Over the past few months, we have moved my elderly Auntie Carol into memory care and have sorted through her belongings. One of the things that I’ve always had in common with Carol is that she loves to bake and cook, and I do as well. She had many recipe boxes full of her own recipes, as well as those from other relatives, including my grandmother, and I took all of those home with me. In my own collection there are recipes from my other grandmother and relatives from that side of the family.
After talking with my youngest daughter, who also loves to cook, we decided to start cooking through these recipes–the good sounding ones and the not-so-good sounding ones. We will document and give our taste test ratings to these recipes.
My daughter is currently living in a 5th wheel and doesn’t have a very large oven, but I will find recipes for her to try too.
When I cook them, I will note the substitutions I needed to make or the modifications I needed to do. Some measurements will require a bit of guesswork and some of the recipes don’t have any instructions, just a list of ingredients.
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I don’t use margarine, so any time a recipe calls for Oleo or Margarine, I will substitute butter.
Nearly all of the older recipes for cookies only call for shortening. My plan is to use an equal amount of shortening and butter to get the benefits of both (less spread with shortening, more flavor with butter)
Even though this doesn’t directly relate to books, I hope you’ll join us on our adventure through the recipes.
