I was so distraught, I could not find a recipe

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3. Yay! That is good news!

We had something similar happen a few years ago. My daughter, who is our pie-baker, had somehow misplaced my grandmother's recipe for pecan pie. This was not like other pecan pie recipes. It was the best ever pecan pie recipe and a family tradition. We ransacked the house trying to find it with no luck.

In the past, I could have just called Mom and she would have given it to me again. But Mom is gone now, and I did not have her recipes nor Grandma's. Finally, after begging my only sibling to take a look again at what he had that was Mom's, a package arrived in the mail containing two old and stuffed-very-full recipe boxes. One was Mom's and one was Grandma's.

We scoured them both looking for it. It wasn't in Mom's recipes, and we were down to the last stack of recipes from Grandma's recipe box.

Then we came upon a fragile, folded piece of paper. When unfolded, we saw a recipe faintly handwritten in a style that I did not recognize as Grandma's. It wasn't. It was her sister's handwriting. Grandma had a habit of dating everything for future reference and when we looked on the back of the folded recipe, we saw she had dated it: 1924.

Oh my! So, we have the original that Grandma's sister had given to her almost a hundred years ago! Wow!

I want to preserve it somehow, so am looking at how best to do that. But how cool is that?! Thank you, Grandma. 😊