re: Just Got My Hands on a Hard-to-find Local Cookbook!

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it's a book that means nothing to anyone but me, but my grandmother is a very good cook, and particularly skillful at making candies. Several years ago, I asked if I could have her recipes, but that I'd like them written in a book, because she has beautiful handwriting. After many months, she had added all the recipes she thought I'd like and gave it to me.

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Awesome. My grandparents passed away within about 8 months of each other, with my grandpa going last. My mom and sisters found a bunch of old index cards of hand-written recipes, stuffed into various cookbooks. There were also some post-it notes on recipes in the books that were nice. One of them said something about my grandfather liking it, and she would fix it again. Yes, fix, not cook. We are old southerners after all. What's funny to me is there wasn't much the old man wouldn't eat. He used to shoot squirrels with a .22 and ask her to fry them up for him. I think my older sister has all of the cards they found and is going to make copies for all of us.