The Proposition

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So. The here and now of the matter.

Not too long ago, while going through many things during a move for my in-laws, my wife was able to get her hands on something that many hold near and dear: her grandmother's recipe box. Having many memories of visiting her grandmother (who is still alive by the way) and having the various bakes that she would have for them.

My grandmother-in-law, before coming down with dimentia which she still struggles with today, used to be quite the avid bread maker and loved to get her hands on various recipes for bread both for a bread machine and for hand making. Me, being the bread lover that I am, was therefore very excited to see some of the recipes that she had kept away in this coveted recipe box just waiting for someone to pull back out and bring new life to again.

I was not disappointed.

Breads and cakes galore! Some handwritten on scraps of paper; some are typed up (typewriter typed of course) on index cards; some are clippings from various magazines through the years or the back of boxes. To top it all off, we also have a folder of various pickling recipes.

Some of these recipes look pretty straight forward: simple pie shells, coconut cream pie.
Some of these recipes look quite odd: chocolate cake made from mayonnaise??
Some of these recipes look like they might should stay tucked away: watermelon rind pickles (yes I have had these before; no I do not think it should have ever been done)
A lot of them....contain rum. You go, grandma!

So here is the deal:

These recipes obviously piqued enough interest in Nana to want to clip and save them or write them down, so they must have some merit to them. But do they really hold up to the test of time? I want to work my way through these recipes one at a time and see how they turn out.

We just want to see,

Hey....What's grandma cookin'?



EIO



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