Figure this one out and win a prize!

Y’all know I’m a lazy cook, right? I like to share recipes with five-or-less ingredients, because that’s the way I cook. Also, since it turns out that I’m allergic to most of the things I’ve been eating all my life (which explains a lot), I’ve spent the last decade recreating old family recipes to avoid the main allergens I’m sensitive to: dairy, soy, peanuts, gluten (wheat), and one or two others that I can’t remember. (Thank God I can still eat corn, which I LOVE.)

But anyhow, in search of old family recipes to convert to new methods and materials, I found an undecipherable recipe card written in my maternal grandmother’s handwriting. She may have been in an altered state of consciousness when she wrote it, because pharmaceuticals were varied, plentiful, and easily obtainable back in those days.

Here’s an image of the recipe card. If you can decipher it, you win a prize! If you try the recipe (as you understand it) and report back, you win an even bigger prize. Add pictures of the completed dish, you get a triple prize!

(Prize details TBD later–which means it could be a free puppy!–or more likely, an underwhelming token of appreciation that will fit into a plain white envelope. Maybe a bookmark or two or three.)

See what you can make of this….

Head on over to my blog and post your best guess (and picture) in the comments. I’ll announce the winner in a future newsletter. And good luck!

Please feel free to share! :)

6 Responses

  • It’s a lovely breakfast casserole! Cut up bread (croutons) on bottom, one pound of cooked sausage, grated cheese, the six eggs, one cup of cheese. She did not have to tell you about salt and pepper nor stirring the eggs and mild together because people used common sense back then.
    Refrigerate over night. Bake at 350.
    The added plus is your Nana’s handwriting!
    Hugs from Florida.

    • Hi Shelley,

      Thanks for your response! I couldn’t make out the word “bottom.” I was seeing “button,” and “butter.” Now it makes perfect sense.

      Please send me your mailing address privately so I can send your prize!

      🙂 Babette

  • No idea on the first part
    1 sausage – cooked, next
    cheese grated
    6 eggs – 1 cup milk
    Refridgerate over night
    350 degrees

    I would try it but Im vegan so its a no for me

    • Thank you, Celeste! I’m allergic to eggs, so I won’t be trying it either. But it does sound like the sort of cooking my grandmother did. Very Southern-home-cooking.

      I’ve got your address, so be looking for something fun from me very soon!

      🙂 Babette

  • Sounds like a quiche

    Place croutons on the bottom of a baking dish
    Cook 1 pound of sausage, then place the sausage on top of the croutons
    Mix 6 eggs and 1 cup of milk, then pour over sausage
    Grate some cheese, then add on top of egg, milk, sausage mixture
    Refrigerate overnight, so it can set
    Bake the next day 350 degrees

    • Thanks for the recipe translation! (The word “bottom” threw me early-on.)

      Please let me know your mailing address (privately–message through the forums or email through the contact form) so I can send your prize.

      You’re in luck! A neighbor just messaged me this morning about rehoming a puppy they found, so a prize puppy is a real possibility! (Or maybe just a bookmark….? Your choice.)

      🙂 Babette

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