[Sca-cooks] Fruitcakes

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Elaine Koogler <ekoogler1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> What a wonderful tradition and memory!  I know you must treasure it.  I 
> treasure the recipes that I have from my mother and grandmother...and 
> they all sort of mean "Christmas" to me.  It's a marvelous time of the 
> year, and I guess I'm so sentimental about it because I grew up with 
> family traditions that made it extra-special.  One of the major regrets 
> that I have about not having any children is that I have no one to pass 
> these traditions on to.
> 
> Kiri


Pass them on, then, to close friends.   I grew up in a kind of 'disjointed' family, where
'tradition' almost sounded like a requirement, and was therefore immediately ignored.  And, while
my immediate family (son, brother and sisters, mother, aunt and cousin) did have enjoyable
Holidays together, it was our combined 'Circle of Friends' who made these days spectacular.  Now
that we have all 'grown up', and my mother has passed away, it is those friends who keep coming
back asking 'are you going to make this-or-that this year?'  Last year, I began my
"neo-traditional Christmas Swa-Ray", which was very well recieved.  And, from this, many
traditions will certainly grow, and old ones (from many different families) will be intermixed.

William de Grandfort

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She was freezer burn...... all else is only icing.


		
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