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On Sat 13 Dec 2008 11:46:18a, blake murphy told us...

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:33:08 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Fri 12 Dec 2008 10:53:32a, blake murphy told us...
>>
>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:52:40 -0500, Jean B. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>> On Thu 11 Dec 2008 11:07:22p, Damsel in dis Dress told us...
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:45:21 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu 11 Dec 2008 04:24:33p, Damsel in dis Dress told us...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We both tweaked the same recipe! LOL! It's a good one.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Carol
>>>>>>> How'd you get my great-grandmother's recipe, Carol? <g>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I got it, the list of ingredients were written on a piece of
>>>>>>> brown grocery sack, with minimal directions, which I expanded on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, it's a good one, no matter who makes it!
>>>>>> Here is where I found it:
>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.f...bd70d21b282076
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Carol
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That must have been a very early edition of the Fanny Farmer
>>>>> cookbook if my great-grandmother had the remnants of the recipe.
>>>>> The ingredients list was almost identical. Interesting...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Carol!
>>>>>
>>>> Heh! I have had similar discoveries about some of OUR treasured
>>>> family recipes!
>>>
>>> oh noes!!! great-grandma was a plagiarist!
>>>
>>> your pal,
>>> blake
>>>

>>
>> I never said my great-grandmother made up the recipe herself. I had no
>> idea where she got it. It was handed down to me on a piece of a brown
>> grocery sack. I'm guessing that someone also passed it along to her,
>> as I don't recall her having any cookbook but a very early edition of
>> The Good Housekeeping Cookbook.

>
> relax, wayne. no one will rat out g-grandma. just yankin' your crank.
>
> your pal,
> blake
>


I know. I was just 'splaining. :-)

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