chopped green onion tops and 2 tsp chopped parsley just before removing from heat. Vary spices according to tastes
I forgot, thicken with 2 or 3 tbs of roux. (flour browned in 2 tbs oil before sauteing vegetables)
OH! That sounds DELICIOUS! Thank you so much for sharing that ;) I'm trying this out this weekend!
(now I'm going to go become a billionaire off of your etoufee recipe, muhahahhaha!!! LOL!)
Jesse, every Cajun or Creole knows that recipe and how to modify it in various tasty ways. Add more roux and chicken broth and chicken pieces to make chicken gumbo. (never ever add okra to a file gumbo) and serve it like a soup with a little file' and a little rice. Or add a cup or two of diced tomato for creole, or in the oil before adding the flour to brown, add 2 teaspoons corriandar, 1 tsp tumeric, 2 whole cloves, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1/2 tsp blk pepper corns and salt and pepper to taste. Add this to the etoufee recipe and voila, masala. Simmer until chicken is done or again add shrimp/crawfish and simmer 10 minutes before serving.
Oh DNSmith! Sounds absolutely heavenly!
Can't wait to try this, thank you so much for your generosity! :)
Why don't you guys ask for favorite recipes instead of family recipes. There are so many recipes out there that it can get exhausting trying to find one that you trust will be a good or even great recipe without having to go through numerous trials and errors. I have some great favorite recipes that are not of my or my families making, and would have no problem sharing with other foodies. However, as others have said, I wouldn't share my family recipes either.
A favorite recipe I'll share but not a family heirloom.
Some things must remain sacred! No sharing here.
I agree with Popeye, Grofys, and Arborani. I don't want some big entity to profit from my private, prized recipes.
Nice try, though.
I'm sure your recipes are covenanted by all...they probably taste like sh*t...
Haha...There are some really cranky people on here. Why even respond...just click that little red 'x' in the top-right corner of your browser. At least I've gotten some good entertainment from it...
Your forgetting the fact that there are only so many food combinations to go around and methods of cooking. Whatever your favorite secrete recipe is some one out there is already making it. Probably hundreds of somebodies!!
My wife and I were blessed with a 'hand-me-down" cookbook as a wedding gift – a three ringed binder full of recipe index cards and pages from mothers, grandmothers, aunts and many ladies of our church. Every once in a while I dust it off and read through the recipes, and they bring me back to a time when I remember having a particular dish – a family Christmas gathering, a church pot-luck, or any of a dozen events that involved food (and honestly, didn't most of them?). Recipes like Willie Mae's banana pudding, Aunt Novella's persimmon pudding, or my grandmother's chocolate meringue pie or triple chocolate cake (I was part creator in that one – I suggested adding Toll House morsels when I was a kid, and she made it that way from then on). The food is wonderful, but the treasure is the memories associated with each and every dish.
No kidding, how stupid.
Couldn't agree more. Talk about chutzpah.
i'm not sharing a great recipe so someone else can make a profit from it either. i don't even share with friends or family.
Not even friends or family? What do you say when someone complements you and asks? No, I am a bad sharer?
I think that the people that do not like to share are selfish,I do not have in paper what my mother and grand mother was cooking but I was watching and now I cook good greek and healthy dishes and when people come to my house,they loved my cooking and I share it.The more healthier people we have on this earth the better is for every one.
Here is a heaathy one. Egg Pants,zuchini,flat green beans.
Fry a little the zouchini and egg plants,then make a sause with fresh tomatoes,add garlic,mint,parsley,onions,a little cinamon,when the sause is nice a thick add the egg plants,zouchini,and the green beans to the sause and cook them till nice and soft,salt and pepper to your taste. Do not forget to split in half the green beans the have better taste.
An other little secret. Before you fry the zouchini and egg plants slice them and put salt leave them for about 15 minutes and all the water will come out,this way the do not absorb too much of the good olive oil you will fry them with.
Good apetite.
Helen-I was really anxious to find out what egg pants were! They sounded so interesting. Oh well, we all make typos!
Thank you for sharing your dish! It sounds authentic and wonderful. Don't mind the rude comments people left. I'd love to see them spell in you language. I can't wait to try your dish!
That sounds really good. Thanks. Now I know what to make for dinner.
Just to clarify- I wasn't trying to be mean. I thought "egg pants" sounded cute.
Do you have a good recipe for hummus? I have had it before and did not like it, but I always try foods twice just in case it was that specific dish you know. Anyway I would love if you had one, thanks!
im so glad you are not my friend mos especially not my family ..i hope there is not much people in the world like you...go ahead a put your recipe in your treasure box ..and i hope you have a good recipe worth keeping :(
Never,
I'll die and take those special dishes with me before I make them public. The last time I shared a recipe I went to a pot-luck dinner and there was the same dang dish I brought. Never again.
And I certainly won't share it with someone who will make a profit from either bubbyai.
Bitter thy name is Popeye!
Lays potato chips isn't a recipe Popeye
My bag is salty and you can't eat my nuts.
Golly, little crabapple, no one was forcing you to share! Goodness sakes! Keep those potluck recipes and your hefty profits–the rest of the world can manage without 'em! We'll spread good cheer and fond family memories and you'll have your greenbean casserole to keep ya warm!
Wow! I love it when people ask for my recipes! I am more than happy to share! The one recipe I wish I had is from my husband's grandmother. She was afflicted with Alzhiemers disease before she could teach me how to make her coleslaw. I have never had better and cannot duplicate it. I miss you Grandma! She would be honored if her recipes were shared!
And we would be honored to celebrate her here! Please send it in.
- Kat, Managing Editor of Eatocracy
Kat, Marge said she DIDN'T have her Grandmother's recipe ...
Ah. Right. It's been a loooong week. We mean well. We really do.
Could it have sour cream? That was the secret ingredient that I saw in a couple of recipes that made my coleslaw go from drab to fab. I think maybe Ina Garten and Bobby Flay had it....with some mustard. Dijon or Coleman's.
How terrible that the nice folks at the potluck got to enjoy your family's recipe . . . I would be pleased, regardless of who prepared it.
It is called sharing, so really so what. Its funner to share recipes
I'm surprised no one has said this yet: Just get it off from Google and put it up instead of whinning about some tradional family reciepe...like the author is really going to know where it came from...
popeye...i really hope that your recipe is worth keeping for yourself...and you are a good cook, otherwise...so sad to read people are selfish...i hope people dont chock up when you coo :(
Have you ever really SEEN an egg plant? You have??? Well, you have been farther up a chickens butt than I have.
Apparently you don't have recipes handed down from 4 generations. A recipe that can be so precise that it specifies the kind of spoon and how many turns of the batter it takes to make it right. Be jealous, but you won't get my recipes.
Riiiiight, popeye. And I'm sure you have the original bowl 4 generations later or an exact replica of it - not just in volume, but in width and height, too - so that the extremely "precise" number of batter stirs matches great-great-granny's EXACTLY.
If you need THAT much help with a batter recipe to get it "right," not to worry, no one is going to be jealous of your cooking skills OR recipes. I do feel badly for your family and friends, though - how in the WORLD could it possibly hurt you in any way to share with them? How petty and selfish can a person get! There is something very unseemly about being unwilling to share with those close to you.
I actually pity you and others who feel the same (not talking about those who don't want to publish on a public website, just those who don't want to share even with friends/family/church, etc.). Apparently, thinking you are top dog is very important to you. Guess you realize that anyone else could follow the directions just as well as you can, and if that were found out, you wouldn't feel special or superior any longer. Pathetic.