When I was 20 I was given some new cookbooks and I found that they had great ideas, but often said things like “open a jar and add….”  I wanted to actually cook, not open a jar, where were the recipes!  I remembered the great sweet and sour sauce that my mom made when my brother and I were kids, I could drink that stuff.  I wanted to make things like that. So I asked my mom and she said the recipe had com from the “Old Better Homes and Garden New Cookbook” and I went on a sea

When I was 20 I was given some new cookbooks and I found that they had great ideas, but often said things like “open a jar and add….”  I wanted to actually cook, not open a jar, where were the recipes!  I remembered the great sweet and sour sauce that my mom made when my brother and I were kids, I could drink that stuff.  I wanted to make things like that. So I asked my mom and she said the recipe had com from the “Old Better Homes and Garden New Cookbook” and I went on a sea