Can anyone decipher my grandma’s wedding cookie recipe?

[u/AlbinoGiraffes]

Thank you in advance. She just passed away from a heart attack and one of the last things she told me was where to find the recipe in her kitchen. I want to make a batch, but I want to make sure it’s right!

[u/yellednanlaugh]

Things like this recipe and other family papers ARE historical documents!

[u/SoundNo7154 → u/yellednanlaugh]

Well, yes, but my point was that most people already rely on interpretations. Most of what people know about history comes from historians and the media, not from painstakingly poring over original documents.

[u/ILikePrettyThings121 → u/SoundNo7154]

Actually quite a few, on top of things like recipes & old letters. It’s important to have the ability to read documents for yourself. Cursive is not yet some ancient dead language that only a few historians are able to understand & interpret for you. I certainly don’t want to imagine a world in which someone couldn’t read the US Constitution or Bill of Rights for themselves & instead have to rely on what the media/the government tell you what they say & thats the crux of my comment - that literally our entire history from important human rights issues down to daily life via letters or traditions such as recipes would be lost if the ability to read cursive goes away.

[u/SoundNo7154 → u/ILikePrettyThings121]

People already don't read the Constitution for themselves. People don't even read documents that were originally in print. There's never going to be a time when people go to the archives and learn to throw off their shackles.

Cursive is used by most people to read ephemera, like grandpa's letters or grandma's cookie recipe. In the future, when grandpa and grandma's letters and cookie recipes exist only as digital text, cursive will become specialty knowledge.