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by Rachel Paxton
Remember the days when cookbooks weren't
so readily available, and you or your
mother relied on only one or two different
cookbooks for cooking all of your family's
meals? I still have my mother's old
cookbooks, as well as my grandmother's.
Each one is worn from age and use - if you
flip through the tattered pages it is
obvious which recipes were turned to time
and time again. These cookbooks will
always number among my most precious
treasures.
When our mothers wanted to try new
recipes, they most likely didn't run out
and buy new cookbooks. They often didn't
have the extra money to spend, and often
there weren't very many to choose from. So
where did they get new recipes? From each
other.
When I was a child I remember my mother
exchanging recipe cards with friends and
relatives and bringing them home and
filing them away in her recipe box. I
always loved going through her recipes
(although she often got mad at me for
getting them all out of order!)
All the years while I was learning how to
cook I went through her recipe box time
and time again, pulling out my favorite
recipes and preparing them again and
again.
Seeing who the recipes were from made them
all the more special. I also love looking
back at all the recipe cards I prepared
myself while I was in 4-H and spent much
of my time learning how to cook. I still
prepare many of the recipes I used back
then. To this day, all I have to do is
open my recipe card box, and I am
instantly transported back in time.
My mother hasn't exchanged recipe cards
with anyone in more than 20 years. I have
very few of my own (although I hope to
inherit hers someday!) But even to this
day there is no better place to find
favorite family recipes than in my
mother's recipe box.
Twenty years from now, I look forward to
going through my recipe box with my own
daughter, telling her stories about where
all of my different recipes came from.
About
the
Author:
Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and
mom who publishes the Creative Homemaking
Recipe of the Week Club, a weekly
newsletter that contains quick, easy
dinner ideas and money-saving household
hints. To subscribe send a blank e-mail
message to mailto:FreeRecipes-subscribe@egroups.com.
Visit Creative Homemaking at
http://www.creativehomemaking.com
and
in the Home and Garden section of Suite
101 - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/creative_homemaking
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