| Cookbooks and recipes from your family are | | | | (that's a shame). |
| something you and your family value especially as | | | | I believe that all family recipes and cookbooks are a |
| they have been passed down generation to | | | | way of continuing family traditions. We all know that |
| generation. You can always taste good food all of | | | | weddings, anniversaries, family reunions, and even |
| the time, but in the back of your mind you'll say | | | | funerals can get family and friends together. |
| something like, those pancakes were good but they | | | | These events are far and in between, as good food |
| didn't taste like Aunt Ada's pancakes. You eat a | | | | can bring people together in a moments notice. All |
| delicious slice of pound cake, but in the back of your | | | | my mother-in-law Mackie has to say is "I'm gonna fry |
| mind you can only think of Aunt Olivia's pound cake. | | | | some chicken" and we're off to her house. My uncle |
| Of course you have tried to watch as your family | | | | will bring chicken from New Jersey just for her to |
| members prepared these foods but were never able | | | | cook. |
| to duplicate the taste without the actual recipe or | | | | Now the real question is how do we save and |
| the one on one lesson from the master cook. | | | | preserve these recipes? Let's be truthful, some |
| Aunt Ada's pancakes were thin with crispy edges and | | | | recipes are passed down and some will be taken for |
| always buttered to perfection served with pork link | | | | a lack of better words to the grave. With some |
| sausages. She would place them on the table stacked | | | | recipes or relatives you wouldn't have the courage to |
| high, with warmed syrup, then you would ask her | | | | ask for them, but if you don't ask you will never |
| "when are you going to eat?" her response was | | | | know. |
| always "I made those for you I already ate". Then I | | | | Let the recipe trustee know that the family enjoys |
| would eat pancakes until I passed out. | | | | and holds this recipe close to their hearts and |
| My Aunt Olivia's pound cake is the most delicious | | | | considers this recipe as a family tradition. Maybe they |
| thing you could ever taste. I mean when my Aunt | | | | could put this recipe in a special place which it can be |
| Olivia shows up to a family function of course we | | | | obtained when they are no longer able to cook or |
| asked her "how are you doing?", but we were really | | | | have gone to a better place. |
| asking "did you bring the pound cake?". There could | | | | Family recipes and cookbooks are meant to be |
| be a whole table of bakery purchased cakes and pies | | | | shared and enjoyed by all. Just like in the movie Soul |
| and none of them could compare to her pound cake. | | | | Food, food was a sharing of love. So get your family |
| It's so good that my mom actually tries to hide it | | | | cooks together and share your love of recipes |
| from me or offer me some other type of cake | | | | before it's too late. |