Klotz Family RecipesKlotz Family RecipesBegun in honor of the 90th birthday of Grace Averil Klotz, May 12, 2020
Grace Hyler, 1949. This portrait was a Christmas present to Carl Klotz, with the note "Someday I'll come in person to stay."
This project began when my mother (Grace Klotz) gave me a recipe book that belonged to her Aunt Averil Adams. In 2001, I printed a book of those recipes for my nieces and nephews. Then in 2013, I transcribed recipes in my mother's box. That was the basis for this website, although it took me until 2020 to actually get it online. In the meantime, my father's sister Aunt Sue (Vanita Hicks) gave me a folder of some family recipes and Mom gave me another recipe box. She might have told me who it came from, but I forgot, and when I asked her, she didn't remember either. In addition, after Mom's death and as Aunt Sue was passing things on to the next generations, I wound up with a disorganized wealth of family papers and pictures. In 2024 I undertook a major revision and expansion into four main sections:
Family Memories Who are all these people? Bits of family history, memoirs and photos.
Important points and cautions are marked with a dancing star
The contents of each section are in a navigation bar on the left of pages in the section.
Mystery Box: These are recipes from the Jeff's family, most likely Aunt Averil. I don't intend to transcribe the whole box, but I've added some relevant ones to Averil's section.
Jill's research: I've looked up some things that puzzled me and I've added some of my own recipes or adaptations where it seemed relevant. My notes are either in italics or marked with a dragon's head icon.
Carol's Boxes: Carol has Mom's and (I think) Gramma Moore's boxes. We went through them in September 2024, and I scanned a number of recipes that seemed to belong with Grace's box. I've added in Carol's comments. She has also developed a number of her own recipes, but those are another project.
Hal's Cooking: When I was working full-time, Hal pretty much took over the kitchen. A few of his adaptions show up here.
Most of the recipes are in the section they came from, but there were so many from Grace's box that I put some of them with related recipes in other sections. When a recipe is out of its original section, or when it comes from an additional source, I mark it with the appropriate icon.
This is probably as far as I will go with historical recipes. There's still some work to do with the other family history, but I'm not sure what form that will take. Likely there will be more added to the Family Memories/History section.
Mostly now I am hoping to pass things on. Along with the things I'm posting in the Facebook group, I plan to add to this site a page of treasures looking for good homes.
I hope you have as much fun poking through the recipes as I did putting them together.
Jill Keen
October, 2024
Any family member or friend who wants to add comments, recipes, or pictures—or who is willing to adopt some treasures!—please
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First published 12 May 2020. Last revised, November 2024
