Did you ever wish you could undo an e-mail!!! WOW you would think I never used spell check before!!!! I butchered the first draft so bad I had to do it over.. Maybe I should re-read things before I push the "send" button. I had to fix it up a little. It sounds "more better" this way. Dale Talking about recipe books... While cleaning out mom's house we found an old recipe book and in between the pages were some hand written recipes on pieces of paper. After looking at the recipes further we discovered they were written on the back side of letters from my dad during WWII.. The recipes were in moms hand writing. An interesting find!! Always fishing for relatives, Dale Schmitz -------------- Original message -------------- From: d.schmitz@comcast.net Talking about recipe books... While cleaning out mom's house we found an old recipe book and in between the pager were some hand written recips on pieces of paper. The reverse side of the paper the recieps were on, were letters from my dad while he was in the army durning WWII.. An interesting find!! Always fishing for relivites, Dale Schmitz -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Mary R. Frank" <mrfrank@uwm.edu> > My maternal great-grandma had a strawberry cobbler recipe that was never > written down. One of these years I need to search for a strawberry > cobbler recipe, though I would have to modify it since I don't eat any > sugar, honey, etc. Not that this would have been a German recipe, but > your comments about the Settlement Cookbook reminded me of how important > recipes are in our memories. My mom kept all sorts of recipes in > self-stick books (yuk--I can't see the backs of some pages because they > are sealed down to the book). We have about 30 of these books. I have > started the process of copying them for all of us siblings. Of course, > my mom was just as apt to use recipes that had been printed in magazines > and books as she was to make ones that came from friends. I am copying > all the pages, but at first I was thinking the ones with her notes and > handwriting were the ones she used the most--until I found a magazine > clipping of a cookie recipe she made every year for decades. I think I > will have to make an index after the copying is done. I am a > vegetarian, though, so I won't be making any of those meat dishes, > German OR Greek... > > mrf > > > Maxine Capezza wrote: > > Mary > > Thank you so much. I am always looking for books about German > > immigrants and living conditions, etc. This is great. > > There is quite a historical cookbook originally called The Settlement > > Cookbook or maybe it was Settlement House. A group of women put it > > together for early immigrants and no one would publish it, so the > > husband of one of the women published it and I think it is still > > going. I have several editions and they are interesting to read even > > if we don't cook that way now. In the latest edition many of the > > recipes are updated, but the old ones are still printed in the > > book. Another aspect of our ancestors lives. Thanks again. > > Maxine > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message