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Re: recipe secrets

"Joan and the Butterfly Dogs" <butterflydog@verizon.net>
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:42:24 -0500
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To the statement at the end below:  my feeling is why bother to even 
post that, as such statements are so frustrating to many of us. But I 
hope you will continue the tradition  ( pass on recipe ) in your 
family!  It's nice to pass down family traditions.

As another poster wrote about lost recipes:  I too, know many 
families whose relatives took their recipes to the grave and their 
families have only fond memories but not the recipe to carry on a 
family tradition.

We had an Aunt who made the most phenomenal home made cherry strudel 
for the holidays. Mom could never get the dough recipe right.

I remember my mother trying to replicate it dozens of times and it 
never came out the same. The aunt give bits and pieces of advice to 
mom on how to improve it but it was just never the correct recipe! I 
remember my mom saying to us how ugly and selfish this was on her 
aunt's part. It seemed like the aunt got pleasure from my mom's 
frustration and not getting the recipe right!

Anyway, my mom never did get the correct recipe and her aunt died 
along with her cherry cream cheese strudel recipe .

So sometimes I think to myself, how silly and sad that was all 
because of a recipe!


Happy Holidays to all

Joan

>While I am not willing to part with all of my secrets for an 
>authentic German Christstollen