from Veronica

I would agree that Bets is an excellent cook, if she doesn’t say so herself, and I am not surprised that she has mastered kooka bread and spotsa. I was simply mad for Grandma’s cinnamon rolls (and still a weakness to this day) and asked if she would teach me. This was when I was a teenager. I wrote everything down, but I was so confused that one day I finally threw the recipe away. Any of you that helped Grandma in the kitchen may remember that she never followed a recipe. It was a little of this and a little of that and how do you write that down and remember next time?

However, I did get a recipe from a friend that reminds me very much of kooka and I make it now and then...usually around the holidays. I will say I have mastered cream puffs and I am very proud of that. (if I do say so myself :o)

Another cool thing I remember is staying at Grandma’s a week every summer. One time she made me some pajamas while I was there. She sewed like she cooked...without a pattern. She just would hold it up to me and figure it out. Amazing.