Submitted by Megan Baker, Grants Pass, Oregon My grandmother and I have similar penmanship. Perhaps that’s why I pull out the index card containing her “Saucepan Brownies” recipe even though I’ve had it memorized for years now. I like looking at her writing. Growing up, my family would spend Sunday mornings at church and Sunday afternoons at my grandparents’ home. They had a beautiful home out in Oregon’s Applegate Valley: daffodil fields, a pond where you could hunt for fat toads, a tractor with a small attachable cart my grandpa would load us kids in for a cruise around the property, and a TV (we didn’t grow up with one in my home) that was usually playing football or videotapes of “I Love Lucy,” to this day one of my favorite TV shows. But ranked higher than any of those attractions was my grandma’s cooking—specifically, her desserts. Aside from her applesauce …
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