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Of the happiness to cook with her grandchildren Among the relations that weave themselves between grandparents and the grandchildren, one often disregards to mention a tasty sharing experience: the culinary tie.

Yet, to cook Sunday with Granny, to learn herreturns, her knacks and her tricks constitutes an essential part of the domestic heritage. Learn to renew with the traditions.

The ties between grandparents and grandchildren are often privileged, based on the exchange, conviviality, the sweetness and the pleasure. Between them the complicity is often the good means to transmit her values. And in these moments that one shares with his grandparents, the food holds an essential place: to be going to make the market, to pick the vegetables of the garden, to peel them, to shell the green peas, to make the dough to crepes, the pies or jams,. These instants that are as many magic memories for the children.

The domestic ties

And when the children grow, these moments turn into transmission of the "culinary" knowledge. This one is essential to the hour or the generations have of as much less the time to cook and turn more and more toward prepared dishes or quickly facts. These dishes, that are sometimes returns transmitted since generations and whose secret is kept jealously, are really part of the domestic identity. These returns that one took the habit to savor in family are an integral part of the ties. This heritage must be transmitted to the different members to be preserved. Because he is not nowhere registered and risk to be lost. Who didn't taste the cookies a friend's almonds and did tempt without success to get the secret recipe descended of his grandmother's furnaces of it? It is sufficient to speak of the domestic returns to see to ignite of the stars in the eyes of number of children.

The inescapable

Every family has her returns of course, and his small favorite dishes. But some exists all the same "inescapable" for moments to share between small and big. These are for example jams, a gluttonous moment that the children adore to make with grandparents. Then the desserts are a sure value, the pies notably (rhubarb, apricots.) but also the inescapable clafoutis, or the charlotte. Let's not forget the crepes for which one finds as many tasty returns as of grandmothers.

For the dishes, the returns are often those bound to the domestic origins, but adapted "house." At the hour of the preparations keys in hand, it will as certainly be necessary to turn toward Granny to get THE recipe of the sauce béchamel or sauce to the white butter that will come with your fish. To note, several books tried to unite these traditional and domestic returns besides (The kitchen of grandmothers, Aunt Marie, the real traditional kitchen, The good kitchen of Saint-Angel Mom.).

To come back to the traditions and the origins

This culinary knowledge goes of course beyond the returns. It is also about the "knacks" and advice that are going to permit to personalize the dishes, to succeed the dishes. Without forgetting the transmission of this popular wisdom that doesn't learn itself at the school: to choose the fruits and vegetables, to compose the aromatic bouquets, etc. And then our world is made of diversity, our grandparents are sometimes there descended of country different from the our and the culinary traditions are often rich and varied. To learn to recover his roots in the kitchen is also a means to create this strong tie with his grandparents. Without forgetting the love to cook and to eat lunch in family, that no book either no mission will be able to transmit as the fact a grandfather or a grandmother.

2009-02-27