My Biggest Family Secret
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Grandad really laughed in the face of everyone that says that baking is a science and you must measure every ingredient
hehe
baker by trade here, we're lying, we eyeball everything and fuck around with whatever we want. Once you have a basic understanding of the science all you need is informed estimates.
Those who don't bake regularly should measure. So those that do lie and say we measure so other ppls baked goods come out okay lol
Love all the questions you posed that your grandad simply didn’t acknowledge 😂💕
a little hard of hearing or more responsive to italian, I think. but wholesome, nonetheless (ฅ´ω`ฅ)
What a sweet and wholesome video! People over 90 are so funny, so many of them are kind of done with speaking in full sentences.
Thank you PJ for sharing this with us! This time of year is so hard since there are significant grandparent dates this time of year for my family after they have passed. Glad you could enjoy this baking time with your grandpa!
I love that your grandad either ignores or responds with hehe to your questions. Also I only have one grandparent left and i live so far away from her but i gained about 4 or 5 grandmas by joining my local stitching group where we do all sort of sewing, knitting, crochet etc. Listening to their stories about their younger days and seeing what they get up to today is so fascinating. I often forget that elderly people had lives before they turned 70. Also seeing them have fun in their older years is also amazing. Like one of them goes to latitude every year. Another one worked as a burlesque dancer when she was younger. One of them met her husband through a lonely hearts newspaper column. They all have such varied lives and its made me appreciate growing older. Im only 22 so im still miles away from being 70 or 80 but I feel a lot less scared of wrinkly skin and aching bones when I look at them and see there is joy in every age of your life.
that's lovely :,)
This is the sweetest comment 😭 I feel so happy for you and all your lovely grandmas!!!
this was very generous of you to share this family activity with us. thank you, PJ. happy christmas
Grandad drinking at 9AM is iconic, relatable, and girl boss power
The old man laugh that his granddad does is so adorable.
He he 😄
as a 2nd gen italian immigrant to england this video means so much to me :') and i will be trying the recipe!! for any non-italian speakers who can't be bothered to use google translate, here's the handwritten recipe at 10:34 :
5 eggs
1 cup oil
1 cup sugar
liquors, whichever you want to put
beat eggs, sugar, oil, liquor
put the flour with your fingers
i implore you, make them well [there isn't a really good translation for "ti raccomando", it's much more colloquial in italian than it sounds in english lol]
thank you, Lina
"Farina condita" actually means seasoned flour, "con dita" would be with your fingers 😂
I love this kinda recipes where it is basically a list of ingredients that you have to feel how much you need to put
That is the true grandparent type of cooking right there. No determined amounts, just vibes.
How wholesome, much love to grandpeej
Granddad passing the torch (biscuit)
My grandma (Abuela) used to make this soup that I loved so much. Unfortunately none of my family asked her how she made it and now that she has passed away, I can remember the way it tasted when I eat my sad attempts at recreating it. This was a great video. Much respect to your grandpa
i really read that as soap and was so confused the more i read
*hugs* I have some similar questions of my grandparents who passed and now we're all like "well... that's not it"
As an Italian, I just realized that I do indeed kiss both cheeks of my grandparents when I greet them 😂
my grandma (who immigrated from Italy to Canada as a young girl), wanted all her amazing recipes to die with her, so she refused to teach them to anyone or write them down. Her pizza was my favourite food of hers though. I remember her teaching me to make her pizza when I was a child, and I said something like,
“Why are you showing me if you don’t want people to know?”
And she said, “You’re 6, you won’t remember.”
She was right, I don’t remember the recipe lol, but I’m glad I remember cooking with her :) and that memory still makes me laugh
This video was more like a short-film I'd see at a festival. I absolutely loved it, and would love to see more videos like this, if you like making them PJ. Thank you for this reminder to visit my grandparents, and listen to their stories more often.
dude your grandpa is doing amazing for 94!! congrats!!! 🎉
You put too close!!! lol
All of my grandparents passed before I was old enough to appreciate things like traditions and recipes, so seeing your family have moments like this is cathartic, especially around the holidays. Thank you for sharing!!
Well, PJ, I liked a lot of the phrases. Thank you for sharing this with us. What a sweet lil video.
"I threw a roast potato at my granddad"
"you put too close!"
"tall dark horse of an uncle"
I didn’t expect this video to make me tear up but here I am 😭 I never got to meet my grandad on my mom’s side and the other one on my dad’s side died when I was little, so maybe that’s why this video is so touching for me. the handwritten recipe at the end definitely gave me the knockout blow 😭 so sweet, and my grandma’s called Lina too!
also nintendad cameo!
“You put too close” puts Gordon Ramsay’s “it’s raw” to shame
thank you for sharing this precious family recipe with us! You don't really realise how big of a treasure it is until you find out how many recipes were lost over the years because people had no one to pass them to.
My goal for next year is to learn all the recipes from my mum. I bring shame on my family's name and don't know how to make borsch yet for example haha
For obvious reasons I started feeling more strongly about my culture's preservation. I wanna know stuff that will help me always have it with me, even if I lose some material things or my home eventually.
I love that you put the original recipe at the end! I’ll try and make grandpa Liguori biscuits for my family :) my aunt has a chocolate pie (crostata) which uses mugs for measuring so I guess I’ll be fine haha
I'm going to give it a try as well, non alcoholic and gluten free.
"I wonder what my grandad biscuits will be" - I love this as a way to think about small legacies
As much as baking seems like it should be an exact science, a lot of the time it's really more about the ratios of the ingredients to each other than it is about exact measurements. As long as you use the same cup to measure your ingredients and use whatever the right ratio is, it will usually work out, regardless of if it's a huge mug or a smaller cup. It's always so nice to see how much love and care older relatives put into making things with their family members, even if they've gone a bit hard of hearing and mostly make you watch as they make the biscuits, it's really lovely that you still have such a good relationship with your grandfather, and that he's still chugging along at 94!
This video was so sweet and heartwarming. I never really met my grandfathers because I'm the youngest in my generation so I was a baby when they passed, kind of the same with my grandmothers so I usually find it hard to watch these because I don't like to know what I missed out on, I also can't really relate, but all the same this video had me smiling all the way through. So this is who your liar trait comes from! But thank you PJ for sharing this moment with us of your family
I love your grandads laugh, he reminds me so much of my grandpa- he had such a sense of humour and seeing Grandad Pj laughing knowing he had all that wine in the garage just reminds me of him- for my grandpa the secret was all the chocolates he wasn't supposed to have tucked in a little jar nearby. That and swearing as much as he could and turning of his hearing aid so my gran could tell him off till the cows came home and he would just laugh, blissfully switched off from her squeals of annoyance 😂
it's so sweet because you can tell the grandpa doesn't really understand all the questions pj does and he just answers back a "hehehe" "no" same, if you find yourself in a position when you don't understand something, just smile and nod hahahaha
really sweet video!!
I wasn't expecting wholesome Grandad content, but I'm here for it and a lot teary. Everyone is so lucky to still have grandparents around and a good relationship with their grandparents. As for the measurements, my grandma had some recipes like that and when it's not an exact measurement, you 'measure from the heart'. It's a Southern/Island Virginia thing.
i think its a grandparents thing because my nan from ireland is the exact same :')
I definitely agree how taste is an underutilized part of nostalgia. When I was a kid my grandpa used to make a stew that I used to love so much, but he never taught it to my mom or any of my relatives and he's losing his memory now and is too weak to stand on his own nowadays. So it's really a lovely idea to learn recipes as a way to preserve tangible memories
his little hehe is so good
i never met my great grandfather, but he, too, moved from a small Italian town to find work in bricklaying, in the United States. he moved here at 17 years old in 1923. he died thirty years before i was born, but his spaghetti and meatball recipe has been passed down by my grandmother. its like you said about the biscuits - ive never found a spaghetti sauce that matches the taste, and the ingredients/amounts werent measured exactly. in the past year ive been able to get in contact with much of his family, family we previously hadnt heard about, through my ancestry research. thank you for sharing with us, PJ :)
This is so sweet. I don’t have any living grandparents, and haven’t for many years. I wish I could have had more moments like you have, cherish them!
I’m in tears! This reminds me so much of my grandma! She is still alive at 96 years old but, unfortunally, she can’t do much now-a-days. It’s such a shame how we take so long to appreciate and truly get to know our grandparents! I would love a video, next september, on grandad Ligouri’s wine!
Grandads Biscuit Recipe (to my best estimation):
6 eggs (whisked)
1 mug sugar
1 mug oil
1 shot of brandy
Several heaping tablespoons of flour until you reach a thick batter consistency
Drop a tablespoon mound of the mixture onto some icing sugar and coat it, place onto baking tray with parchment paper.
"cook until ready" whatever that means, but I'll assume 365f for 15-20 minutes???
My grandparents had a vineyard and we pressed grapes and made wine every year. Also a dish that is close to a grape juice pudding with cinnamon and crushed walnuts.
I love his little laugh. It makes me think of my grandmother’s smoker’s cackle. I miss her alot.
I always wanted videos of my grandparents, because after you lose them (I’m 2 down) you would do anything to hear their voices again❤ I’m so glad you were able to do that with your Grandad and that it can be a cherished moment for years to come!
PJ's heart-to-hearts are one of my favourite elements of his channel.
I absolutely adored the footage near the end of the household bits and bobs. There is a whole story in every corner of every home that we will never know, but means the world to a person. I love those little stories
Much love to you Peej, thank you for this heartfelt video. A majority of my grandparents passed quite young, and as a grandkid born in between generations to older parents I didn't really get to know any of them, so I'm learning to treasure the older people in my life more and more the older I get, too.
Oh your granddad is a doll. I miss my grandfather so much. I’m 42 and he passed away from cancer when I was about 24. He is the only positive male figure I’ve ever had in my life. I wish my boys could have had more time with him.
My grandmother is 95 and a few years ago my cousin and I decided to go to her house and try to learn how to make her dressing before she wasn’t able to teach us anymore. We live in the south in America and dressing is the southern version of stuffing, but different. My grandmother’s was made from scratch and it turned out to be hard to record a recipe lol. She doesn’t exactly measure as she cooks and she just adds ingredients as she goes to make it taste how she wants it to. It was always delicious. I tried it this Christmas myself and yes it thankfully was good and similar to hers but idt anything will ever be as good as my grandmother’s ❤
This was a really cute video and it came at a great time for me. My granny passed away just a few weeks ago, and her ''Grandad biscuits'' were Chocolate Biscuit Cake. She made it for all the family gatherings and it tastes like my childhood - even though it's really simple I've never eaten something exactly the same. My aunt made the chocolate biscuit cake when we met up at Christmas this year, and it was perfect - I intend to keep the tradition in the family for as long as possible. Whenever I eat it now I'll not only feel that childhood nostalgia but think of her
3/4 of my grandparents already passed away - my grandma before she even turned 60, and both of my grandpas in their early 60s. sometimes i think about what our relationship would be like now when i’m 24 and about how they haven’t seen any of my important life events. when i see adults spending time with their grandparents it feels sort of bittersweet but i’m so glad people get to have that in their lives
I'm getting teary-eyed and I'm two minutes in. My grandfather is 92 and I hope I get to share some time like this with him. He's still very active, I have to bring his power sander that I borrowed back to him, so he can sand and repaint his benches before spring.
Thank you for sharing this moment with your grandad. This video took me back to having small moments like this with my late grandfather. This was so heartwarming and lovely to see you with your family. ❤ I hope that you’re able carry on his recipe. Also, how’s the wine? :)
I had a similar experience when my grandmother finally taught me how to make her cornbread dressing. She's had a lot of surgeries, and she hasn't been able to cook in large batches anymore. So now, it's up to me to make the cornbread dressing that my dad and I love so much.
This is such a comforting video to watch over the holidays. Thank you, PJ!
PJ, I understand those existential thoughts very well. my morfar immigrated to Chicago from Stockholm when he was 19 (also was a bricklayer) and before he passed he used to tell me that he wished he stayed in Sweden after he met my grandmother (when he was in the army and stationed in France). Though I'm glad that I have been able to reconnect and stay in touch with my family in Sweden, and now I have his families pannkakor, risgrynsgröt, and glögg recipes that I can make my own.
The handwritten recipe at the end is the gem for me. Elders are archives. Lovely.
I never really had a relationship with my grandparents. Between the generational trauma, the deaths, the accidents, the coming out… things got lost to time, or translation, or lack of understanding. I hope my children and grandchildren will one day look back on the memories we will make and feel that we have relationships of love like this.
love that grandad absolutely freewheeled them biscuits and yet they came out tasting exactly how u remembered them. just wonderful
As someone who's left their life behind and moved to another country for better opportunities: I respect and admire your grandpa - I'm only 23, and I'm struggling immensely to survive without my usual support network. Currently sick for the third time in four months due to overexhaustion and harsh living conditions. The only thing I could think of when listening to your grandpas story is: he went through the same, but so, so many years ago when everything was this much more difficult. It's insane to think about.
pj this is a beautiful video, i echo the sentiments at the end!! this christmas i saw my great nan who’s 98 and still got the majority of her faculties - she’s incredible!! i recorded her once in 2018 talking about her childhood. it seems so long ago when i did that, like now i live halfway across the country so its not easy to see her as much any more. but i will hold onto that voice recording when she’s gone!! ❤
what a breathtaking video. the tender shots of the little magical spots around the house when taking about what you will pass on was amazing. i hope he knows how loved he is!!
"you put too close!" - granddad liguori, 2023
This is such a sweet and amazing video. My grandparents are from Italy as well (though they moved away when they were much younger than your grandad so they didn’t maintain a lot of the traditions and language). They’re the same age too and it brings me a lot of joy to use my grandmothers recipes! She also gets so happy to hear I make her pizzelles every year, it’s just a wonderful tradition. I feel like my grandpa is a lot like yours too, so this video just warms my heart! 💖 (Side note, it’s actually my grandmothers birthday today so this is even amazing timing for me to have seen this video lol)
For real, this video reminds me of my late grandma, she passed during the pandemic. I'm not good with Mandarin and she's not good with English, but we still laugh and hang out all the time. This made me miss her extra.
Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing this with us PJ. This had me in tears happily remembering when my grandma taught my dad and I how to make her famous homemade family bread with a recipe straight from Slovakia. Such special memories and a wonderful recipe that I'm looking forward to passing down in the future
I just lost my grandfather in September and we were fortunate enough to know a little ahead of time that he had dementia (even though it was organ failure that ultimately caused him to pass) but I was able to get a day of learning to make his famous chili and record videos of him preparing it so this video hit extra close to home ❤❤ thanks for the comfort video pj I needed it ❤❤
this was so comforting with just the right touch of painful melancholy :') i wonder why i feel like crying
i love this so much! i wish i was a little closer to my italian roots myself, but my grandmother was a late-in-life baby and stopped speaking italian when she went to school because she was getting made fun of (her parents never spoke english), and she didn't remember it anymore by the time i was around since her parents died when my dad was an infant. it's so great that you have these connections and i loved seeing you and your grandfather interact like this. such a special moment, and so great that you will have this video to look back on in the future.
Reminds me of my grandfather! Your videos are always so whimsical and wonderful to watch!
Thank you for sharing your grandad with us! Never had grandparents growing up ~ I suppose it sort of touches a part of the heart that was never formed!
Anywho ~ those *grandad biscuits* look DELICIOUS and now I want to go straight into the kitchen for a bake! Guessing in cooking is so much easier than guessing in baking, though!
this video you can truly see how special this was for you and to film! thank you for sharing with us!
Had a similar experience with my grandma recently… sharing recipes is such a special act
My Grandma used to make the best beef casserole. We attempted to learn it from her, my mum watched exactly how she did it and copied it, but it never tasted quite the same. Sometimes there's some extra grandparent magic too to give it the flavour we remember
This is really quite a beautiful video Pj, thank you for sharing something so vulnerable so candidly
My mom’s side of the family is Italian. My mom grew up on a farm and her family speaks a near-dead language. My grandfather passed away when I was young but my grandmother and I have cooked tons together to the point that she gave me her old pasta maker when we got her a new one
Thank you PJ. I lost my grandparents last Christmas and this warmed my heart. I am so glad that you have these memories and thank you for sharing this with us
thanks for making this video its so sweet :,) really reminded me of my own grandad and his jam in the garage! and got me very nostalgic. hope you guys had a good Christmas
Thank you so much for sharing this, PJ. I'm 56 and there's always been a part of me that's sad about never knowing my grandads. One died shortly after I was born, and the other emigrated to Australia before I was born and I only ever got to meet him (and that grandma) once. Treasure your grandparents, people🥰
oh, this one is a very special one! my grandparents have a similar story, having moved from a small village in Italy to a city in France in their early twenties, and I remember growing up doing silly things with my grandfather and learning to cook with my grandmother 💛 I miss her a lot and this video made me feel a bit closer to this period of my life, so thank you pj for sharing this gem with us!
As someone whose grandad was also an italian immigrant (tho he migrated to austria, not the uk) this was really heartwarming and it was really interesting recognizing some similarities, like the focus on a respectful greeting. I'm so glad you get to make precious memories like this with your grandad
Such a wholesome and warm video
This makes me miss my grandparents..
Hope you and your family have a safe and happy new year!
this video is so sweet, what a lovely time capsule for the future man. the last part hit me, i also wonder what ill be known for within my family, that is such a sweet sentiment i never thought of it that way
My grandad still bakes his own sweet bread for christmas and it is a tradition that got from my great grandad who came from Italy to Argentina looking for better opportunities. When I was little my grandad would also bake pizza every thursday for the whole family. Nowadays I bake them every once in a while. Those little traditions are good to keep alive. Lovely video PJ.
the biscuit recipe reminds me of that one french yogurt pot cake where just about every ingredient is measured using a yogurt pot, only instead of a yogurt pot it's a mug
this was such a lovely video, thank you for sharing it with us! my grandad is around the same age as yours an he is an immigrant too. he would always tell me stories about how he left his home country to come to work here, and now that I'm older I am in awe at how young he was when he made that decision. he loves to cook and has a beautiful garden, and he still shares his memories with me. grandparents are such a treasure
I’ve recently been able to spend more time with my grandpa this holiday season, as he has moved into a care home closer to where I live. It is such a beautiful thing to share memories and learn from the older people in our families. They have lived so much life and have so much to share with us even if it may not necessarily seem so at surface level. Thank you for sharing this lovely moment with your granddad! I hope the oil-filled biscuit tradition lives on for a long long time :)
My dad’s been a baker since he was 16. He’s taught me everything I know how to make. But nothing will ever taste as good as the way he makes it. It’s made with soul and love and nothing can recreate that
such a sweet and cozy video ;-; love the measuring of ingredients with just heart and vibes, your grandpa is adorable 😆 am so happy for you that you're able to share this experience with your granddad and preserve something so special to you ❤️
taste is such a strong nostalgia-evoker for sure. my grandma on my mum's side always used to buy me wanton noodles from a specific place whenever she visited because she knew I loved it, and whenever I have it now I always think of her. The quality has dropped unfortunately so I can't say they're the best tasting anymore, but they're still my favourite noodles and I love them all the same simply because of the nostalgia and warmth that comes with eating them.
thank you for sharing this lovely video with us!
This is so wholesome! The older I get the more I realize how precious the knowledge of my elder family members is. I feel so grateful that only a few months before my grandma died I learned my grandma’s mince tart recipe. I was surprised to discover that all along she bought the tart shells and premade mincemeat and put them together to bake! She bamboozled us all our whole lives. I love it. It makes me laugh!
Asking for your granddad’s recipe probably meant a lot to him. This was an act of love going both ways 💚
That is such a wholesome video, your grandad seems like an incredible person !! Love that little insight into your family history ^^
pj, you put too close!! no good!!
in all seriousness, this was such a lovely video. nothing better than connecting with your relatives in a way that you weren’t able to when you were younger
this is such a beautiful video PJ :)) i really wish i'd done the same thing with my grandma's recipes a few years ago, but we lost her so unexpectedly when i was 16 that i never got the chance. thank you for showing such appreciation for grandparents ❤❤❤
such a heart warming video,Grandpa ligouri is a treasure 💖 thank you for sharing such a lovely video of you’re family ❤
Growing up I wasn’t fortune enough to have grandparents they had all passed away before I was born. After my mother passed I grew up in a very unstable home.
Until I was placed into foster care and I met the most wonderful woman ever she is like my mother and the most amazing grandma to my daughter. I’m forever grateful for what she has done for me. She has a heart of gold and my daughter is so lucky to have such a wonderful grandma she is already starting to build memories with her 💖
I recently got to sit with my grandma and record her stories, she's 92 and this video gave me the same warm feeling that sitting with her gives me. sending much love to you and your grandad
i loved seeing this and your reflections. reminded me of my grandpa who also moved to the uk from italy as a young man and we always did the same greeting
aww this is so sweet!!! the little "hehe"s that he makes tooo!! thank you for sharing! asking for family recipes is hard, i hope you made an edit somewhere for your family that shows all the cooking steps for the future!
This video made me cry. The homely feel is so present, thank you for what you do!
Loved this video so much! It’s sad that when we’re young and our grandparents are still around and healthier that we don’t tend to care much about their lives and histories and traditions. Then as we get older and we start to care and be interested, they’re dead or have health issues that make it hard for them to be themselves. I love that you’re taking this interest and filming things, that’s so precious and you’ll cherish it forever. ❤
This was a much needed reminder to spend more time with family and to ask them about their experiences and learn from them. Thank you very much for this ❤️ My grandma used to make these amazing sweet waffles that I learned how to make before she passed and every time I make them for my family now our apartment smells like home and I can taste her love in every bite ❤️
beautiful piece of storytelling pj!! rly made me think abt my own fam and nostalgic ties at an important time of year for us :o)
This was such a sweet, heartfelt video! Your Grandad's chuckles made me smile!
What a great vid PJ. Thanks for sharing this set of moments with all of us.
The sweetest thing 🥹🥹🥹 grandparents are so special and your grandad seems like such a character. And your exactly right we should cherish every moment we have with them ❤️
My grandpa was an immigrant from Portugal and we used to make wine together. He passed at the age of 106 due to pneumonia in 2021. I miss him every day, he was my favorite person in the world. I'm so glad he shared his recipie with you! This video made my day, thank you.
Loved this video, it reminded me of Sunday afternoons when my grandma would come to visit and we'd chat or just sit in comfortable silence. Feel really grateful I had those memories with her ❤️
This is so similar to a project I've wanted to do with my grandmother for such a long time and I'm so glad you took the time to make this with your grandad, its so beautiful! I cried when he gave you the measuring mug
Humble and honest, god bless grandad pj ... and yes something about grandparents and measurements - its a pinch, a glug, a dollop or a smidge in our house!