Mom’s Recipe Box

My sister, who posts here as Kat (albeit without bothering to tell me she was doing so and then going all “well, duh” on me when I asked her who she commented as, even though I never knew her as Kat, a nickname she picked up after leaving home, and dont’ think of her that way) has started putting recipes from my mom’s (and grandma’s) recipe box online.

Here is the blog. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom, you’ll see my mother’s 8th-grade photo.

I’d like to put out a request to Kat to post Mom’s engagement/college photo. And to have a copy made for me, since I don’t have a copy of that one. Or, frankly, any photo of her other than the early-70s family photo.

I can vouch for the chocolate cake, brownie and banana cake recipes, as well as the home ec coffee cake, which both Kat and I made in Mrs. Volpe’s class (though she got married partway through our home ec career in middle school which lasted 4 years, and neither of us can remember her maiden name). Kat is digging for Grandma’s chocolate mint fudge icing recipe, which usually went with the 20-pound chocolate cake.

The Wetback Delite, aside from having a vile name that nobody thought was vile during the 70s, made me vomit the first time I ate it and put me off ranch dressing pretty much forever. I think I may have had it with milk, which only made things worse.

So send a little traffic Kat’s way and make a few of Grandma’s/Mom’s recipes. And then wander over to her knitting/nephew (well, my nephews, her sons) blog, Krazy Kat Knits.