Have you ever wanted to travel back in time to see how life was in ages past? How about traveling forward in time?  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could press a button and be able to time travel at will?  Well, what if you could turn a page in your family cookbook instead?

In your family cookbook, you might see your great grandmother’s photo and her recipe for blueberry pie right next to cousin Adela’s avant garde secret recipe for blueberry-strawberry extract that is destined to become a mainstream nutritional supplement in 20 years.

In your family cookbook, you might see a personal collection of recipes that were saved when a family member wrote them down on paper instead of using the tried and true “show-and-tell-method” to pass along cooking wisdom and family cooking secrets. 

In your family cookbook, you might also find stories about your family that you never imagined, like the time Uncle Arthur ran away to the circus and married a chimpanzee (or so the story goes). Or, you might find the story about little Jimmie who dreams of finding a solution to harnessing the energy of nuclear waste.

A family cookbook is a time capsule of the present captured on paper (or CD) for generations today and in the future to enjoy the fruits of their ancestors’ past. A family cookbook truly is one of the few things that spans the past, present and future all at once. Make them; cherish them; use them.

Happy family cookbooking,

Matilda

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