Back in March I helped my parents clean out the garage. We ended up finding a small metal tin full of recipe cards. They belonged to my paternal grandmother Marie, who passed away when my father was only 12 years old. It came with us from Wisconsin in the mid nineties when we cleaned out my grandfather’s house and sat in the garage for 25 years. It looked like it had barely been touched since the 1950’s. It was still organized in alphabetical order and most cards were in her handwriting.
I took photographs of a few of the recipes and I decided to make her macaroni and cheese with chocolate cake over the Christmas holiday.
The cake recipes were separate from the frosting recipes so I just guessed at which two may go well together. The frosting came out runny mostly due to my cooking it on a high temp too long (I tried to compensate with a dusting of sprinkles). But it had a pretty color and it tasted good.
Overall, it turned out well and my father said “it brought back a lot of memories”.
