Merry Christmas Cake

I made my annual Pistachio Cake today.  I used to have to make 2, and wished I had made three because everyone loves this cake and I never had enough.  I got this particular cake recipe from my high school boyfriend’s mother.  I was 15 years old.  I remember her giving me the recipe and emphatically telling me to start it out in a cold oven. Doing the math that recipe was given to me approximately 50 years ago. FIFTY. That’s the same year Franco Harris made his immaculate reception. (RIP Franco ☹) Every year when I make the cake I think of Mrs. Nieman (boyfriend’s mom) and their kitchen where she entrusted me with her recipe. Fifty years that recipe has stayed with me. And for fifty years a favorite Christmas memory tied to that cake.

At Thanksgiving this year my great niece (Mya) asked my sister (her grandmother) if she was going to write down her recipes so Mya will have them when my sister passes.  We laughed out loud, but I mean talk about being proactive. Mya is on it. And I guess we are the old people now.

Here is hoping you have comforting memories that are at least 50 years old and this year give a favorite recipe to a young person who will think of you in fifty years!

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.

xoxoxo

Go Steelers!