To the statement at the end below: my feeling is why bother to even
post that, as such statements are so frustrating to many of us. But I
hope you will continue the tradition ( pass on recipe ) in your
family! It's nice to pass down family traditions.
As another poster wrote about lost recipes: I too, know many
families whose relatives took their recipes to the grave and their
families have only fond memories but not the recipe to carry on a
family tradition.
We had an Aunt who made the most phenomenal home made cherry strudel
for the holidays. Mom could never get the dough recipe right.
I remember my mother trying to replicate it dozens of times and it
never came out the same. The aunt give bits and pieces of advice to
mom on how to improve it but it was just never the correct recipe! I
remember my mom saying to us how ugly and selfish this was on her
aunt's part. It seemed like the aunt got pleasure from my mom's
frustration and not getting the recipe right!
Anyway, my mom never did get the correct recipe and her aunt died
along with her cherry cream cheese strudel recipe .
So sometimes I think to myself, how silly and sad that was all
because of a recipe!
Happy Holidays to all
Joan
>While I am not willing to part with all of my secrets for an
>authentic German Christstollen