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Recipe-inspired Scrapbooks
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We chose an updated vintage look for
our holiday recipe scrapbook design.
We created both individual pages that fit
into a scrapbook and stand-alone
scrapbooking projects. For Senior Food
Editor Diana McMillen's scrapbook, we
used patterned paper and fabric paper,
dressed up with ribbon and buttons
sewn right to the page. (To save time,
glue the buttons to the pages.)
Fat Molasses Cookies
(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007)
Memories and family recipes go together like candy canes and cocoa. I can't think about holiday baking without remembering childhood visits to Nana and Pappy's house in northeast Indiana. I always watched Nana tie her apron over her blue housedress and bake her famous fruit pies, but I especially loved her cookies. They were soft and thick—sugar and spiced molasses were my favorites. I'd boost myself onto the counter to snag a couple from the yellow cookie jar. My mom, Frances Sechler, still makes the spiced molasses cookies (now adding candied ginger to the recipe).
This holiday season, several of our staff members combined their family recipes and the reflections they inspire on the scrapbook pages shown here. We hope they inspire you to create your own books of food memories.
DIANA MCMILLEN
