Family Recipes
Sharing Recipes and Anecdotes by Kim Prissel
I was looking through Recipe Books today and came across something that I thought would be a great inspiration for all of us. This recipe book had recipes, of course, but it also had an anecdote with the ingredient list. The anecdote told a little bit about who and where the recipe came from. It was interesting to see some local traditions thrown in too.
I thought about all the recipes I have collected over the years from family and friends and some of the stories that went along with those cards. Some of my recipes were given to me by my grandmother. For years I never used them because when she wrote them down, she never used actual measurements. It would call for six scoops of flour, a soup spoon of this or that. Well how was I supposed to know how much that was? It wasn’t until after she died that I found out. My aunt had kept her canister set and when she took it home, inside the flour canister was the old crockery cup Grandma used to measure flour. My aunt put flour into the old cup and then poured it into a new measuring cup. It measured exactly a cup. Anyhow, I shared some recipes I had with my Aunt and she shared the measurements with me and we both ended up with some wonderful recipes and memories.
I made sure to write on the backs of the cards where the recipes came from and converted the measurements. I did the same for the ones I got from friends and relatives. Now I’m thinking it would be fun to create a family recipe book and share some anecdotes with our far flung family members. Like the one about how my son thought sesame seeds were ‘germs’. Some of these little stories are the most precious to families, be sure to share them
About the Author
Kim Prissel is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/
which is a site for Writers.
Crock-Pot Family Recipe
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