Recipes Dear to My Heart

"Born in Des Moines, Iowa and being the oldest girl of six children, things
were not that easy for me growing up. I was a child that was interested
in anything that I could get my hands into. Grandmother kept house for
a gentleman that had seven kids of his own and when we got together
it was called the circus house. To help out in the kitchen for meals;
grandmother would let me pull a chair up to the stove next to her and
help cook. We had a lot of love for whatever each child wanted to do,
mine was cooking.
The recipes in this book are from the ti me as I grew up and when I was
next to the side of my grandmother. The cakes were from her mother’s
book and a few of them are from my mother’s childhood. I learned that
if you are happy with something you must share it and it will please the
other person trying it. Everything is worth trying once and if it’s good
then you have overcome a hurtle.
I have overcome a lot of hurtles in my life and wish to share these
recipes with you. I have never had any of my food returned to me or
turned down. I just never have made enough for friends or family to
eat. As they would say aft er eati ng their plates clean “where is the
food, we didn’t get any.”
I hope all of these fi nd joy for you as well as they did and sti ll do for me
and my family and friends that I sti ll cook for sti ll today. They may know
how to cook but they always come home to the one that does the best
job of all."