My Mother, her older sister and parents lived outside of Pittsburgh, PA. As the story goes……… Her mother went to Pittsburgh for important business and shopping. {i never knew what the important business was} The sisters {in their early teens} were bored. They did chores, read, sewed on projects and this is how my mother told the story:

“During the day, after all the chores were done, I remembered seeing a recipe in the newspaper. It was for a simple pound cake. While Sis {that is what she called her sister} made dinner, I made dessert. We did this to surprise Mother and she WAS surprised.”

Back to today……We grew up enjoying this pound cake but I must have been 30 years old when Mother gave me the recipe. She gave me the recipe, written in my Grandmothers handwriting from years earlier. Larry had it framed for me. It is a treasure indeed.

Yesterday, all I wanted to do was bake Mothers pound cake. Using the cast iron loaf pan that my cousin Pamela sent me, the pound cake turned out beautifully, decorated it with home made butter cream icing. Larry and I made strawberry shortcake with the pound cake. It is a treasure indeed.

Old family stories, old family recipes….treasures

Love you beyond the moon,

Me