| Irene Brown BridgesImperial Sugar Company, My family kitchen was always the busiest room in our home. The wonderful smells of baking are embedded in my memory. I remember my mother, letting me stand in a chair pulle... |
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| Liz BImperial Sugar Company, We have a Super Bowl party every year and the appetizer that always goes over the best are the Mexican Pinwheels . You will need a package of 10 soft taco shells, 2 - 8-oun... |
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| F. Moses StirewaltImperial Sugar Company, I am writing to share my personal experience with Dixie Crystals Granulated Sugar. My family had made " Butter Cream Mints " for over 100 years. Fortunately, I learned to... |
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| Heather McIntyre Greetings! I just came from the store, where I needed three cups of dark brown sugar. You cannot imagine my JOY when I spied the wonderful new 1-cup pre-measured containers of dark brown sugar!!!... |
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| Cindy PaxtonImperial Sugar Company, I am now 49 years old and I still love the recipe for "Circus Cookies"! When I was about 5 my mom ordered the "My First Cookbook" from Imperial Sugar. The first thing my si... |
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| AngieDear Imperial Sugar Company, My memories of learning to cook include using my Easy Bake Oven to bake cakes and slicing it up for my family. My dad always made a big deal over his little slice. My... |
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| Ann WarnerImperial Sugar Company, In the 1950s, I watched my mother cook everything from scratch. I especially remember our favorite recipes but like so many recipes back then, they were never written down.... |
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| Annie CaldwellImperial Sugar Company, I was born in 1940, have sugar rations from World War II and I have memories of my mother talking about sugar being rationed. When I was about 10, my mother ordered me a We... |
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| Betty HancockImperial Sugar Company, My mom started teaching me to cook when I was 13 years old. My husband and I will celebrate our 50th anniversary on November 24, 2005. He always told everyone he married me... |
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| Beverly MurphreeImperial Sugar Company, So many sweet memories from my childhood fill my mind as I write. I can see my great-grandmother, Little Grandma Cox, rolling and cutting out Tea Cakes. Her Tea Cakes were a... |
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| Brenda C. MillerImperial Sugar Company, My mom let me help her cook when I was a little girl. When I was about 12 or 13 years old she let me in the kitchen alone to cook and bake treats for our family. They were... |
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| Carol L. SteinhoffImperial Sugar Company, Some of my fondest times center around my family’s love affair with sugar: I remember being allowed to sprinkle the colored sugar on the Christmas tree and bells butter cook... |
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| Carolyn De RowenImperial Sugar Company, When I was young, we ate basic foods that were good for you and my mother graduated from college with a degree in Home Economics. My mother let us make the desserts when we... |
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| Claire BroeringImperial Sugar Company, I had to laugh when I saw the article in the Baton Rouge paper about “My First Cookbook.” I still have my original cookbook from 1959. My mother passed the cookbook on to m... |
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| Cynthia D. DavisImperial Sugar Company, When I saw your address in the Baton Rouge Advocate food section, I could not wait to write. I have one sister who was the talented cook. I was the challenged one. I rememb... |
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| Cynthia NelsonImperial Sugar Company, Appropriately, I learned how to cook mostly from cookbooks! My mother worked; my older sister was the main person in the kitchen when my mother was home, and I spent most of... |
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| Dana TerritoImperial Sugar Company, My mother saved Imperial Sugar logos to obtain “My First Cookbook” for me. I remember receiving it in the mail and being so proud the cookbook was just mine. I also remembe... |
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| Donna ThomasImperial Sugar Company, I was in the first grade when My First Cookbook made its debut. I remember sending off for my very own copy and watching the mail everyday to see if it had come. When it fi... |
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| Felicia PoettgenDear Imperial Sugar Folks, As a very small child, baking Christmas cookies was my very favorite activity. I looked forward to the holidays so I could help my mother bake. Although she was a good c... |
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| Gayle K. GarrisonImperial Sugar Company, The smell of chocolate chip cookies baking brings back the memory of the little kitchen in our modest frame home. The kitchen was so small, so we had an apartment size gas... |
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| Helen A. EppersonImperial Sugar Company, “My First Cookbook,” was received for Christmas along with many other gifts. Helen A. Epperson... |
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| Jana FergusonImperial Sugar Company, My early memories are of baking cookies with my mother and older sister. This was way before the days of refrigerator dough that you slice and bake! I remember measuring th... |
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| Jane SquiresImperial Sugar Company, My memories of learning to cook started with learning from my dad. He cooked from scratch and I’ve learned so much from him. However, I never wrote his recipes down so afte... |
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| Jean MauneyImperial Sugar Company, Good food has been a part of my life since childhood and learning to cook was just a “given.” As a new bride, I wanted to prepare healthy and attractive meals and learn to... |
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| Jennifer Evans MistrettaImperial Sugar Company, As a child, the first things I learned to cook were Mama’s Chocolate Chip Cookies and Spiced Oatmeal Cookies. I still use the same recipes. Mama would help as much as neces... |
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| Joyce HogeImperial Sugar Company, My memories of learning to cook are many but foremost in my mind is the summer I joined 4H and learned to bake. Now I can’t imagine how our leader, a caring woman in the ne... |
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| June ShewmakerDear Imperial Sugar Company, My memories of learning to cook: I was about 10 years old and I made cookies with my mother. We made Old Fashioned Tea Cakes and that was in 1949. I had many more wond... |
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| Kathy BraggImperial Sugar Company, I took a Home Ec class in 1971. I still have the cookbook and have collected them ever since. I also still use many of the recipes that I learned then. My poor parents were... |
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| Kim NapierImperial Sugar Company, I really do not remember a time when I did not know how to cook. I was taught by a wonderful, Southern grandmother. She would get the recipe book out for me to look at, but... |
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| Laura LopezImperial Sugar Company, My grandmother and I used to bake using Imperial Sugar Company’s sugar on so many occasions. My grandfather actually took me on a trip to Sugar Land, TX, to visit the plant.... |
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| Linda CummingsImperial Sugar Company, I have a cookbook collection dating from the early 1900s. I cannot remember a time that I wasn’t in the kitchen begging to help. Actually, I thought I could do it all and pr... |
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| Linda SpringwaterImperial Sugar Company, My memories of Imperial Sugar do not come from actually learning to cook but from a visit to the Imperial Sugar Plant. As a young girl, I visited the facility in Sugar Land... |
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| Lois G. JohnsonImperial Sugar Company, As I think back on my first cooking experiences I remember helping with preparing evening meals with my mother directing the processes. I also remember the special foods my... |
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| Lori DemoorImperial Sugar Company, I remember watching my mother cook amazing things for her catering business. Then when she wasn’t looking, I would recreate her masterpieces with marshmallows while starrin... |
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| Lucy StatonImperial Sugar Company, I was born in 1922, in rural Arkansas. We had no electricity until 1938 and no gas service. Our cooking was done on a wood cookstove. I not only had to learn to cook the fo... |
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| Lynette WhitlockImperial Sugar Company, As is true of many things, cooking is best learned through experience. I remember the time my friend Nicole and I decided to make chocolate - peanut butter no-bake cookies.... |
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| Mae C. ThaggardImperial Sugar Company, Well, here’s what I remember about learning to cook. It was back in 1941 and there were 3 younger children at home. Mother was sick so I had to cook. Dad was helping at the... |
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| Marjorie AndersImperial Sugar Company, I learned to cook in beginning home economics in the 9th grade in Corpus Christi, TX. Everything we did in school came home for a trial on my poor family who were good spor... |
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| Mary A. RainesImperial Sugar Company, I had always wanted to learn how to cook while I was growing up but my mother did not want us in the kitchen making a mess. The first elective course I signed up to take in... |
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| Mary FreymuthImperial Sugar Company, This is a cooking memory of mine from the early 50’s, cooking with my grandmother: Thumbing through Grandma’s old cookbooks, now worn and well cherished, I recall fond memo... |
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| Mary K. HughesImperial Sugar Company, I remember the wonderful drawings and the easy explanation of the dishes to be prepared. I felt quite grown-up being able to prepare a recipe by myself and having my family... |
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| Mrs. Joseph SalemaImperial Sugar Company, I remember making press cookies under my mother’s watchful eye many years ago. They’re still a favorite at 70. When I married, I followed cookbook instructions faithfully e... |
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| Nancy BonnerImperial Sugar Company, When I got married in 1959, I didn’t know much about cooking. (I was only 15.) When my husband would come home after a 10-hour day in road construction - tired, dirty and h... |
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| Nelda S. StroderImperial Sugar Company, I do not have the “My First Cookbook” from 1959 - but I do have several of Imperial Sugar’s cookbooks. I grew up in the country, without a lot of money and free cookbooks th... |
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| Pam McKeeImperial Sugar Company, I grew up in Lake Jackson, TX, and remember when my mother got the original cookbook for me. I loved it! The recipes always looked so cute when they were finished and I was... |
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| Pat HardinImperial Sugar Company, My daughter first learned to cook using her copy of “My First Cookbook.” She was 11 and she wanted to make cookies and candy. She has her cookbook displayed on a holder and... |
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| Patricia HighsmithImperial Sugar Company, As a child, my mom didn’t have the patience to teach me to cook but she did buy me the “Betty Crocker Kids Cookbook” and would let me try my first recipes on my own after d... |
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| Paula HudsonImperial Sugar Company, As I think back through my cooking memories, I remember I have had many generations of family members with their “tried and true favorites” to guide me. This important tradi... |
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| Peggy SmithImperial Sugar Company, When I was a little girl, I always wanted to cook but my brother always got to because he was older. So I was so proud when Santa left me a cookbook of my own! I used it of... |
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| Peggy Willis MurphyImperial Sugar Company, I am a 58-year-old retired high school teacher and grandmother of one little girl. I decided in February to organize my recipes and cookbooks. It took me half way through M... |
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| Raina LenneyImperial Sugar Company, My memories of learning to cook always involved something delicious. Although I love to cook all kinds of food now, the only things I wanted to cook as a child were sweet th... |
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| Rita BlackImperial Sugar Company, Here is my best memory of learning to cook. When I was married, my husband requested Chicken Stew. Never having had Chicken Stew, I began making what I remembered seeing my... |
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| Robert R. TaylorImperial Sugar Company, My own first memory of learning to cook is based on the experience of cooking with my grandfather who was a railroad chef. Every Sunday morning we would get up and make bre... |
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| Sandy RolandDear Imperial Sugar Company, I don’t remember cooking with my mother until I was a teenager. She would tell me what and how to start cooking for dinner. But let me tell you about my grandkids… T... |
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| Sharon GatesImperial Sugar Company, My first memory of cooking was when I was about 11. My mom worked and I was an only child so I spent most of my days entertaining myself. Mom worked for a really sweet elde... |
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| Sharon S. StewartImperial Sugar Company, I grew up on a farm and we did our canning on a wood cook stove in the milk house! We cooked for the men who helped in the hay fields. Every day we cooked from scratch. We... |
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| Shelia Conn PrichardImperial Sugar Company, Both my grandmothers, my mom and aunt were wonderful cooks so any occasion that involved getting the families together was a learning experience. I remember going to one gr... |
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| Teresa E. SaundersImperial Sugar Company, Memories of Learning to Cook Finding interesting recipes, such as garlic logs and popovers, in my American Girl Cookbook, that was given to me at Christmas, 1967. (I sti... |
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| Theresa GermanImperial Sugar Company, I grew up in a large family of 7 siblings and my mama and daddy, on a small 30 acre farm in Baton Rouge, LA. My mama never bought pre-made goodies. But by the time that I wa... |
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| Veronica LadnerImperial Sugar Company, I grew up in Baton Rouge, LA, in the 1960s and my favorite memories were of my mother baking a cake every Saturday afternoon. Sometimes she baked from scratch but often she... |
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| Vivian M. HutiraImperial Sugar Company, I believe I was about 8 years old. My mom had a phobia that you must use a wooden spoon to cream butter, margarine and the sugar. Well my arms would tire pretty easily and... |
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| Illa ChisholmDear Imperial Sugar Co., I had the 1959 books for my two girls. My girls gave theirs to my two granddaughters, as this was a great tradition. Sincerely, Illa Chisholm... |
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| Judy JonesImperial Sugar Company, I began cooking when I was 12 because my mother was expecting a baby and needed help in the kitchen and with household chores. I went on to major in Home Economics and taug... |
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