This box contains all the wonderful recipes that you loved as a kid growing up in the Rinehart house. No doubt some were not favorites, but each of you enjoyed at least one. Now you will have them documented.

Everyone in the family cooks. This all started when you grew tall enough to stand on the stool and worked in the kitchen. Dad started cooking when he attended college and mom learned to cook from her mother as a child.

Mom's third cousin Carolyn received a copy of "The Key to Good Cooking" compiled by The Ladies Aid of Black Diamond, Washington from the Black Diamond Historical Society published in early 1900. So before we get to the recipes we love let's start out with the recipes by your great-grandmother as they appeared in "The Key to Good Cooking".

ONE EGG CAKE

1/2 cup butter; 1 cup sugar; 1 egg; 2 cups flour; 1 cup sweet milk; 3 teaspoons baking powder. Mix as directed and bake in hot oven.

MAPLE FROSTING

1 cup maple sugar; 1 cup boiling water; 1 egg white; 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar. Boil sugar, water, and cream of tartar until thread formed. Pour onto the beaten whites and continue beating until of consistency to spread.

Florence Bussey, your great-grandmother (Florence Bussey Carson) published these two recipes as written in "The Key to Good Cooking". The recipes look interesting, but do not conform to today's cooking. Let's give it a try and see if we can add to the recipes to make delicious food.