My Mother's Cookbooks

Landscape, Culture and History of the Chignecto Isthmus – Field notes from My Mother’s Cookbooks.

The first harvest of new potatoes, baby carrots, new onions, tender peas and beans…always makes me think of my Grandmother’s (and Mother’s) Depression Stew1.

A quick drive thru rural areas of Canada’s Maritime provinces reveals countless abandoned homesteads.

When convenience didn’t involve a corner store and bread came from the oven, not a bag.

There are certain recipes in the My Mother’s Cookbook recipes which can be altered to create what Mum called “Best” versions, made with ‘rich’ ingredients, margarine replaced with butter, milk with cream, increased sugar and fat.

Frying pan cookies and canned peas?

For Mum, Christmas Holiday baking began in October.

There were many baked treats on Mum’s Christmas preparation list, but only one item warrants two versions…Doughnuts.

My first Christmas stockings were Dad’s socks repurposed for the night.

There are a number of recipes in My Mother’s Cookbooks which are traditionally associated with mining and mining communities…Welsh cakes, Cornish pasties, Welsh pasties, hand pies, etc.

This blog is the first in a series which features early Scottish settlers to the region and the McDougald, MacEachern; McKinnon and McGraw families among others… The tradition of enjoying a Saturday night supper of homemade baked beans is one familiar to…