April 2023 SG Recipe Swap: Ethnic - Polenta
By MariJ
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A recipe card from my Mom's box with her handwriting. I couldn't really add much because of the goose on the card, so I told the family Polenta story. My Mom used to laugh that Polenta became almost a delicacy because it was originally a peasant meal which was very cheap.
Journaling reads:
(By "turn of the century" I mean early 1900's. 😊
"Polenta was made at the turn of the century by Italian immigrants as an inexpensive meal. Because it did not contain meat, my Grandma would not serve it to Grandpa for dinner since he worked hard all day in construction. But on snowy days Grandpa would be home from work and since polenta gets very stiff as it thickens she would Polenta was made at the turn of the century by Italian immigrants as an inexpensive meal. Because it did not contain meat, my Grandma would not serve it to Grandpa for dinner since he worked hard all day in construction. But on snowy days Grandpa would be home from work and since polenta gets very stiff as it thickens she would make it so Grandpa could stir it for her. So in my family Polenta came to be thought of as a Wintery meal and on snowy days my Mom would make it, often telling the story of her childhood and her Dad stirring the pot for her Mom. And almost every time she made it a call would come from her sister asking, “Are you making Polenta?”. As she was too!"
For this recipe card I used:
MPE Global Gourmet: Italian
and my Mom's recipe card
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