https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:40:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1241562 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:39:20 +0000 looch 1241562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gladly share recipes, I don't see the point in keeping them secret. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1241432 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:06:20 +0000 mrsjyw 1241432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: same about the msahed potatoes!</p> <p>MIL has a sugar cookie recipe for the softest but firm delicious cookies that came down from DH's family-- will keep that in the family for years :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1241429 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:05:07 +0000 Mrsjets 1241429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom has the best (soft, melt in your mouth) ginger snap recipe from my grandma. We make it every Christmas and people always ask for the recipe, it's the only one she won't give (or let me give) to people. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1241420 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:03:27 +0000 mrs. wagon 1241420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: you WIN!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1241401 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:59:18 +0000 abbydabbydoodlebug 1241401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a few family recipes, one of which is our sugar cookie recipe that's amazing. It's from my great-great grandmother and I've never had a sugar cookie like it. Delicious. We only make it once a year for Christmas because it's so time consuming. </p> <p>We also have a great pumpkin pie recipe from another grandmother. </p> <p>We have a bunch of other desserts but those are the family's favorite. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1239435 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:40:14 +0000 .twist. 1239435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: OMG. My mom does this too and it is so frustrating! Haha or she'll say " I don't know, I don't have a recipe, I just use x, y, z, in it!!". Not helpful mom, not helpful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1239422 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:23:45 +0000 jedeve 1239422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No real secrets. My grandpa put together a family cookbook though! It's nice to have all the family recipes in one place. </p> <p>Sometimes I ask my mom for a recipe of hers, like her caramel corn. And she will just tell me to google any old one and it never turns out! So frustrating. </p> <p>The recipes I only use from family are:</p> <p>Chili (grandpa)<br /> Zucchini bread (still never turns out like my mom's)<br /> Meatloaf (from my MIL)<br /> Cheese crackers (grandma)<br /> Mac n cheese (though it's just the fanny farmer's recipe.)</p> <p>I need to get my mom's pork tenderloin and lasagna recipe though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1239402 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:00:39 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1239402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: excuse my chicken scratch!</p> <p>Idk if it's my oven or what, but baking for that long burns the bottom of my bread. Also be careful not to mix too much or the bread doesn't rise. </p> <p>I also spray my pans with PAM. </p> [attach=1772/13/mws1x4.450x600.image.jpg] [attach=1772/13/mws1x7.450x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1239393 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:52:40 +0000 cascademom 1239393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: glad yours is tastier. DH's grandmother cooks by feel now. We watched as she made her stuffing. MIL measures it out. When we were there once, she added the wrong spice and MIL wanted to note the change. She didn't understand how her own mom cooks. My inlaws won't share any recipes with me or DH. He doesn't know how to make his favorite black eyed peas from his childhood. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1239361 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:59:08 +0000 .twist. 1239361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lovehoneybee: at least you can tinker. If I don't follow a recipe to a T, it tastes like shit. Haha</p> <p>@Arden: LOL wife win! That's awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1239046 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 01:14:56 +0000 RubyCali 1239046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: hahaha so good! Success is the best revenge. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238994 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:08:12 +0000 Arden 1238994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh don't mention secret recipes... my husbands family has recipe for a lentil loaf that he loves, and I asked MIL for it when we got married and she gave me this absurd totally different recipe that tastes nothing like hers.<br /> DH was like "Wah, you can't cook like my mommy."</p> <p>So then I invented my own and it's so much better than hers ever was, even DH agrees, so ha. I win.</p> <p>Rant over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238992 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:02:10 +0000 immabeetoo 1238992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sooo now I wish my family had a secret recipe! And I wish you all would share yours with me! Ha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238916 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:58:32 +0000 cascademom 1238916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Company potatoes (from an old cookbook), pork tenderloin marinade (more technique than anything), baked chicken wings from a family friend actually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238604 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:36:46 +0000 swedishfish 1238604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: cinnamon bread? Yum, I'll try to bake it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238590 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:27:07 +0000 StbHisMrs 1238590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My Dad makes a salmon dip that will rock your world. He's been ask to make it commercially but won't give up the recipe!! A few people have it, but he's made them sign waivors!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238252 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:30:24 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1238252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll happily share our cinnamon bread recipe. I keep burning the bread even when I follow the directions to a T so I'd love for someone else to give it a try! </p> <p>I'd like to pretend that my oven doesn't heat evenly but the truth is, I just suck at cooking.</p> <p>But man, can I make a sauce.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238249 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:28:34 +0000 lovehoneybee 1238249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would totally share with HB if I had any secret family recipes. But if we don't I don't have them, and would be horrible with them anyway because I can't stop myself from tinkering with them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238232 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:10:37 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1238232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad's Sauce Robert...he named it after himself. It goes on any kind of meat and he has variations for pork, beef and poultry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238217 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:57:27 +0000 Sapphiresun 1238217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My grandmother was a fabulous cook/baker but notorious for sharing base recipes but not the changes she makes herself, or instructions on the family recipes that are like "add some sugar. Knead till it feels right". She and my great grandmother used to make this maple fudge icing for cakes that was amazing and though we technically have the recipe but she definitely left something out because it's not even close to what she used to make. My aunts have been trying to replicate it and figure out the change for the last 20 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238209 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:47:57 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1238209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: our sauce is a family recipe brought over from Italy. It's been passed down generations and our family in Italy still used it. </p> <p>It's a tradition that no one shares our recipe. I didn't even get it until I was married! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238203 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:43:51 +0000 Boogs 1238203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: You're such a tease!</p> <p>We have a couple of dessert recipes that are a bit secret, but we've shared with others in the family/like family (bff for 20 years), or MIL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238200 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:41:19 +0000 sunny 1238200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Somebody please explain to me, why are recipes kept secret!? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238184 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:11:48 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1238184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: red! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238182 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:08:44 +0000 .twist. 1238182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: yes, that is exactly like my potatoes! They're just from an old recipe book my mom has and they are our "secret" family potatoes! Hahaha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238180 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:07:23 +0000 blackbird 1238180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a couple but for the most part, I share the love :)</p> <p>I have a poppyseed cake that is fabulous but so easy, it hurts. A meatball recipe, and a jelly salad recipe. Oh and a pork tenderloin marinade I got from a friend in college that was definitely a family recipe! I've never seen it anywhere else. </p> <p>(and, ironically, my mom calls them secret family recipes and tells me never to share, but uh, I've actually googled a few and they're just from VERY old cooking magazines, HAHA!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238173 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:00:51 +0000 .twist. 1238173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kimberlybee: wow! It must be super delicious! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238171 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:59:38 +0000 Kimberlybee 1238171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes we have a roast pork secret recipe. It's more like the seasoning and technique of making it crispy and pretty without burning it. My aunt accidentally shared it with her friend. Her friend turns around and sells it on the weekends now within our Asian community as an extra income. She then threatens my aunt and tells her to not share the recipe with others. Crazy lady!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238147 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:27:30 +0000 .twist. 1238147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: white sauce? Red sauce? Gimme more hints! Haha I'm nosey! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sharing-secret-family-recipes#post-1238143 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:25:57 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1238143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our family sauce recipe is top secret. </p> <p>So is our risotto. </p>