Granny had a Beverly Hills cookbook

RobertN · Nov 28, 2018

Wow, did not know this till recently... Granny from the Beverly Hillbillys had a cookbook!

https://www.amazon.com/Grannys-Beve...eywords=granny's+beverly+hillbillies+cookbook

Bet there's some good possum recipes in there

thepumpguysc · Nov 29, 2018

Speaking of which.. I found my GrandMothers C. Book.. It has a section for making TOAST.. it starts by making the bread.. no kidding.
& every recipe serves 14.!!! They had a lot of kids back then..
Isnt it strange that "back then" people had 8-10-13 children & managed to "get by"?? & today folks have 1 kid that's a menace to society & have 2 jobs.. & cry poor mouth..

Thomas · Nov 29, 2018

That's home cooking right there.

txdon · Nov 29, 2018

luckily they do offer optional meat in the recipes. You can substitute ground beef for possum and chicken wings for buzzard wings.

2LaneCruzer · Nov 29, 2018

txdon said:
luckily they do offer optional meat in the recipes. You can substitute ground beef for possum and chicken wings for buzzard wings.

Possum is pretty easy to come by; just cruise one of our well traveled streets on a Friday night, and there are usually a lot of them at the side of the road, along with raccoons and the occasional deer. Buzzard wings are harder to come by...and from the testimonials from those that have killed buzzards, it's a good thing that chicken wings can be substituted.

MH8675309 · Nov 29, 2018

Granny used to say that cougar meat was the best thing to raise boys on. Ground hog is not too bad but you have to run the meat through a grinder - this is how ground chuck is made

RobertN · Nov 29, 2018

I have some of my my Mom's, and both my Grandmothers cookbook collections. It's interesting some of the old recipes, game recipes, kitchen doodads etc. Some are old enough that they talk about how to check wood stove oven temps with your hand, and do not use degrees.

One that stumped me temporarily was when I wanted to try a recipe that called for Oleo. Had to look it up to find it was an early name for margarine.

One that I like was by Southern Cooking by "Mrs S.R. Dull".

I also have a 1962 cookbook from the Roseville Ca Carpenters Union Auxiliary my Grandmother was in. She has 6 recipes in it.

thepumpguysc said:
Speaking of which.. I found my GrandMothers C. Book.. It has a section for making TOAST.. it starts by making the bread.. no kidding.
& every recipe serves 14.!!! They had a lot of kids back then..
Isnt it strange that "back then" people had 8-10-13 children & managed to "get by"?? & today folks have 1 kid that's a menace to society & have 2 jobs.. & cry poor mouth..

2LaneCruzer · Nov 29, 2018

RobertN said:
I have some of my my Mom's, and both my Grandmothers cookbook collections. It's interesting some of the old recipes, game recipes, kitchen doodads etc. Some are old enough that they talk about how to check wood stove oven temps with your hand, and do not use degrees.

One that stumped me temporarily was when I wanted to try a recipe that called for Oleo. Had to look it up to find it was an early name for margarine.

One that I like was by Southern Cooking by "Mrs S.R. Dull".

I also have a 1962 cookbook from the Roseville Ca Carpenters Union Auxiliary my Grandmother was in. She has 6 recipes in it.

You are a youngster. I remember when you bought "oleo margarine" in a one pound plastic bag; it was white like Crisco. It had a capsule of yellow color that you broke, and kneaded the bag until it was yellow. It was against the law to sell it any other way at the time; the dairy industry didn't want the competition.

/pine · Nov 29, 2018

The original Hooters restaurant is located at the western end of a causeway across the north end of Tampa Bay...before they hit the big time there was a running joke about them collecting seagull wings off the causeway...

Bird · Nov 30, 2018

2LaneCruzer said:
You are a youngster. I remember when you bought "oleo margarine" in a one pound plastic bag; it was white like Crisco. It had a capsule of yellow color that you broke, and kneaded the bag until it was yellow. It was against the law to sell it any other way at the time; the dairy industry didn't want the competition.

:laughing:Yep, we had a milk cow and made our own butter at the time, but my grandmother started buying that "oleo margarine" and I thought it was fun to knead that bag and watch the color change.

om21braz · Nov 30, 2018

2LaneCruzer said:
Possum is pretty easy to come by; just cruise one of our well traveled streets on a Friday night, and there are usually a lot of them at the side of the road, along with raccoons and the occasional deer. Buzzard wings are harder to come by...and from the testimonials from those that have killed buzzards, it's a good thing that chicken wings can be substituted.

Possum I have had. Buzzard wings I know nothing about. My great-grandfather used to catch them and keep them in a pen & feed them corn for a couple weeks - to clean them out before serving. Usually baked and surrounded by sweet potatoes. It was not terrible is about all I remember about them.

2LaneCruzer · Nov 30, 2018

om21braz said:
Possum I have had. Buzzard wings I know nothing about. My great-grandfather used to catch them and keep them in a pen & feed them corn for a couple weeks - to clean them out before serving. Usually baked and surrounded by sweet potatoes. It was not terrible is about all I remember about them.

Are you serious? I never even imagined anyone would eat a buzzard...but what do I know?

Bird · Nov 30, 2018

I've probably posted this before, but possum is one of the few critters I've never eaten. My mother said when they hadn't been married long, dad brought in a possum for her to cook. He had skinned and gutted it, but the mistake he made was skinning it out right over the head and then he had not cut the hear off, or everything probably would have been fine. Mother said that head looked like it was just grinning at her and she refused to touch it, made dad through it away. I always heard that possum was good eating; just a mite greasy.

om21braz · Nov 30, 2018

2LaneCruzer said:
Are you serious? I never even imagined anyone would eat a buzzard...but what do I know?

Possum, not buzzard. My orientation of data must have confused you - maybe me too after reading over it. Only the Darlings would try that along with hoot owl pie LOL

I am going to have to get to some of your recent recipe posts - they sound pretty tasty.

/pine · Nov 30, 2018

...Possum, not buzzard...

No offense to anyone (possum saved many people from going hungry at times) I'd probably eat possum over dog if it came down to it...BUT...

other than feathers and one being able to fly...is there that much difference?

mjarrels · Dec 1, 2018

Yesterday I watched old password shows and granny was pitching her new cookbook on the show... $3.75 a copy.

mark

2LaneCruzer · Dec 1, 2018

/pine said:
No offense to anyone (possum saved many people from going hungry at times) I'd probably eat possum over dog if it came down to it...BUT...

other than feathers and one being able to fly...is there that much difference?

I have eaten possum when I was in grade school. At that time we lived in a small town in Eastern Oklahoma. Mom and I were over at our neighbors and they offered mom a bite of their "roast". I took a couple bites too; it was swimming in grease an it looked like pulled pork. Don't remember anything outstanding except it passed for pork and was greasy. Once was enough.

2LaneCruzer · Dec 1, 2018

om21braz said:
Possum, not buzzard. My orientation of data must have confused you - maybe me too after reading over it. Only the Darlings would try that along with hoot owl pie LOL

I am going to have to get to some of your recent recipe posts - they sound pretty tasty.

Thank you. I only post my tried and tested recipes, and I have several more. FWIW, on the other tractor site, there is a cook book with recipes from the members. I have several recipes in there.