On 4/23/2013 11:33 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> Today I struck gold.
>
> Going through some old canning books, I found Mom's recipe for bread and
> butter pickles.
>
> Written in her own hand.
>
> It's the recipe that has won nine blue ribbons (and six of other colors)
> for me at the Minnesota State Fair. Handwritten! I can tell that she
> copied it from something - the spelling and punctuation were correct.
> (Usually when she wrote, the first word began with a capital letter and
> the document ended with a period. In between, you were on your own.)
> Vi?naja pamjat', Matka.
>

I had a recipe treasure find a few years ago. My favorite cookies are
salted peanut cookies, a treat from my childhood. I have the recipe
as written down by my mom (and I've tweaked it a bit), but to my joy I
found inside mom's old recipe box the original recipe clipped from the
Pioneer Press newspaper column. I discovered the original recipe
included cornflakes, which mom never bothered with.