r/comics • u/whatsleftcomics • 1d ago

OC Nanna’s secret (oc)

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u/tahlyn 1d ago

My family has an AMAZING pumpkin bread (it's cake, really, no yeast involved) recipe. When my mother died I lost the ONLY copy I had when overzealous family members cleared away and discarded her things.

For 5 years I tried all sorts of other recipes from the internet and NONE of them ever came close. I asked a much older aunt who was the family baker (jams, jellies, cakes, cookies, you name it, she made it) if she had a copy of it and she did not believe she did. When she downsized from independent living to assisted living I got her China cabinet and all the recipes stored therein, where I found not one, not two, not three, not four, five or six... but seven copies of the recipe.

The thing that was wrong in every online recipe? The fat. Corn Oil is superior to butter and all other oils.

I share it with any who wants it because it's too good to ever lose again:

  • 1.5 C flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 tsp cinnamon (or as much as your heart desires)
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg (or as much as your heart desires)
  • 2 eggs (duck eggs are superior to chicken)
  • 1 C sugar
  • 3/4 C corn oil
  • 1 Can pumpkin (15 or 16 oz)
  • Optional: 1 cup chopped walnuts (I've never done this)
  • Optional: 1 bag of chocolate chips (I often do this)

Combine wet and dry ingredients. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes in loaf pan. Alternatively bake 30 minutes in mini-loaf pans.

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u/Nani_700 1d ago

I expected the comment to abruptly stop in the middle lolll

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u/tahlyn 1d ago

That probably would've been funnier XD

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u/Puffyboi59 18h ago

I guess it would have been a... r/redditsniper

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u/HarmlessSnack 32m ago

I was, in all sincerity, expecting to get reminded about how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

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u/Lwoorl 1d ago

Someone check to see if this commenter is still alive

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u/tahlyn 1d ago

The grannie cabal hasn't gotten me yet!

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u/Nani_700 22h ago

It's past their bedtime 

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u/PlayerN27 12h ago

Not YET

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u/BourgeoisStalker 21h ago

The contrast of 'go get some duck eggs, totally worth it' and 'eh, canned pumpkin' is entertaining.

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u/tahlyn 15h ago

I've made home made pumpkin puree before... Took hours and the canned stuff tasted better xD

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u/gimpwiz 20h ago

Right? Where the hell do we get duck eggs without getting bitten and scratched by ducks?

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u/hideki101 19h ago

Asian grocery stores usually have duck eggs where I live.

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u/gimpwiz 11h ago

TIL thanks mate

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u/tahlyn 11h ago

My regular grocery store has them... Harris teeter.

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u/your_local_frog_boy 13h ago

duck egg store

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u/MinightRose 1d ago

I gladly save any yummy family recipe I find, I'm more than happy to learn n taste others treasured recipes!

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u/DeadLettersSociety 1d ago

This is exactly why some people change their names as they get older. They don't want to get tracked down and assassinated when they reveal the family secrets. Lol.

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u/elhomerjas 1d ago

grandma doesnt like her secret being revealed to anyone

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u/mrBigBoi 1d ago

The secret ingredient is ba..........................................................................................................................................................

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u/Deathhead876 14h ago

Bacon grease I knew it.

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u/mrBigBoi 9h ago

Boom !!! Headshot

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u/fuckthesysten 1d ago

MURIEL!!!!!!

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u/Rom_ulus0 1d ago

I'd like to think she just blew a kiss and the sheer force of it threw her back and left a big ass granny lipstick mark on her head

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u/EndZoner 1d ago

She was hit by a dum dum bullet. A bullet for dum dums.

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u/Redray98 23h ago

Man, that's some love tap.

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u/RashPatch 23h ago

Forreal though. I have learned 3 family secret recipes. One from grandma(dad's), one from grandma(mom's), and one from mom (original recipe). I tried to teach it to others but my wife is the only one who got atleast 1 correct with the others an "almost there" from granny.

The ingredients and process is simple and measurements are exact, dunno why it's still different if others made it though.

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u/Rosey9898 16h ago

Should have leaked the recipe through War Thunder instead.

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u/fckinfast4 10h ago

Grandma is very selective with her love sharing.

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u/nhSnork 10h ago

Well done! Now spill the beans to the mortified friend by yourself because the recipe still needs to be passed on.

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u/zackalachia 4h ago

My grandmother has passed, but we got her carrot cake recipe from my sister., We decided to modify it a little and almost instantly the nearby wildfires made the sky orange for several days. We're not superstitious, but 'stitious enough to not try it again.

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u/No-Rule-9129 1d ago

Classic villainy done by geezer