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Hi,

 

I'm so excited I can't contain myself. I visited an Aunt today following my uncle's death earlier this year and after much rummaging around she produced a small notebook for me and said she thought I should have it. My uncle had treasured it. It was some of my Grandma's recipes..!! I should explain...My grandma came from Gateshead, and sadly I never knew her, as she died when I was about 20 months old...(a very long time ago!!) Having also lost my mum more than 25 years ago I have been trying to research her family history, and had managed to trace my grandma's family back to about 1808. A couple of years ago my OH and I visited Gateshead to try and find some addresses etc and see if anything was still standing...Everything had been knocked down...not a single house left! :cry

I have not been able to trace any of my northern relatives. :(

 

I just can't tell you how lovely it was to receive this notebook of recipes, all handwritten ( a few even contain dried egg...it was the war!) . There is a recipe in there for Christmas Cake and I just can't wait to make it. This year might be the first year ever my Christmas Cake is ready well in advance of December!! And of course this year I'll be able to use my home grown free range eggs too :D

 

Sorry...crowing worse than my girls but I am just sooo happy....!!! Silly the little things that make us happy some times aren't they???

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Not silly at all, there is a special place in your heart that gets all warm and squishy when you find things like these it's a fantastic feeling, like coming home. How lovely for you - perhaps you should do a trial run on the cake - I'll volunteer to do some quality control testing for you :wink:

I bet the cake will be fab, even better knowing your Grandma wrote them in her book herself!

 

Great discovery, I love stuff like that, and I love handing it on, I think it's only as we get older that we appreciate the value of things like this :lol:

 

BeckyBoo

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Aww that reminds me of when my lovely Grandad died.Like many others that were 'in the war' he never talked about it.When he died my aunt found an old notebook..it turned out he was a cook in the Army,and the recipes were what he used.They were all things like stew and shepherds pie, but the quantites were like half a ton of potatoes and 2 cows!! :shock::lol:

Because we never knew what happened ,I have told my father to start writing his life story so that my children can have something to read through,'cos I dont think we appreciate our elders and their experiences until its too late, and we never have time to 'sit at grandmas knee' any more do we?

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Hi,

 

Thank you all for your lovely comments.. ...I will let you know how I get on with the recipes......I can see all my hard work trying to lose the Christmas excess going straight out the window now, no worrying about saturated fats in those days that's for sure!!!

 

Anyone for Bacon roly-poly? ( free range of course!)

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..lay a little egg for me Chatty Chicken

..lay a little egg for me

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No its lovely. I have my mums recipe book all hand written when she she was newly married in the 1960's. She even put the name of the person or place she got it from. Shes dead now so its a lovely reminder. I think we should keep these traditions alive.

 

Me too...as I have my own hand-written recipe book of recipes I have collected, some of which came from Mum, I have two copies of many recipes! Unfortunately, DS shows no sign of wanting to learn to cook (but he is only 10 so there is still hope) and as he is an only son, my book may never get passed on :cry:

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