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Topic: Heirlooms

Heirlooms is a monthly series that looks at the recipes families pass down from one generation to the next and why they matter.

Jazmin Rudin with her mother, Esperanza

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Carol with her sister Joanne (Courtesy of Carol)

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Clockwise from left: Aunt Sissy, Uncle Frank, Aunt Jonie and Aunt Rosie (Courtesy of Tom Gannon)

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Jan's grandparents, Opal and Paul, with her father, Jerry (Courtesy of Jan Kinney)

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The author's husband's grandmother Betsy with her children (Courtesy of Felisa Rogers)

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Mary Lou's family in Kansas in 1944. Mary Lou is on the far right (Courtesy of Mary Lou Goertzen)

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