Family Mellmann

These gloomy winter/spring days are perfect for projects like my recipes-to-computer exercise.  I'm all out of teacups from my grandmother's collection (I only have a few cups from her), but this one is fun.  It's the only (or one of the only) cup and saucer sets (that I know of) from a set of china that belonged to my great great grandmother.  The pattern was held in a factory in Germany.  That factory was destroyed during World War II, and with it went the pattern for this china. Well, I'm nowhere near finished with my project.  Scanning the recipes and hacking them into my recipe software takes time.  But I'm seeing some interesting trends as I go through these cards.  I have seen recipes dating back to the mid 1940s, the 1990s, and everything in between.  But even without the dates written on the cards, it isn't too hard to tell which era the recipe is from. Recipes from the 40s and 50s mostly include whole/real foods , recipes are

Well, this is the last teacup from my grandmother’s collection of teacups. I still have several recipes to go I'm not quite half way through the cards), but I’m getting closer. Deciphering hand writing, interpreting ingredients (some of the things that they used in the 50s are no longer available), and scanning the recipes for photos definitely takes time. I did find the non-dessert section finally, and right now I am entering my third recipe for “Chicken Supreme”.  Perhaps “duplicates” is a good defense for computerizing.

A while ago the recipe box, with my grandmother's recipes, was dropped and the recipes were scattered.  When I put them back in the box they were not in any particular order.  I figured when I computerized each one it would be categorized as I went along.  It appears that I have hit a clump of recipes from the dessert section...ALL the recipes for the past couple of days have been sweets. I'm hoping I find some not-sweets recipes further down the pile or this is going to be a very lopsided cookbook.

We were invited to the "sweet 16" birthday party of Patrick's girlfriend.  It was a surprise party including family and friends, food, games, music, and laughter.  It was a lovely evening celebrating a lovely lady. Limbo!  Can you remember the last time (or the first) that you ever did the limbo?  Patrick and Elizabeth are awesome at it! I have it on good authority that the balloons were not coordinated with Elizabeth's dress.  What a lucky stroke of color!