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How I Solved My Recipe Crisis

September 7, 2016January 13, 2017 / megan sager / Leave a comment

  A slip of paper, “Peggy’s Chicken,” from early spring of 1995, landed on top of a faded index card detailing Great Grandma’s Taffy, circa 1950, on my wooden kitchen floor. I had accidentally knocked my recipe box off the counter as I made lunches for school. Thankfully the oak box remained intact unlike the … Continue reading How I Solved My Recipe Crisis

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