The first thing I learned how to bake was cake made from boxed pre-mixed powder. I was about 4.
I’m decently older now in days, and I am able to make my own mixes from scratch, but the memories of making something with my family always hold true in my heart when I’m baking or doing anything in the kitchen.
Considering everything started at the same age regardless; because of it i am able to say im more than competent in Cooking/ Baking basically anything. By the time I was in high school I was making extremely complex sauces, and recipes With some decently expensive goodies. It’s always nice to want to create something delicious, yet not only for ones self, but most importantly the people one cares For. Family, love ones, etc.
Back in the day they may have been very simple meals/ recipes, but they began a foundation at a very early age, and I am always grateful for that.
Well I hope that answers your question to the best of my ability. In addition I hope that you yourself have a dish from “back when”, and whether it be baked or cooked that brings back happy memories for you.
My mom was an excellent baker. Her staple was baking bread.
I tried it years ago and it wasn't anywhere near what she could do so I stopped.
She had a big bowl in which she'd always place the dough over the refrigerator covered with a stiff damp cloth. I also have the cloth. She bought that bowl with stamps just a few months before I was born.
One day, when I'm brave enough, I'll try to make bread again.
Cakes, tarts, crepes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, cookies, brownies, pies, cobblers , DUMPLINGS!!!, and fudge.
She'll always be the standard by which I judge my ability.
Thanks, Poppy. This brought back wonderful memories.
Nope I can't eat any of them anymore. But I suppose I could try adjust the recipes so I could
Shortbread cookies, peanut butter cookies, quiche, pancakes, spaghetti, meatloaf
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I think the first things I ever made were pancakes and brownies, and, yes, I still make those. I also made "Christmas-time" sugar cookies, and I haven't made those in decades, but I still have the recipe so I could. Other early things were other simple breakfast stuff: fried and scrambled eggs, hash browns, etc. This was all at age 8 or 9 - I eventually moved on to dinner meals at 10 or 11 and also making cakes and cookies around then. By 13 I was making more involved meals - pan or oven-fried chicken, beef or pork roasts, various Mexican dinners (burritos, tacos, enchiladas), orange chicken & fried rice, and so on.
I don't bake often these days, but I definitely still make breakfasts and dinner meals fairly often, and I've added a lot of BBQ grilled food to the rotation as well.
My parents never taught me how to cook! They weren't that good at cooking anyway. We ate mostly fast food and microwave meals. I'm studying cooking now including the big guns like Escoffier. But my parents didn't teach me squat. I just grilled meat 90% of the time throughout university until I got so sick of grilling stuff that I graduated to a cast iron pan and turned the stove on at my place for the first time to make scrambled eggs.
These Peanut Butter blossoms, which have two ingredients, about all I can handle:
1) refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough
2) Hershey's Kisses
Not really, I don't have such a sweet tooth any more. Or any teeth! (Joking.)
My mum taught me (and her school classes) to make butter, too. I haven't done that for a very long time. Or bottle fed a lamb. Damn it, you're making me nostalgic! I'll go and bake some bread...
In spite of a rather unhappy youth, as a child I learned a very few usefull things: to peel and cook patatoes. Same with pancakes, from preparing the dough to baking them pancakes. I still do that at least once a year.
The first thing I baked was Rock Cakes in Food Tech. But yeah, I don't bake that. I'm not a big baker. I do most of my cooking on the hob or BBQ
I was taught by a friend mum how to bake and cook, rice pudding, pancakes, various crumbles.
at home things like rolling pins were PTSD inducing things used to give random beatings.
I can't tell you about my childhood baking experiences because you'll think I'm making it up. Regardless of that, no I don't bake the things I used to as a child.
Big up for King Arthur flour in the pic... first thing I learned to bake was tea ring and I still do every Christmas
Chocolate chip cookies? Hell yeah. Though I eat most of the dough before they have a chance to become cookies.
No I don't. I can't remember ever bake at home just in school.
I definitely still make pancakes😮💨
No. Because if I was still making mud pies in the sandbox I would think my life had went horribly wrong somewhere.
u I can make a sandwich
I don't, if possible, I prefer not to give in to any cravings, so I fill myself with water
I never leaned how to cook anything as a kid.
Barely learned to cook, just eggs and thats it.
Brown beans is what we had everyday
