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, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

> I've been trying to gather as many family recipes as possible
> recently. I have many from my mom and from some cousins and aunts, but
> my dad sent me some that are from his side of the family and one that
> takes its name from the same place our family name does.

You'll be lucky if the written recipes contain oven temps, quantities
etc. My family recipes are terse at best. It was assumed that the cook had
certain basic knowhow.

I love the one "bake til done".

If you can get the person to make the thing under your eyes, be sure
to stop him or her and measure everything.

My English mother did that with my French grandmother. It changed life
forever for everyone in the family. Cracked coffee cups were actually
altered into standards we could all understand. Plus my mother's cooking
improved to a lever that she was known over a lot of New England as "that
great cook."