What do you mean you can’t read that! This is the recipe my mother wrote into my recipe book years ago, before she died. Well, obviously Before she died, I mean, if she had written it After she had died this would be a very different story!! Anyway, this was before cell phones and computers in homes and milk in cartons and granola bars in crinkly packages.
She devised this recipe to encourage us kids to eat raw foods. Hence the cornflakes (very tricky cover). And I am willing to bet that she never made it the same way twice. This is a stand out favourite for my kids. And you can stuff it full of good dried food!
Mum obviously used the first pen that came to hand. Faded green (sigh) So I shall interpret. She always wrote important stuff in capitals. So I shall too. Please excuse me if it sounds like I am shouting the recipe at you.
MUMMA MUNCH
- CORNFLAKES 3 cups
- ROLLED OATS 1 cup
- SULTANAS handful
- COCONUT 1/2 cup
- WHEATGERM dsp spoon
- BRAN 1/2 cup
- KIBBLED WHEAT dsp spoon
- SUNFLOWER SEEDS 1/2 cup
- SESAME SEEDS 1/4 cup
- PEANUTS?
(In a pot)
BOIL HARD TOGETHER FOR 4 – 5 MINUTES
- BUTTER 1/2 LB
- SUGAR 1/2 cup
- HONEY dsp spoon
Mix all the dry ingredients in a big bowl, I took out the sesame seeds and added walnut and flax seeds. Then boil the butter and sugar mixture until it begins to pull away from the sides. Be careful or you really will have toffee. We boiled and stirred for 4 minutes. The Matriarch made the mistake of stepping through the door at this very moment and very kindly took over the stirring as it needs to be continuously stirred, and I still had the floor covered in grocery bags.
Then quickly pour the hot mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well. Work fast as it is setting. While it is still hot pour into a pie dish (Mum used to make this in a roasting dish, as she did with most things, after all there were quite a few of us) and pat firmly into place, keep patting and pushing firmly as it hardens, flattening with a spoon and then pop into the fridge.
Cut into small slices when co;d. This lives in the fridge until it is all gone. Which will be very soon!
Now the rule is: (this is not a silly rule!) When the children are doing the cutting and dividing – one cuts and the others choose. So the cutter makes sure that all portions are exactly the same. Getting to have the last slice does that to a person!!
A shot of The Farmy last night as we walked away from the sunset. This weather is a gift. Lovely walks. We are getting so far ahead on our winter jobs. Stalker’s Garden has new raised beds. The calves have a new fence (they are not impressed). A new guttering spout has been installed for another rainwater barrel (every garden needs one). There has been Thinking done about the pig sty, maintenance on the barn (doors that open and shut, with new Daisy safe latches)and Our John has even begun to sow a few seeds for the vege garden. I know, I know, far too early, but there is no stopping the man, he does this every year!
Good morning!
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
96 responses to “The Original Mumma Munch Recipe”
I have a couple notebooks Mom used, I think, to make her cookbooks. Unfortunately, they are pretty much indecipherable. I’m bound and determined to figure them out. Ask Your John to keep an eye out for the Bartolini Stone when he’s plowing the fields. It could offer me the key to deciphering her coded recipes. This Mumma Munch does sound delicious, Celi, and you’ve captured a great photo of your farm. I defy any of your readers to look at it and not smile. Very nicely doe!
Oh the dreaded Mama shorthand, my grandmothers notebooks are like that. She would just write a letter. Pound of R! grnd. R!? What is the R?..grnd?.. ground? I know what you mean. c
I love your mum’s recipe page on top of what looks like your garden plan…working that in, eh? I laughed out loud at ‘please excuse me if it sounds like I’m shouting the recipe,’ and just love that she wrote important stuff in caps…so charming. And the recipe sounds great, too, and one to try! Beautiful sunset farmy.
Yes, well it was sat on top and looked cute. The garden page is still active, when it is done I shall show you!! I love the planning stage! c
old recipes are the best. my mother died when i was a little girl and the only thing i have of hers are her recipes!
So sad that your mum died when you were little but goodness how fantastic to have her recipes! .. c
This, I would like to ‘like’ twice. It looks incredibly delicious and my tummy is rumbling appreciatively. I shall make some tomorrow!
Oh brilliant. Don’t forget to work fast in the closing stages.. Mine is almost all gone and I only made it yesterday!! c
Unlike me, you seem to come by your cooking talents honestly 😉 My mom loved cans – anything that came out of them was great with her – including vegetables, which I grew up hating and later discovered as manna from heaven in the garden!
I’ve also shared your blog in my latest post – I can’t say it often enough: lovelovelove coming here!
Thank you so much for sharing me bela. i love a good share! I look forward to seeing what you do in your garden! c
I have photocopies of some of my Granny’s recipes, I cherish them dearly 🙂 One of my shorter-term projects is to gather up my family history with family recipes and make a book, that way our grandchildren will have this to hold on to. The hardest part is getting everyone (aunts, cousins) to write down their creations to be preserved.
maybe you will have to take your notebook and work with them when they make it. I found it so hard to write recipes when I started. I longed for someone to watch me cook and just write it down!! The book is a great idea, i would almost say an essential idea. A blog is one thing but I also need to make sure that i preserve the written words too!
Liz and I both concur that your Mom’s crunch looks delish! And seeing the original recipe makes me think back to looking through my grandparents recipe box.
Oh yeah, don’t let your Grams recipes get cold! c
That does look appealing! Your mum was very clever, Celi! 🙂
She was clever and VERY original! c
This sounds (and looks) so tasty! Forgive my ignorance, but what is a “dsp”?
NZ short hand for dessert spoon and a good question Ted!
c
I love things like this – though I admit I had to look up Kibbled wheat and Sultanas! (I’d heard of them before…but low and behold: a lowly raisin!…not what I expected they’d be!) I definitely want to try this! Oh, and just to let you know – I have been getting Katie in the kitchen more as per your instructions! She is loving it!
Good for katie, tell her she will love making this one it is SO EASY! c
The kibbled wheat is new to me – knew what sultanas were. Love this and will attempt it. I must say, I travelled to NZ a few years ago, and fell in love with the cuisine. Beautiful, tasty, fresh, healthy – can’t say enough about it. If this recipe came from NZ, it is one to keep. Thanks for sharing.
PS – love the picture of your farm in silhouette. Gorgeous!
Thank you Renee. For once a shot did what i had expected of it!! c
Oh yes this one came from the NZ beach where I grew up! My Mother bless her was one of the original health food fanatics! c
Like! Also like the green capital letters. 🙂
I know thanks mel!! c
Oh that does look good. But “dsp” means “digital signal processing” to me, as that is my trade. I assume it must mean something else when coupled with spoon.
And I see that you have already answered that question (dessert spoon). Unfortunately, the answer was insufficient to convey understanding to this practitioner of digital signal processing. How big is a dessert spoon? Or perhaps I should experiment!
Hmm. about two heaped real teaspoons! maybe.. tho with this recipe the actual amounts don’t matter much as long as you get the total in the end! c
What a great sounding recipe! Can’t wait to try it.
Oh I hope you do Yummy! c
Sound advice re cutting. It would have given my mother (5 children) doses of peace! 😀
I certainly sorted out my five!! c