Make a recipe from someone who came before you

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Make a recipe from someone who came before you

The kitchen is where a family keeps its history without noticing.

Find the recipe, in a handwriting that is not yours, and cook it exactly as written even where it makes no sense.

Cook it with someone. Tell them whose it was and what the kitchen it came from looked like.

Then write your own version down in your own hand and put it somewhere findable.

Make a recipe from someone who came before you, 1
Date it.
Make a recipe from someone who came before you, 2
Do it.
Make a recipe from someone who came before you, 3
Done it.

How to actually do it

  1. 01Ask the family who has the recipe and get a photo of it.
  2. 02Cook it as written, with company.
  3. 03Write it out again in your handwriting for the next one along.

You already know if this is the one. Go put a date on it.

Date it in the app

Send it to whoever came to mind.