"Kate ......" > wrote in message
...
> I was just thinking , your mil just may not remember the recipe and her
secrets
> there of. My mil fooled us for years , until she was so bad we had to see
she
> had big problems. She had Alzheimer's disease. And we were upset at her
more
> than once about things we thought she was being unreasonable about.
Looking
> back we know she was not. Just didn't want us to know she was so
forgetful.
> Hugs ..... kate
>
You know, Kate, I started to think the same thing a couple of months ago.
She may very well not be able to remember it (she just turned 80). Sigh. I
think I'll let the whole thing drop, rather than cause her any
embarrassment. As someone else suggested, I'll just try out some new
recipes until I hit on something similar. Lord knows I could use the
practice.


Merry Christmas or Celebration of your Faith,
Jan

The Goods wrote:

> "Kate ......" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I was just thinking , your mil just may not remember the recipe and her
> secrets
> > there of. My mil fooled us for years , until she was so bad we had to see
> she
> > had big problems. She had Alzheimer's disease. And we were upset at her
> more
> > than once about things we thought she was being unreasonable about.
> Looking
> > back we know she was not. Just didn't want us to know she was so
> forgetful.
> > Hugs ..... kate
> >
> You know, Kate, I started to think the same thing a couple of months ago.
> She may very well not be able to remember it (she just turned 80). Sigh. I
> think I'll let the whole thing drop, rather than cause her any
> embarrassment. As someone else suggested, I'll just try out some new
> recipes until I hit on something similar. Lord knows I could use the
> practice.
>
> Merry Christmas or Celebration of your Faith,
> Jan

There ya go ! I bet if you get after it you will succeed. May even up her
recipe . Good luck and Merry Christmas. hugs , kate

I am so glad to hear the fruitcake recipe has become a joke in your
house. Your first message made it sound like the issues with your
mother-in-law were much more serious. Now it sounds more light hearted.

--Lia



The Goods wrote:
> I love this advice - it sounds like something I might be tempted to do.
> However my MIL now lives in an assisted living building, where all her meals
> are prepared for her, so she does no cooking at all. And my SIL has no
> children to baby-sit - one daughter all grown up. But I like the way you
> think!!! Actually, this has become a family joke at our house - the "sacred
> fruit cake recipe" - its become kind of like the search for the Holy Grail
> now. You really have to know my MIL to understand that this is so typical
> of her - everything has always been a big secret. I just wanted a similar
> recipe to serve her so I could tease her a bit. (And no, my husband is
> executor of her will and there is no recipe revealed within.)
>
> Thanks for the fun advice Lia.
>
> Jan

In article >, zxcvbob >
wrote:

> The Goods wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your help but, as you can see, I really don't think it would be
> > worth all the uproar. Instead I'll just serve my "banana bread with
> > cherries instead of nuts" again this year (sigh).
> >

My husbands grandmother was the gal who made the "Christmas Pudding"
every year and the year she moved into independant living, I made her an
offer.... I would continue her tradition of making the Christmas Pudding
on Thanksgiving weekend if she shared the recipe and if she came to help!

Now this woman is 94 and we've been making Christmas pudding together
for three years. She get's to pick out her choice of dinner (she's a
cheap date though, this year was hotdogs! LOL) and we make the pudding
(I have premeasured everything before she get's there, so all we have to
do is read the recipe.

She get's a bit tired now, but she's happy knowing her family is still
sharing her family recipe.

Ginners
--
Chris & Ginny

Chris Sargent wrote:
>
>
> My husbands grandmother was the gal who made the "Christmas Pudding"
> every year and the year she moved into independant living, I made her an
> offer.... I would continue her tradition of making the Christmas Pudding
> on Thanksgiving weekend if she shared the recipe and if she came to help!
>


What a VERY nice thing to do for Grandma. Kudos to you!

gloria p

Hark! I heard Chris Sargent > say:

> My husbands grandmother was the gal who made the "Christmas Pudding"
> every year and the year she moved into independant living, I made her an
> offer.... I would continue her tradition of making the Christmas Pudding
> on Thanksgiving weekend if she shared the recipe and if she came to help!
>
> Now this woman is 94 and we've been making Christmas pudding together
> for three years. She get's to pick out her choice of dinner (she's a
> cheap date though, this year was hotdogs! LOL) and we make the pudding
> (I have premeasured everything before she get's there, so all we have to
> do is read the recipe.
>
> She get's a bit tired now, but she's happy knowing her family is still
> sharing her family recipe.

What a nice idea! If there were any grandmothers left in my family
(my stepmother is a Grandma, but she's only a few years older than
I am), I'd like to try this myself...


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!