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Here’s another recipe memoir. Lucinda was my grandmother’s grandmother, so her recipe for ginger cookies is probably the oldest family heirloom we have. I made these cookies one Thanksgiving. In spite of the fact that they are not as rich as the cookies we are used to eating today, the high school kids gobbled them up. Lucinda Frances (Locke) Mock lived from 1846 to 1940.

Lucinda Mock’s Ginger Cookie Recipe by Martha Jewett

Recipe memoirs are fun to share. I wrote one about my Grandmother Jewett and her Quick Chocolate Cookies. Grandmother Jewett used to pick up my cousins Clay and Kurt after school in Sonoita, AZ, in her Chevy Coupe, and take them to choir practice at the Patagonia Methodist Church, about 12 miles away. Grandmother Jewett was the church choir director and accompanist. The boys were allowed to each have just one cookie when they got off the bus. They always tried to pick the biggest one in the tin. The rest of the cookies were for the choir. I made the cookies for Clay and his partner, Joyce Bilodea, when they came to visit. Clay said they were true to the taste he remembered from childhood.

Take a look and get some ideas. Let me know how your recipe memoir works out.

Helen Jewett’s Quick Chocolate Cookies by Martha Jewett