Holidays and Childhood Memories
This past Wednesday in the New Times food section, The Article (yes I know it is called Dining, but to me it is the food section,) there was an article from Melissa Clark in her A Good Appetite column called Reinventing a Childhood Memoiry. link to be added later. She perfectly outlines what family recipes mean to her. But some of those recipes were dishes we did not like but they are the foods of our youth and part of that celebration. Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kipper have a long list of family favorites and what I call great memory and great stories but I rather not eat it. My Grandmother, Oma, made the worst matzoth balls. They were small and hard as a rock. A spoon cold not cut through those matzoth balls. Some where along the food trends soft matzoth balls have found favor and I am all for it.
There should be no dilemma about changing a family handed down recipe. If no one will eat it, what difference does it make to keep on passing it down. Offer the original recipe as part of our family heritage or family traditions but the update the recipe to current tastes. I have created a cookbook just for Yom Kipper the fast day. Yes, you eat before you fast and those recipes are the same in my family for the last 100 years, maybe even longer. But how to breakfast is individual in each family and that what I wanted to hand down. Of course I used the free cookbook template from Microsoft and it looks really nice in the notebook I but it in.
Cookbook writing is not rocket science. Used your common sense and it will be wonderful and our family love it and you for making it!
There should be no dilemma about changing a family handed down recipe. If no one will eat it, what difference does it make to keep on passing it down. Offer the original recipe as part of our family heritage or family traditions but the update the recipe to current tastes. I have created a cookbook just for Yom Kipper the fast day. Yes, you eat before you fast and those recipes are the same in my family for the last 100 years, maybe even longer. But how to breakfast is individual in each family and that what I wanted to hand down. Of course I used the free cookbook template from Microsoft and it looks really nice in the notebook I but it in.
Cookbook writing is not rocket science. Used your common sense and it will be wonderful and our family love it and you for making it!
Posted by Hella at 9/12/2009 9:59 AM 
Categories: Cookbook Writing, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook, My Families Recipes, You can change those recipes
Tags: family cookbook heirloom cookbooks cookbook writing family memory cookbooks family traditions
Categories: Cookbook Writing, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook, My Families Recipes, You can change those recipes
Tags: family cookbook heirloom cookbooks cookbook writing family memory cookbooks family traditions
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