On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:05:45 -0400, Nina >
wrote:

>Yes, but people do ALL sorts of weird things, really. My mother has
>this eggnog recipe that she was like this about. I think she might
>seriously have wanted it to disappear with her death.
>
>No, I have no reasonable explanation about this, and it was really
>annoying, and I kind of think that it wasn't exactly an original
>recipe anyway.
>
><shrug>
>
>Nina

People sure can be weird with recipes. My grandmother made these
gawd-awful sweet pickles that were served at least once a week. As
kids we loved them because they were so sweet. By the time I left the
nest I couldn't stand them. She's 95 now and 10-12 years ago there
was a big deal made of her turning the recipe and pickle duty over to
my SIL. SIL isn't supposed to share the recipe until she passes it
on. Luckily SIL is a drunk and could never follow a recipe long
enough to ever make them. The weirdness stopped with me as I'll share
and help with any recipe I have, but my mom had the weirdo disease. I
stopped asking her for recipes of childhood favorites because she'd
change things. A 1/4 cup became 1/3. Things like that. Just enough
to make her's a little better than anyone else who made it. When I
developed a desire to learn how to cook it took me a few failures to
figure out what she was doing.

Family.....gurrrrrrrrr

Lou