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Recipes are like stories.
They get passed around and retold over and over again by family and friends, changing a little bit in the retelling until they become the property of the teller.
My Granny passed on more than ten years ago. After she died, my cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers and parents each wanted to have something of Granny, a keepsake, a physical memory that we could touch to help us remember all the summers we spent at her house, in her garden at her dock…city kids digging for worms and fishing in the Lake of the Ozarks and picking tomatoes.
I chose Granny’s recipes, an overflowing box of newspaper clippings, the back of boxes and her own unique scrawl sometimes on recipe cards that where gifts from my Mom and Aunt Doris but more times than not, they were jotted down on the complimentary notepad from the tractor seller that Papa visited or a used page from a calendar.
Handwriting is so personal. It’s like a fingerprint—so distinctive to that person that you need only see one written word to know who wrote it.
I look at these recipes, sometimes wrinkled around the edges, sometimes yellow with time and I’m back in Granny’s kitchen. I remember when she made that dish, hearing something fry on the stove, bacon grease in the air…
These are my Granny’s recipes. These are stories from my family.
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thanks for that