Do you keep any recipes handed down from your Mum or Grandmas? If so, what are they?

Yes. I've recipes from my mum for pita, sarma, punjene paprike and oblatne.

by Vee

Vee I am Croatian and I have the same recipes from my mum.
I am so happy my mum taught me to cook as we came to Australia when I was 8, and so I am glad I have kept the tradition. Another special recipe is Kiflice, the yummy shortbread biscuits.

lyuba that's great! I think it's important we hold onto our culture in that sense, that way we have something to pass onto our children. I like kiflice too, but I love ormasice. Now that I still need a recipe for.

When I went to university, my mum told me her recipes for my favourite foods, which I dutifully wrote down then mostly ignored. I still have them and occasionally look them out for old time's sake.
My husband has a very treasured recipe for Christmas Cake from his grandma, that is old and tattered and going translucent from greasy fingerprints. I'm not a fan of fruit cake so haven't tried it but judging by how quickly it disappears every year, I think it must be a good recipe!

by VerityG

That Christmas cake sounds good!

I have a recipe book from my Nan that she typed up and printed out for all the grandkids. Most of them are curries, since that is what she cooks best :)

I wish that I had a few of the recipes my Great Grand Aunt made before she passed away, but I didn't really think of it when I was younger.

by Rachael Koch

We don't think of these things when we're young but it's nice that you have your Nan's recipes!

My grandpa used to cook a lot, and he has a book of recipes. He has them at the moment, but I intend to keep them when he is no longer with us. All the other recipes are not family recipes per se, but old recipe books that my family used to/still do use.

by Bryony Harrison

Make sure you get that recioe book, Bryony!

Yes!
I have one for the most amazing 'short pastry'.
We are talking melt in your mouth, and it is about 60-70 years old, recipe.

by jonaja

There's a treasure to hold onto! Do you use it often, Jona?

You know I have never made it .
I stopped a lot of baking, a few years ago...plus we don't have an oven?
I may take it up again one day, and I will make up mum's short pastry for sure :)

No I don't have any recipes that have been handed down to me. My parents and grand parents weren't that big on cooking. Additionally, I'm not that big on cooking either.

by dwatk

I have a few recipes from my mum. They are mostly from old women's weekly or "charity" recipe books. They are recipes for my favourite foods and I do use them sometimes - although I have adapted them and mostly know them off by heart now.

by lizzi

I have some written recipes for cakes and biscuits Mum used to cook and I use them. I learnt a few cooking tips from Grandma and use those. They aren't written down.

by Marie Vonow

I sure do as my parents were from europe and they cooked very differently to my Australian friends.

Some of the recipes are so nice and one in particular that I put on rEcipe Yum which I make only for special treats as it is a lot of work.
http://recipeyum.com.au/spatzlea-a-delicious-southern-german-speciality/

There are many others too numerous to mention here -one other unusual one is called Marillen Knoedel where a fresh apricot gets covered in a special dough and put in boiling water and then eaten with sugar, butter and bread crumbs -DELICIOUS

by Finy

Nothing at all. I never saw my mother with a recipe book of any kind and my gran was in England so nothing from her either.

by Rice