From the Food52 Podcast Network and Heritage Radio Network, My Family Recipe shares cherished heirloom recipes, and the stories behind them, from voices across the world of food. Explore experiences of loss and remembering accompanied by homemade baked ziti, to chronicles of comfort and celebration paired with the perfect chocolate cake. Enjoy interviews with writers and chefs, parents and children about what is passed down along with the foods we know and love.
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From the Food52 Podcast Network and Heritage Radio Network, My Family Recipe shares cherished heirloom recipes, and the stories behind them, from voices across the world of food. Explore experiences of loss and remembering accompanied by homemade baked ziti, to chronicles of comfort and celebration paired with the perfect chocolate cake. Enjoy interviews with writers and chefs, parents and children about what is passed down along with the foods we know and love.
Time-Traveling Butterscotch Pie with Jennifer Justus
My Family Recipe
36 minutes 34 seconds
3 years ago
Time-Traveling Butterscotch Pie with Jennifer Justus
The Little Blue Cookbook was a nearly lost family heirloom that Jennifer Justus discovered a few years ago. Decades prior to that, the cookbook’s butterscotch pecan pie recipe provided great comfort to her grandmother, who made the dish frequently when she and her husband were relocated by his Coast Guard duties during World War II. Inheriting this piece of history led Jennifer to wonder about her grandmother’s inner life and the trials and tribulations she never shared with her granddaughter. This episode explores inheritance, midlife crises, time travel, and of course, pie. Rebekah Turshen, the pastry chef behind Nashville’s City House and a friend of Jennifer’s joins the conversation to talk about adapting vintage recipes and how she helped modernize this dessert.
If you’re hungry for more of this story, you can read the original essay “The Butterscotch Pie Recipe Grandma Carried With Her Through the War,” published by Food52. Plus find Rebekah’s Turshen’s baking tips and recipe adaptation here.
My Family Recipe
From the Food52 Podcast Network and Heritage Radio Network, My Family Recipe shares cherished heirloom recipes, and the stories behind them, from voices across the world of food. Explore experiences of loss and remembering accompanied by homemade baked ziti, to chronicles of comfort and celebration paired with the perfect chocolate cake. Enjoy interviews with writers and chefs, parents and children about what is passed down along with the foods we know and love.
