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Default Spin-off of Squeaks' Family Recipe Collections and Nostalgia

On Mon 26 May 2008 06:36:58a, kilikini told us...

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> Waxing wistful for Mom's own words has me posing this to you:
>> If you were to hand write, say, five recipes for your kids to remember
>> you by, which would you include?
>>

>
> This is an interesting question, Barb, I've enjoyed reading the
> responses. When I was a kid, I always thought my mom was a decent cook.
> She stayed at home and made us breakfast, packed our lunches, made
> dinner and dessert - every day. She usually "winged" her recipes and
> never wrote them down. Some I've tried to prepare on my own, but it's
> never the same, you know what I mean?
>
> The few she has written down that I'd pass along if I *had* anyone to
> pass them to a
>
> My grandmother's German potato salad
> My grandmother's German red cabbage
> My grandmother's chicken noel (chicken baked in mushroom soup with
> sherry) My grandmother's roast pork and sauerkraut
> My grandmother's German egg pancakes (like crepes)
>
> Okay, so they're all my grandmother's recipes. LOL. Funny thing is
> that I only met my grandmother, twice before she died, and I don't
> remember it because I was really little. :~)
>
> kili
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Wow, Kili, I would love all of those recipes. I love German food!

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