My mom was a wonderful cook and many of our standards we just learned no recipes used. However she loved trying new foods so she exchanged recipe cards with friends and family, bought magazines (tastes of home comes to mind) and loved the cookbooks that were created as fund raisers by non profit groups. Her group of ladies LAFRA did a few of them over the years and she had some of her best recipes in them.

I have 2 of the LAFRA books one of them was the prototype it has all the corrections and notes made in it before it was retyped and then printed that one is my favorite. I also have a recipe box that has the hand written cards she collected over the years. You can totally tell the go to recipes they are greases spattered and have notes added to them like, didn't have x used y it was good, or add z for a kick. Those are by far my favorites.

Auroa, I have to ask and please no judgment from me I am just asking because you are the rare person to admitting to not sharing certain recipes most people that don't want to share just avoid it or tell story's till the asker gives up. The questions why do you not share them? and I do not mean on line or with the masses but with friends or family?

My mom does everything by rote, so there's no looking to find favorite recipes. When I was first married and asked how to make meatloaf, she told me to buy some hamburger, then chop up all the leftovers in the fridge, put that with the hamburger and bake it. I dissolved into tears as this was to be a first dinner for my in-laws and it was what they requested!!

My grandmother wrote out her pumpkin pie and dill pickle recipe for me. How I love seeing her handwriting! She also gave me her HS domestic arts book. It's falling apart, but she wrote recipes on the blank pages in there that folks gave her. Their names are beside the recipe and I remember a few of those folks.

Can I respectfully ask why you won't share some of your recipes? I could never understand that.

We have worlds of commercially produced cookbooks--the stash is already promised to my youngest granddaughter when she has room for it--but years ago, when computers were new, we produced The Fowler Family Cook Book. It contains favorites from family members who may have cadged the recipes from newspapers or magazines and then made variations, or who made up recipes from scratch. Mama's recipes, written in her own flawless Spencerian script, are in her wooden recipe box and in two metal boxes. Those boxes are priceless. They are the reason that I write all my quilt labels in my own hand. froggyintexas

Yep! Same for me.

I remember Grandma's recipes cards that she used never made it in the box- just inside the door of the spice cupboard.

Wish I had her Sour Cream Raison Pie Recipe. I would make it for dad along with the pineapple pie recipe.

When my mother passed away that is the ONLY thing I requested & received . YES !!!!

Sour cream raisin pie or something like it.
 

I love old cook books, I have the Meta Given's Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking. It has two recipes, one for a sour-cream prune pie, and one for a buttermilk raisin pie..do these sound like your mom's recipes?
If so would you like me to post them for you? I would think that chopped prunes would cook up much like raisins or buttermilk would act much like sour cream.

My Mom and Grandmother both taught me how to cook, then my DH's German Grandmother taught me many German recipes as well as Bavarian recipes, and canning and we loved cooking/baking together. I am very glad I learned many different ways of cooking/baking/canning/canning as I have passed this onto my daughters. One has so many shortcuts I told her she should start a blog about food!

I have collected recipes and cookbooks since I was 16. While I have tons of recipes that I do share, there are a couple that I do not. This is a difficult question for me to answer, but since you asked the question. The honest answer is: I do not want to share them and I do not need a reason.