March 28 - Page through inherited cookbooks.

March 28 – Page through cookbooks you’ve inherited and ask your relatives to do the same. You might discover handwritten recipes and notes from Great-grandmother or Aunt Esther.

I went through my mother’s cookbook, which wasn’t the one I remember as a child. She used to have a Betty Crocker cookbook, hard cover and large size. But the one she used in her final years was a paperback version of the same cookbook. When she moved to a smaller house, she cleaned out her collection of cookbooks and downsized them. I purchased the paperback version shortly after I got married because I loved her cookbook and could not afford the big hard cover version. I purchased the hard cover version a few years ago, but find myself using the paperback version because it is so much easier. I will be taking my mother’s version to my 2^nd home to use. I know there are some handwritten pages in the book, but I haven’t investigated it. Now I am curious to see whose handwriting is on those pages but the book is packed and ready for the new 2^nd home. I won’t be able to look until June when I get to the house and unpack.

March 27 - Finding a realtive's diary

March 27 – A relative’s diary may be listed in bibliography of American Dairies by Laura Arksey, Nancy Pries, Marcia Reed and William Matthews (Gale Group, out of print). Check the FHL online catalog and historical societies, too.