Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>
> Wayne, trust me when I tell you that the only thing you likely missed
> was the smile her handwriting would have brought to your face, which
> is not a small thing. I'm looking at my mother's recipe collections
> (one in a notebook sort of thing and another in a 3 x 5" card index
> box) and 90% of them are really, really bad recipes. These are recipes
> from the 50s that mostly read like the recipes on the packaging of a
> can or a box or a really bad women's magazine. OTOH, they're recipes
> that my mother thought interesting enough to write down and that's
> worth a bunch.

But this is the food we ate as kids. And my only sibling
does not cook, so I deserve ownership of that folder.

Remind me to pick up mom's manila folder of recipes
before it's too late. It's a few inches thick of
recipes clipped out of magazines, beginning in 1948
when my parents were married.