In cleaning out Mom's various and assorted piles of crap over the last few months I came across a real treasure...
My Grandmother's hand written favorite recipes cookbook. I hadn't seen it for years, and I thought it had disappeared long ago.
It's a steno book that's just packed full of recipes that my grandmother collected, either from family or from things that she collected over the years.
And there are so many that I remember my grandmother making over the years... Shoofly cake, her cherry cake, and possibly the most important one of all... her drop dumplings, which she boiled in the sauerkraut.
Those dumplings were a staple of New Year's dinner at her house when I was growing up. My brother and I would have dumpling eating contests.
Grandma died in January 1980, so I've not had them in almost 40 years.
I'm slowly transcribing it over to a Word document, standardizing how the measures are displayed, the steps, etc.
Of all of the things that I've found since my Mom died, this one makes me the happiest.