Last year about this time, a young neighbor came to my door and asked if she could have one of my potluck recipes for a cookbook she was making for her classmates. She was a senior, and thought it would be fun to create a class cookbook that could be useful in the future, as well as something all her friends in high school could use to write their fond farewells.

She thought having a class cookbook would make a memorable memento of her last days in high school.

In my day, your good friends wrote on the pages of your high school yearbook. I don’t know what kids do now, but back then your “status” was made by how many people signed your yearbook. Whole pages were “saved” for those special friends to write some poignant and memorable memento that would endure a lifetime.

My neighbor planned to get recipes from each of her friends and include them in her class cookbook. She needed a few other good, sensible recipes to round out the selections and categories, so she was asking for recipes from people she felt had good taste. (Flattering to be included in that category.) Most of the recipes she already had for her class cookbook were not fancy or expensive, and they bordered on really good, quick college dorm fare. A memorable memento indeed.

I made a few suggestions on how to organize the class cookbook, such as adding some photos and information about her friends. Then I gave her a few good recipes, and off she went to finish her memorable memento class cookbook of her last days in high school. She said she was doing it all in Word, and she planned to make copies of the class cookbook for every friend who wanted one.

Oh my.

I just couldn’t help myself; I gave her a copy of Matilda’s Fantastic Cookbook Software as an early graduation present.

Happy Cookbooking,

Matilda

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