Gwenda's Home Baking

<P>About ten years ago Mum gave me two of her old exercise books which contained a lot of handwritten recipes she had collected since 1953. I transcribed these to preserve them for posterity as the ink was fading and was diffi cult to read. I remember using these books as a teenager on the farm baking on weekends to fill the cookie jar and make some cakes for the farm hands. As a lover of good home baking Mum's recipes have always been there to produce some of those nostalgic smells of freshly baked cakes and biscuits. I loved baking for my kids when they were growing up and they always preferred Mum's baked cakes and biscuits over anything bought from the supermarkets.</P><P>Mum has seen it all whilst on the farm. She's been through droughts and fl oods good and bad times and has had her share of adversities. She is a survivor of breast cancer and is currently cancer-free. She has been an inspiration to all of us growing up and this is one way of giving a little of that back. I have three sisters and we all cannot stress enough to all women to keep vigilant with self examination and mammograms as early detection will equal early intervention and good outcomes. I use a lot of these recipes for fundraisers.</P>