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Showerthought: my grandma's 1953 recipe box had a note that made me rethink how I sort her old letters
I inherited my grandma's recipe box from her house in Akron and spent a rainy Sunday going through all 60 index cards. Halfway in I found a card where she'd crossed out 'bake 45 min' and written 'no, 38, trust me' in red pencil. My aunt saw me reading it and said grandma always told her the box was her real diary, not the shoebox of letters in the closet. So I stopped sorting the letters by date and started reading them looking for food mentions, and suddenly the 1957 ones about my grandpa's job made way more sense. Has anyone else found a relative's everyday object that told you more than their actual letters did?
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the_sarah28d ago
Whoa, "no, 38, trust me" in red pencil? That gave me chills. The idea that she was talking back to her own recipe card like it was a person is wild. And your aunt just casually dropping that the recipe box was her real diary is such a huge thing to say in passing. It makes me wonder how many families have stuff like that sitting in a kitchen drawer and nobody ever looks. The food thing making the job letters click makes total sense too, like she was only writing the real stuff when there was a meal attached to it.
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