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The cooks, amateur chefs, honored in this family cookbook represent real women whose lives, if you could ask them, might be characterized as ordinary. This family history cookbook might begin to suggest that our seeming mundane lives are extra-ordinary. We cultivate memories as experiences accumulated over a lifetime of changing times. And, we move from moment to moment between meals, for which we should be truly thankful.
Here, we’ve collected known recipes of our grandmothers, and in some cases, those of their grandmothers. For added interest—and as a tribute to these fine ladies—we’ve prepared vignettes describing their lives both in and away from their kitchens.
Generally, we remember the desserts we had at Grandmas; maybe that’s why cookies, cakes and pies dominate this collection. Main entrees for these women may have been routine that a recipe was hardly needed. Little did they know the morsels they prepared on any ordinary day of their life would become to us heirloom recipes.
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