What did your granny teach you?

Mojoworking

My nan was born in the 30's and died in the 90's but was surprisingly "modern" so she never actually taught me knitting etc she did used to make a corned beef plate pie - with packet pastry I'm sure you only had to add water. She was extremely house proud and taught me to polish - although always copious amounts of spray polish - never anything traditional. She taught me that when you peg your knickers on the line you use 2 pegs so that they look pretty. I remember her going mad once as she'd had some sort of op which meant no bending/lifting and my granddad had put the washing out and used one peg and put it on the crotch.

cheeswright

my gran taught me
how to knit
sew, embroider
crochet
use a sewing machine
basic cookery
not to hord ( by setting a bad example)
and that if your drunken husband comes at you with a poker
a red hot cast iron toasting fork is a useful weapon

amazing woman

liney

Mojoworking wrote: »

She taught me that when you peg your knickers on the line you use 2 pegs so that they look pretty. I remember her going mad once as she'd had some sort of op which meant no bending/lifting and my granddad had put the washing out and used one peg and put it on the crotch.

:rotfl:

My Nan taught me that you dry your smalls indoors, unless you are using a rotary dryer and can peg them on the inside and cover them with the larger clothes. Then again, my Nan's knickers could double as a pillow cases, so there was no way they were going to look pretty!

Sligo

My Nanny taught me how to make a Black Russian - her favourite drink! And still drinking them to the age of 94!

But she was the "naughty" Nanny and if the stories are true she was wild in her day! And I'm supposed to be like her! Still waiting for my wild phase

This_Year

Sligo wrote: »

My Nanny taught me how to make a Black Russian - her favourite drink! And still drinking them to the age of 94!

But she was the "naughty" Nanny and if the stories are true she was wild in her day! And I'm supposed to be like her! Still waiting for my wild phase

My Nanny only drank to be sociable. Didn't really like it but by god, could she be sociable! :rotfl:

pollys

My Nan

Gave me a teaspoon laden with butter and sugar to cure a cough!
Brandy and sugar to cure a tummy ache.
Taught me how to Knit.
How to make a snowball, complete with a cherry on a stick (the drink)

My Grandad

How to make toasted teacakes with a toasting fork and the electric ring!

My DH's grandma taught him how to pickle onions.

Lovely memories.

Pollys

mazza111

My gran taught me to never run out of eggs. She always said if you have eggs in the house you can make a meal. It was her favourite saying And how right she was.

Also the usual things like knitting, baking and how to make her famous coffee icing

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Cribbage and Cheese
One pot veggies, carrot, cabbage, spuds, thrown in pot on open fire
Pastry, and Viennese fingers
Mince pies
Rice pudding, on range. By Thursday it had a crust
More red Leicester
Meat and tatties pie, cooked on range next to fire
Custard, with skin
Dripping and old toast bread to feed cat
Bloody cat
Cribbage
Milk, sterilised. With cornflakes.
Porage
Mooorrre cheese
Jacks tea

And at christmas, treat everyone the same. An diary and a pen. Regardless.

Oh and cheese and cribbage.

Snowy_Owl

liney wrote: »

Cheese sauce covers a multitude of sins.

LOVE IT!! - recently found a recipe for cheese sauce / macaroni cheese in an 1970's Farmhouse kitchen recipe book (linked to some programme) hubby and I love it!



I wish she had taught me:
How to skin a rabbit.
How to prepare a phesant.

This is where my dad comes in handy - his dad and family taught him all the hunting shooting fishing malarky and his mum would prepare them.

Snowy

Snowy_Owl

Sligo wrote: »

My Nanny taught me how to make a Black Russian - her favourite drink! And still drinking them to the age of 94!

But she was the "naughty" Nanny and if the stories are true she was wild in her day! And I'm supposed to be like her! Still waiting for my wild phase

For me, that's what cousins and aunties were for! :rotfl: