In article >,
FERRANTE > wrote:
(snippage)
> Maybe we're not meant to get it just right. Maybe we're just meant to
> make something tasty, but always know that it was not as good as our
> "Moms."
>
> Just a suggestion: maybe the "moms" here might make up a recipe box
> with index cards and give their kids recipes to the things they love
> most (as gifts). As the years go by, just keep adding more index cards
> with more of their favorites and when your gone, your kids will always
> feel good when they see them and your handwriting.
>
> Thanks everyone so very much!
> Mark
>
>
>
> >Christine


I've been a proponent of that for years here, Mark. :-) In our cyber
age, there IS something very special about seeing a loved one's
handwriting from long ago.

My mother was foreign-born and her formal education stopped at 8th
grade; English is a difficult language to speak and write and she was a
phonetic speller. :-) I smile every time I open her old Rumford
cookbook with her recipe for Otmel Cukis written in the front cover.
She'd be 108 this year and has been dead for 25 years. Vicnaja pamjat'.
There's a special satisfaction, Mark, when others say that yours "tastes
just like Mom's." (I've been on the receiving end of that one. <g>)
Good luck in your attempts to replicate one of the favorite things your
mom made for you; I'm sorry for your loss.
--
-Barb
<http://jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 7-10-06, Rob's Birthday Lunch
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."