Dear Reader: Thank You Kindly & Graciously for your purchase of the Martin Family Heirloom Cookbook It holds many recipes from our Family to yours. Some were closely guarded secrets unknown to the world & hidden until now. They are sure to become favored classics at your next Formal Dinner Party or Family Engagement. We surviving children cherished these recipes growing up and I was lucky enough to become the keeper of these the Holy Grail of Recipes, so to speak; after my Father Lawrence Wesley Martin passed away. Our Mother Katharina Martin-Caldwell, passed away a handful of years later, so I decided with my other family members it was time to sit down & finally put our best recipes together into one volume. May you come to Love and enjoy them as you do your own recipes Enjoy them all thoroughly and a heartfelt and hearty Bon Appetite