Recipe Cards

 

This past weekend, Michael and I went to visit Dad and June.  We planned on going out to lunch but June would not be able to join us for that.  So, I decided to take dessert so we could share some food and visit after lunch.  I opted to make a strawberry cobbler.  It's delicious, easy to make and travels well.  I also had gotten some strawberries on sale, so this was perfect.  We all enjoyed the cobbler and June asked me for the recipe.

She always asks me to text the recipe to her, but I never do.  One, that takes so long for me to do LOL  and two, being the old fashioned soul that I am, I much prefer getting out a nice recipe card and writing it down.  I've learned that somehow my handwriting is better on a recipe card than it is when letter writing.  Who knew?  LOL  As I was writing out the card, I thought about the first time I received my very own recipe card.

It was some time in the early 80's....81 or 82.  We went to lunch after church at the home of Pat and Gene Herrell.  They were good friends of my parents and we all went to FBC together. For dessert, Pat served a pie she called "Fruit Fluff".  It's one of those wonderful cool whip pies with fruit in it.  I absolutely fell in love with the pie.  Pat offered to write out the recipe for me.  Mind you, I was only 7 or 8 at the time.  She wrote it out and gave it to me, but it was in cursive and I couldn't read it.  So, she very thoughtfully had her son type it out on a card for me so that I could read it.  And I still have that card in my recipe box.  I have made that pie hundreds of times and always love it.

There's just something very personal to me about sharing recipe cards like that.  Not only do you have a wonderful recipe in front of you but someone who cares about you took the time to write it down for you.  This seems to be a tradition that has gone by the wayside in these days of technology.  I get that.  But I cherish my handwritten recipe cards.  There is history there.

I would love to find some of my friends to exchange recipes with like that.  Just random recipes or requested ones.  I think that would be a wonderful way to connect with people.  By the way, the cards pictured above aren't mine.  But I have plenty if you want to exchange! Anyone interested?

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