Hi, I am Connie from Whitener Bargains.com. When I was a young girl, I used to look forward to visiting my grandma’s house, because I loved spending time with her in the kitchen. I can remember her pulling out the big percolator coffee pot and me getting to help fill up the metal basket with the coffee and her filling the glass carafe with water. She would place it on the back burner on the stove then while the coffee was perking, she would reach up and get this solid wooden bowl down out of the cabinet. It was a bowl that her dad made for her mom when they were first married living in Germany. Then Grandma would get the ingredients for biscuits out; she never used measuring utensils; it was always a handful of this, 2 hands full of that, 1 pinch of this or 2 finger pinches of that. She always made perfect biscuits.

While the biscuits were baking in the oven, we would get a cup of coffee and go sit out on the back porch and drink our coffee and enjoy the sunrise and smell the roses from her bushes before anyone else got up. It was our special time together. You know what when Grandma got older, she sent me her special cookbook and of course her recipes all of them were a pinch of this and a dash of that. I had to write to Grandma and ask for an interpretation of her measurements. We had snail mail back then, none of this email or texting, had not even heard of cell phones back then either. I would check the mailbox every day anxiously to see what she would send.

Finally, I got her letter and the conversion from pinch to half tsp and so on. I was in my later teens at that time and helped do the cooking in our house. My mom’s idea of biscuit making was banging a tube on the side of the counter. I made the biscuits around our house after I was in 9th grade. Dad got tired of moms. My biscuits were never quite as good as Grandma’s though. Then time moved forward, and Grandma had heard I was getting married and guess what came in the mail for me one day. There was a medium sized box delivered from my grandma, inside much to my surprise bubble wrapped and the letter inside was the solid wooden bowl that my great grandpa made for his bride with his own two hands that they brought with them from Germany and the women have used to make their biscuits in. The letter told me to enjoy cooking and baking for my family as much as she did and to use this bowl for my biscuits. It helps when you add a lot of love to the dough.

So now I know Grandma’s secret recipe was adding love to her cooking. You want to know if I still have that bowl, you bet I do and I use it when I make my biscuits. When one of my Granddaughters gets married, I imagine I will pass this legacy on to them. So come on over and see whitenerbargains.com there might be something you might like.