Comments on: Of Recipes and Memories: A Frugal Gift Idea

By: bridesmaiddresses

bridesmaiddresses — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:02:10 +0000

Do not get your girls wear a plain white bridesmaid dresses.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:17:43 +0000

My mom made me a recipe book like this when I moved away from home a few years ago. Even though I am back (and heading over there for dinnner tomorrow night), I loved having my favorites at my fingertips. The best part is that almost everything is handwritten by my mom, it is something I will definitely be passing down to the next generation.
Great post!

By: Bucksome

Bucksome — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:01:59 +0000

Thank you so much for the inspiration to do this for our family. My mom has had a couple of health scares the past year and I want to do this before it gets too late.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:54:36 +0000

i really miss grandmothers food, nobody makes food like she did anymore. My mother is terrible cook and I have never seen my father in the kitchen yet.

By: Penny Saver

Penny Saver — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:29:41 +0000

My mom hand wrote a little journal full of our favorite childhood recipes and it is one of my cherished possessions. I love the little notations she put, like “Grandma’s Cornbread (but not quite as good)” which is funny because every time she served it, my dad said, “Almost as good as Grandma’s!”

By: Gladys Alofs

Gladys Alofs — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:12:57 +0000

Actually, what we did was take a brown paper grocery bag and cut it out to fit the cookie sheet. Yes, that was because we didn’t have parchment paper. Then you put the sheet of cookies on the bottom oven rack for 10 minutes, and then move it up to the top rack for 10 minutes. We would have 2 cookie sheets in the oven at all times, one would start out on the bottom, when 10 minutes was up you move that one to the top and put in the next sheet on the bottom.

I am Lynnae’s aunt (not the one that put the book together) and enjoyed cooking and baking with my mother very much.

Thanks for today’s memory lane, Lynnae

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:18:02 +0000

Brown paper- was like parchment paper.
10 up and 10 down- I would assume means make cookies small enough to have 10 cookies fit down the pan and 10 cookies fit up the cookie pan. 10 down and 10 up.

By: Julieanne

Julieanne — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:01:43 +0000

The other option is to bake the cookies a total of 10 minutes, 5 minutes on the upper-middle rack, and 5 minutes on the lower-middle rack.

I began making my own personal cookbook about three years ago. Ideally, I wanted to go through all of my regular cookbooks and type out the recipes I liked the most and place them in my personal cookbook…with the intent to give away the other cookbooks which would no longer be needed. I have done that with a couple of cookbooks, but definitely not all.

I’ve made sure to write down where the recipe came from, or who it came from, but I hadn’t thought to write down little bits of information about it being someone’s favorite, etc. I think I’ll start doing that! My girls have their own personal cookbook kit they received for a birthday gift last year from a relative, and they’ll begin adding their recipe favorites soon, too!

Julieanne
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/iLoveHomeschooling

By: Julieanne

Julieanne — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:58:34 +0000

“butter cookies, which are to be baked at 300 degrees on brown paper, 10 down & up”…Lynnae, I think this is what the directions meant: Bake butter cookies on pans lined with parchment paper (they would have used thin brown paper used for wrapping packages at the stores) at 300 degrees for 10 minutes on the upper-middle rack and then 10 minutes at the lower middle rack.

Hope that makes sense! And I hope it is right. A lot of my recipes from “America’s Test Kitchen” have very similar types of directions, so that’s what I would assume was meant here. I might be wrong, but it’s worth a try! 10 minutes on each rack seems a bit lengthy, but the temperature of the oven is lower, too, than most cookie recipes, so it may be right. Happy baking!

Julieanne
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/iLoveHomeschooling

By: wanda

wanda — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:10 +0000

Last February my daughter moved 1000 miles away. To say the least she didn’t get to drop by for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. However I spent lots of time on the phone walking her through some of her favorite mom recipes. So for Christmas I decided to make her a recipe book. Not only did I include recipes from myself but I tried to include recipes from all the women in her life. Grandmothers, in-laws, good friends, and even women from the church she grew up in. The only problem is it is yet to be finished. It has taken on a life of its own. I would say if you decide to do this make sure you decide how big or small you want it to be and give yourself plenty of time. I know she will be so happy when she gets it.