My Grandmother's Recipe Box

Well it's a new year and I need a new challenge and I've been sitting at the computer all day trying to brainstorm what could be my next big cooking project.  I've also been trying to rearrange my pantry today and while I was digging around on the top shelf among my cookbooks I spotted my grandmother's recipe box. I started to look through it and realized that it was full of old recipes collected over the years from magazines, books, church friends and relatives and some of these recipes are from as far back as the 1920s.  I decided I had to share them on ChewIt ReviewIt so I hope you will enjoy them as much as I will enjoy exploring her little tin box.

Who was Eula?  My grandmother passed away suddenly back in 1991 at the age of 84.  She was the most angelic like person I have ever known.  She was a Sunday school teacher, an antique dealer and an artist.  She, at the request of my grand daddy, would cook for a group of hungry hunters just getting in at 1:00 in the morning from a hunting trip and still deliver the Lord's word at Sunday school the next day.  She enjoyed the outdoors and hunting trips to Colorado with my grand daddy.  The outdoors and roughing it didn't bother her a bit and she was always in style with the latest spring and fall fashions.  She could cook up a mess of chicken fried venison like no body's business.  (So I've heard)  Oh yes, and you had to call her "Grandmother".  Nothing else was acceptable and nothing else seemed appropriate for such a wonderful, loving lady like her. My cousins called her Aunt Pete which I find funny being that her name is Eula Lavada Brown Moody! She enjoyed cooking and pies and sweets were her specialty.  Most of the time she had something sweet for her dinner instead of a meal.

How I came to own the little recipe box:  She had moved to Amarillo to live with my aunt a few years before she passed away and then not long after that my aunt moved to the hill country.  After my aunt passed away my mother and sister and I were at my aunt's house collecting family treasures and I happen to spot my grandmother's little tin recipe box sitting on my aunt's kitchen counter.  I quickly latched onto it before my mother or sister spotted it and felt as if I had found a pot of gold!  Inside this little tin box was some of my grandmother's culinary secrets that I am now passing on to you.  I miss her so very much but I know that I will feel close to her as I explore each recipe.

Now I know I said in an earlier post that I needed to focus more on healthy recipes to help me achieve my "Look Too Good To Be 50" goal for this year so most of these recipes that I'll be trying will have to be eaten in moderation.  Most of them are sweets and I'm sure high in sugar but my grandmother was a very slim and trim lady so I figure if she can eat cake for dinner and stay thin maybe it will work for me to!  Ha!