Good morning Lottie Kendall - thanks for sharing pictures of your mother and aunt.  I think I my mother too and hope I can find a picture.

What a great photo. Love the recipe too, Lottie. I know where to get a photo of my mom, lucky to have her in the next room. ;) 

Hi Lottie... just love, love, love the photo. I have a wall of family photos in my office of family going back to WWI.... pictures of great grandparents,  grandparents, parents, siblings... all the way to the 1950's and all in black and white. Sad to say, as neither my mother nor my grandmother cooked, I have no recipes to share because none were passed down.

Lottie thank you for sharing the receipts, and memories of your Mom.

Love the photo of your Mom, her sister and kids! Recipes were simple back then....gotta love that! Your Mom's spirit sounds a great deal like my Mom's... Always adventurous, full of enthusiasm and positivity!  We were fortunate girls, weren't we!!

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Thank you for sharing those memories of your mother and the picture of your mother and Aunt is precious. 

Happy Friday to you Lottie Kendall 

Hello Lottie - what a nice photo and a loving memory of your Mom you have shared.  It seems you have been influenced by her appreciation of marketing(how else can the naming baked goods be explained beyond the marketing genius it was?) as well as hiking. 

I like "how" Lise Howe has inspired so many other AR members to share recipes and memories with her original post.  

Lottie-Those are great photos of your Mom and aunt. Your recipe for the Sunday special sounds good. Recipe with potato, coconut and chocolate sounds different but last year at a campground where lots of folks from Idaho stayed they had Idaho spud candy bars which were made with potato, chocolate and coconut I think and they were pretty good.

Lottie,

What a great photo you shared with us.  These have so much character to them, and I love that your mom went backpacking in Europe in her 60's.  A

Lottie,  My mother was not much of a cook either. She was a meat and potato kind of person and kept it simple. 

Like you, I have fond memories of my Mom and the times we shared together. As I got older I did all of the cooking and baking for our family of 8.  I loved to cook and I loved baking more.  

The photo is priceless.  

It is interesting about the lack of specifics on many recipes from our parents, or their parents. "Just put it on till it looks like enough." Haha!

Thanks for sharing your mom's recipes. I love the photo!

Lise Howe really started something wonderful with her posts and I am enjoying the posts that are coming from it.  I love seeing old pictures and that coconut potato candy sounds delicious.

What a wonderful photo and memory, Lottie! What fun to have recipes from your Mom that were special to you.

Jeff

What I remember most about my mother's cooking is it was simple, wholesome and fed the soul.

CONGRATULATIONS Lottie, on having this blog FEATURED in the Old Farts Club group!  

Lottie Kendall   What a beautiful tribute to your mother and all Moms - my Mom was a barrel of fun but a horrid cook 

Lottie, this is such  a great story.  When I read that your Mom headed to Europe with her back-pack, I felt, yes, I can relate to that, I did it, too (in my early 20-ies). Then, I saw the next line - " in her 60-ies". That is something I really admire. Maybe, I'll get a chance to revisit the places we travelled in my 20-ies, with a back pack, again, this decade ... It will be worth it.

Lottie just stopping by to wish you a very, very special day today!!!

This is such a sweet tribute and it reminds me of my own mom in so many ways and so many memories with her. :)

I would agree with that “George and I want to wish everybody a happy Mother’s Day who I might’ve missed yesterday

George Souto

Lottie Kendall - What a GREAT story for Mother's Day! Your story and the beautiful photograph gave me goosebumps! It sounds like a clip from a movie that I would want to watch, especially if it included your mother's footprints, backpacking to Europe in her 60s! Now I know exactly where you get your courage, strength, faith, and spirit of adventure. You are your mother's daughter in the best ways that count.  

Lottie, Coconut Potato Candy, brilliant.  Who'd have guessed.  Must try, will probably love as much as the kids !!

Thank you very much, Lottie, for sharing some of your fond memories.

My mother was a wonderful cook.

Back in the depression era I'm sure this recipe made an introduction!  Simple ingredients that were inexpensive were common, flour and water.  Thank you for sharing this one!  Love seeing those photos of that era!

I loved reading your mother's recipes and the stories of her life and how she inspired you.  I want to go back to Europe - backpacking in my 70s sounds just right! (since I am nearly 68 now)

I don't know any of my Mom's recipes because they were in her head. She was skinny as a rail, but she loved to cook and bake and feed other people.

She always wanted a hot air balloon ride, so in her late 70's she took one. They had a rough landing, the basket tipped over, and she landed on the bottom of the pile of people who fell out. She didn't care; she loved the experience. She also took flying lessons in her 70's - picking up where she had left off when life got in the way years earlier.

Yes, I miss her every day.