In connection with your suggestion about cookbooks, after my four
children left home, they started requesting family recipes. I put
together all the recipes I normally used when they were home, plus a
few I thought they would like to have. Also, since two of them were
boys (on their own for the first time), I did a "how-to" section—how
to cook a beef roast, roast a chicken, etc. I added little cartoon
stickers, and at the bottom of a lot of the recipes, I put notes
about who liked what or some funny happening (e.g., the uncle who
liked to make his pancakes on top of the wood stove, or the child who
won't eat raspberries to this day because she was caught picking them
after being told to keep out). I put all of these recipes in three-
ring binders. When I visit my kids, I see these binders looking
either very used or redone, since the old one has obviously worn
out.
The recipe book is not a new idea in itself, but putting family jokes
or notes at the bottom of the recipes and giving credit for each
recipe's originator adds interest for the recipient.
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