Cookbooks and Hand Written Recipes, Oh my!
06-25-2012, 08:05 PM
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Some where in way out West Texas
Posts: 3,041
My neighbor passed away about 18 months ago. Her bachelor son has moved into her home and is gradually making the place his own. He asked me on Friday if I would like to have his mom's cookbooks. Absolutely! Yesterday morning he brought over 15 books from the 30's to current regional church cookbooks, along with a huge file drawer of 4x6 hand written recipes from when she was a young bride and throughout the rest of her life, some with the name of who gave her the recipe, some with the place she got the recipe. She and her husband traveled the world over so there are recipes from France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Holland, China, Japan, the only places I have not run across yet are Egypt and Turkey.
I am pretty amazed and overwhelmed by his generosity. I said I'd like to run across her recipe for stuffed grape leaves, He said "If you find her cheese cake recipe - that's the ticket!" I hope I can find it so I can make him one to repay him.
He gave me her sewing machine about 6 months after she passed because he knows I sew. I told him I would repair it and give it back so he would have one. He declined but said if he needed something sewn he'd bring it by. Then, about a month later I came home to find her Kitchen Aid mixer on my porch! He says he will never use these things and he knows his mom would want me to have them. She had cancer and for the last 2 months all she wanted to eat was home made bread. I baked bread every 2 days so she had fresh bread. She was a great lady, I miss her.
I am pretty amazed and overwhelmed by his generosity. I said I'd like to run across her recipe for stuffed grape leaves, He said "If you find her cheese cake recipe - that's the ticket!" I hope I can find it so I can make him one to repay him.
He gave me her sewing machine about 6 months after she passed because he knows I sew. I told him I would repair it and give it back so he would have one. He declined but said if he needed something sewn he'd bring it by. Then, about a month later I came home to find her Kitchen Aid mixer on my porch! He says he will never use these things and he knows his mom would want me to have them. She had cancer and for the last 2 months all she wanted to eat was home made bread. I baked bread every 2 days so she had fresh bread. She was a great lady, I miss her.
06-26-2012, 03:01 AM
#13
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Campton,Kentucky
Posts: 1,397
My neighbor passed away about 18 months ago. Her bachelor son has moved into her home and is gradually making the place his own. He asked me on Friday if I would like to have his mom's cookbooks. Absolutely! Yesterday morning he brought over 15 books from the 30's to current regional church cookbooks, along with a huge file drawer of 4x6 hand written recipes from when she was a young bride and throughout the rest of her life, some with the name of who gave her the recipe, some with the place she got the recipe. She and her husband traveled the world over so there are recipes from France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Holland, China, Japan, the only places I have not run across yet are Egypt and Turkey.
I am pretty amazed and overwhelmed by his generosity. I said I'd like to run across her recipe for stuffed grape leaves, He said "If you find her cheese cake recipe - that's the ticket!" I hope I can find it so I can make him one to repay him.
He gave me her sewing machine about 6 months after she passed because he knows I sew. I told him I would repair it and give it back so he would have one. He declined but said if he needed something sewn he'd bring it by. Then, about a month later I came home to find her Kitchen Aid mixer on my porch! He says he will never use these things and he knows his mom would want me to have them. She had cancer and for the last 2 months all she wanted to eat was home made bread. I baked bread every 2 days so she had fresh bread. She was a great lady, I miss her.
I am pretty amazed and overwhelmed by his generosity. I said I'd like to run across her recipe for stuffed grape leaves, He said "If you find her cheese cake recipe - that's the ticket!" I hope I can find it so I can make him one to repay him.
He gave me her sewing machine about 6 months after she passed because he knows I sew. I told him I would repair it and give it back so he would have one. He declined but said if he needed something sewn he'd bring it by. Then, about a month later I came home to find her Kitchen Aid mixer on my porch! He says he will never use these things and he knows his mom would want me to have them. She had cancer and for the last 2 months all she wanted to eat was home made bread. I baked bread every 2 days so she had fresh bread. She was a great lady, I miss her.
06-26-2012, 10:36 AM
#17
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: leavenworth, ks
Posts: 3,093
I have a really good cheesecake recipe that I can post for you to use. The recipe is my DH's and one of my best friends' favorite desserts for me to make. Guys at DH's job are always excited when he has some - they want him to share. 
06-26-2012, 10:54 AM
#18
Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 31
What a great friend and neighbor you were to her and I am sure her son deeply appreciates all you did to make his mother's last days the best they could be. He would want you to have her things for all the kindness you showed. Bless you!!
07-01-2012, 12:55 PM
#20
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Fox Valley Wisconsin
Posts: 1,920
What an awesome heartwarming story of sharing...both you and your neighbor. I hope you can find her cheesecake recipe to make for him. You have been blessed with a lot of treasures of recipes and her mixer, and her sewing machine. So good that he cared enough about his mother to make sure that they got a good home.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
craftybear
Recipes
4
10-09-2011 08:17 PM
craftybear
Recipes
6
04-29-2011 05:30 PM
craftybear
Recipes
2
04-07-2011 06:36 AM
craftybear
Recipes
39
01-13-2011 10:46 PM
