Grandma’s Bread Box
A digital recipe book of all Grandma’s hand-written recipes as a way to let her love live on through meals shared with family and friends.
A message from our matriarch
Dear Family,
Here are some of the recipes that make us “us.” each recipe is missing one ingredient – love. That is what makes each one delicious… totally memorable. However, the ingredient indispensable to our family is the love we share through salvation in Jesus Christ. We invite others to enjoy these recipes, but more than anything we want them to shar our Jesus.
Love, Mom/Grandma
excerpt from Grandma’s first family cookbook
Why the Bread Box?
LOVE STARTS WITH LOAVES
Candles line store shelves, theme parks pipe in the scent, and books spend pages describing it. The smell of freshly baked bread fills us with joy, nostalgia, and peace. The smell of freshly baked bread while sitting in Grandma’s house with a cup of coffee and the sliding glass door open on a December day? That memory is one that sticks with us forever.
Mom, Grandma, GG. She was known to us all by different names, but the taste of her bread was the same. No holiday was complete without the pillowy-soft rolls that she spent hours creating. Children and grandchildren alike have all put in the hours in her tiny little kitchen. Learning what to do when the dough got shaggy, the arm workout of kneading a 5lb loaf, all while listening to her bright, wheezing laughter when our hands got covered in the sticky mess. There are few sounds that I recall with perfect clarity, but that of her nails clicking on the table while she kneaded the dough into perfection is one of them. We may not be professional bakers, but she did instill in us all a deep appreciation for the life-giving food and the heart-fulfilling moments spent with family.
I like to think that when she made it into Heaven’s gates, after dancing and shouting with joy, she then got to make some bread for our Lord.
This site is in memory of Barbara Ann Raymond. With the help of her grandkids, we’ve created this place where friends and family can still feel her love through the recipes she created.