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WOLF: Collection of old recipes offers treasured reminder of childhood

COLUMN: Everyone’s mom was an amazing cook back in the day
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A collection of Mum’s old recipes. (Penny Koers photo)

I’m not an especially good cook.

Mostly, I get by.

I don’t mind cooking, though anything that takes a lot of time becomes less appealing to increasingly screen-addicted me.

As a kid, I cooked exactly one staple meal for myself – hamburger patties, with mashed potatoes and baked beans. Cut up the patties, and mush everything together. Sounds tasty, right?

And pretty much the only reason I made it for myself was because it offended the culinary sensibilities of my Mum so much, she simply refused to take part.

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