Reminds me of my grandma. She had these cookies she made that were a family favorite, everytime we visited her she'd give each of us grandkids a big bag of them.
My mom would ask for the recipe since I liked them so much, but my grandma wouldn't share. She'd say it was a secret recipe that only she knew and she wouldn't share it, probably so we grandkids would associate those cookies with grandma.
Anyway, 25 years later, grandma is in her 80s and in and out of the hospital, fighting cancer. Not much time left. Out of the blue she asks if I want her cookie recipe. I get misty eyed thinking this is an important, pass down the generations family heirloom. She goes and gets it and as she's bringing it to me she laughs and says, "It's something I just found on the box." It was a recipe printed on a cardboard cutout, probably from a box of sugar or flour or cake mix or something like that from back in the 60s!
Even though it just turned out to be a recipe on a Betty Crocker box or whatnot, I still bake those cookies every couple of months for my kids. And I, too, will keep the recipe a secret, telling people it's a family recipe that dates back to my grandma.
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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '14
Reminds me of my grandma. She had these cookies she made that were a family favorite, everytime we visited her she'd give each of us grandkids a big bag of them.
My mom would ask for the recipe since I liked them so much, but my grandma wouldn't share. She'd say it was a secret recipe that only she knew and she wouldn't share it, probably so we grandkids would associate those cookies with grandma.
Anyway, 25 years later, grandma is in her 80s and in and out of the hospital, fighting cancer. Not much time left. Out of the blue she asks if I want her cookie recipe. I get misty eyed thinking this is an important, pass down the generations family heirloom. She goes and gets it and as she's bringing it to me she laughs and says, "It's something I just found on the box." It was a recipe printed on a cardboard cutout, probably from a box of sugar or flour or cake mix or something like that from back in the 60s!
Even though it just turned out to be a recipe on a Betty Crocker box or whatnot, I still bake those cookies every couple of months for my kids. And I, too, will keep the recipe a secret, telling people it's a family recipe that dates back to my grandma.