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Recipes and death

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My paw-paw passed away almost a year ago. With him, he took his recipe for THE BEST chicken pot pie I have ever eaten. Let me tell you, this pot pie had the typical chicken filling but the chicken was shredded just perfectly with lttle cubbed carrots and peas mixed in the filling. Then he topped the filling with a crisp, crust made of a of shortening and butter that melted in your mouth. I tried to get my mom to locate the recipe in his house but it was a no go. He usually cooked thinkg from memory-he was a chef by trade.

Anyone have a recipe remotley like this? I don't want any healthy crap.
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  • anna.oskaranna.oskar member
    Eighth Anniversary 10000 Comments 5 Love Its Combo Breaker
    edited March 2012
    Paula Deen's recipe is fabulous and probably will be pretty close.  I've made it a couple times (with my own puff pastry instead of the packaged) and it reminded me of ones I use to eat when I was little. (Made by little old ladies.

    http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/lady-and-sons-chicken-pot-pie-recipe/index.html
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  • ootmother2ootmother2 member
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    well, if you can skip the peas, I'll give you a hint.(hate peas)


    Buy phylo dough and use about 4 layers for the top, less, maybe two for the bottom.

    It's cheatng, I know.  but it works!
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  • ricksangricksang member
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    I will try both of these and I know Edie,it sucks when you can't have the foods you loved anymore and can replicate them.

    TY ladiies!
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  • BecW2beBecW2be
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    Aw, that's really sad, Ricks. :( I hope you find something close!
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  • ricksangricksang member
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    TY Bec <3
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  • ccarrion77ccarrion77
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    edited March 2012
    This is one of my favorites! and my FI's too, enjoy....

    Chicken Pot Pie     (prep 45min; bake 25min)
    3 cups cut-up cooked chicken
    1/3 cup chopped yellow onion
    10 oz frozen peas and carrots
    1-3/4 cups chicken broth
    1 stick butter
    1/3 cup all-purpose flour
    2/3 cup milk
    1/2 tsp salt
    Pinch pepper
    Pastry for 9-inch 2 crust pie

    1) Make pastry (see two crust pie recipe  below)
    2) Melt butter over med heat in large sauce pan
    3) Stir in flour, onion, salt, pepper stirring constantly until bubbly
    4) Stir in broth and milk, stirring constantly heat to boil, boil for 1 min
    5) Stir in chicken, peas and carrots
    6) Heat oven to 425F, remove mix from heat
    7) Pour in chicken mix
    8) Heavily cover with pastry strips and flute
    9) Bake 20-30 min



    Two-Crust Pie (9-inch) (prep 20min; fridge 30min)
    2 cups all-purpose flour
    1 tsp salt
    2/3 cups + 2 tsp shortening
    4-6 TBS cold water

    1) Mix flour and salt in mixer bowl
    2) Cut in shortening using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives until particles are size of small peas
    3) Sprinkle with cold water, 1 TBS at a time, tossing with fork or blender until all flour is moistened and pastry almost leaves side of bowl
    4) Gather pastry into a ball on a lightly floured rolling sheet
    5) Divide into 2/3 and 1/3 sections - refrigerate 20-30 min to make flakey
    6) Roll 2/3 pastry into 13 in square
    7) Ease into ungreased 9'' pie pan
    8) Use remaining 1/3 for top - cover completely or it will leak out
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  • AllAboutTheBenjaminAllAboutTheBenjamin member
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    Recipes are something in my family that get passed down, on my dad's side anyway.  There are some pretty famous recipes we make sure we make around the holidays, including my great great aunt's mustard sauce to eat with the ham on Easter.  This past Thanksgiving and Christmas, my uncle made my great-grandma's figgy pudding.  IT IS TO DIE FOR.

    We also have my great-grandma's recipe for butterscotch pie.  I haven't made it yet, but there is such a cool story that goes with that recipe.  My grandpa's family was piss poor.  In 1934, President Roosevelt made a trip to North Dakota to view the horrible drought it was having.  My grandpa and his family wanted to go but they didn't have enough money to get to town.  Turns out on the morning of the presidential visit, my great-grandma recieved a check in the mail for ten dollars.  The check was the grand prize in a recipe contest she'd entered, and she'd won with her recipe for butterscotch pie.  So my great-grandparents, grandpa and great uncle had enough money to go to town and they got to see the president!
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  • MrsMack10612MrsMack10612 member
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    I can check my circa 1962 Better Homes and Gardens cookbook for a recipe - there is nothing healthy about the recipes in there.

     

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  • DanniLynn88DanniLynn88 member
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    lol. I have to laugh. My great grandmother who I never met made these cookies. Italian cookies. Always very dry. My mom always made them, dry. I added orange juice, like a cup of it per batch bc the recipe says just a teaspoon. My dad says thats how she made them taste. Go figure. 
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