Posted on 2025-01-07

January 1, 1997

Dear Family,

This cookbook was done as a labor of love. My two oldest daughters have grown up and left home. It was a great compliment to me that they would call home and request a recipe for something I cook. When Sarah said, "I wish you would just write them down and send them to me", I decided to start this project.

In this book you will find recipies not only from me but from many members of our combined family. A family's history is made up of a lot of different elements but one of these that endures is the food that we enjoyed with each other. Please help make this an ongoing family project and send recipies from your files and from your parents, grandparents, etc. Send stories about the food, the people who cooked it, and the time of fellowship where families gathered together to share it's nourishment.

Vivian Heyl