There were three hours before her dinner guests came and she was going to make them a home cooked meal or die trying.

“Alright, let’s get to cooking!” she declared. Every blank page in the back had been filled with original recipes as well as every inch of margin, either adding to or correcting what had bee n printed.įinding the page she desired, Helena slapped her hands together. The cookbook may have started out as a church creation from the 1930s, complete with the cheap black spiral binding and laminated cover, but now it was a unique thing in its own right. But this was all that remained of that lost legacy. The old woman should have been a famous chef she was such a genius in the kitchen. Turning the pages of the old musty book, she slid her fingers past the printed text to touch on her grandmother’s scrawled handwriting in the margins. This was a precious piece of her beloved Nana, and she deserved it as much a s anyone.

This hadn’t been about ability or who had the actual skills to cook or not. Her cousin had wanted the precious heirloom so badly, but Helena had prevailed. Helena smiled smugly as she flipped through her grandmother’s cookbook, surrounded by the smells of ginger and cinnamon from her freshly bought supplies.

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