My mother maintained an old, gray Cookbook Journal for many years. I inherited this and it is one of my greatest treasures. It holds all the old family recipes. Yet several years ago, I lost it - somewhere in my house! I searched every nook and cranny, turning over nearly everything I own, trying to find the Cookbook. No luck until several days ago. I found the Cookbook, right in front of me, in a storage cube/footrest I hardly ever open!
In the Cookbook were the same old recipes I remembered, Cherry Winks (cookies), Nellie's Orange Cake (from Courier-Journal food editor, Cissy Gregg) and Topping, Lebkuchen (German Christmas Cookies), Kitchen Dough (a German Kuchen Dough) with Cinnamon Topping, German Potato Salad, Rum Balls, etc. One of the first dated recipes is Oatmeal Cookies from Marie Kubistal, Bremerhaven, Germany, 1948. This book is really irreplaceable!
What I didn't recall was a section, p. 44, Family Records. I don't ever remember seeing these pages. Starting with Mom and Dad's marriage in 1941 are listed all family engagements, marriages, births, deaths, and divorces, along with the cities, churches or hospitals where these occurred. With some babies, their birth weight and length is noted (example: Adrianna Mary, 9# 8 1/2 oz, born Oct. 8, 1981, Italy). This is an invaluable source for my search into family history!
There are several blank pages. I will have to consider which recipes my own family loved the most, write them in and date them - and leave some pages blank for the next generation!
Along with scanning old family photographs, I plan to scan the pages of this Cookbook Journal, and create a DVD for all interested family members. Meanwhile, into my Family Tree on ancestry.com will go all the names, places, and dates.
In my mind this 'find' is similar to Jesus' parable in the Bible of The Pearl of Great Price (Matthew 13: 44). "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."
Lord, we thank you for all our 'treasures,' especially when we find lost ones! We ask you for the wisdom and energy to use all our treasures to accomplish the most good in our lives.
FYI: lest you or I think I'm 'super granny,' you need to know that my cold had progressed to the point I needed to take medicine, I am taking the decongestants and actually feel better now. Nursy advice: please, please, please! don't let your minor illnesses go on too long before seeking medical attention. I have seen too many people in the hospital ICUs that let their illnesses progress into pneumonia, blood poisoning, total kidney failure, etc. I have seen too many people die of this! I'd much rather have a doctor tell me, "you really don't need antibiotics for this," than have to go through bags and bags of IV antibiotics in the hospital in an attempt to rescue me from block-headedness.
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