They say that every picture tells a story and this picture is no exception. The story behind this frame job spans 3 generations.
As Jeannie put it ” When I was a little girl, my Mom would put me on the counter and let me to sift flour. My earliest memory of this is from the age of 2. It has been the same with my boys. As long as they could reach the counter or sit on the counter, they could get flour all over, I don’t care about the mess because this is a tradition. And the tradition starts in the middle of November, once a week until Christmas. God forbid you should ask about making them in July! According to my Mom you can’t make them any other time of year. You make them in a specific way. You roll them into little snakes, cut them into an exact size, and place them cut side down on a cookie sheet. Sometime my boys would get into little squabbles and they’d reach over and smash each others cookies right before they were to go onto the cookie sheet. They have wonderful memories of that! Not only do you have to make them in a certain way, but they are eaten is a certain way as well. You have a plate with a mug in the middle, with the Pepper Nuts all along the edge and you don’t dip them, they are NEVER dipped! Instead you have your spoon and you put your Pepper Nut in and just before they sink you snag ’em! You can see in the frame that there is a picture of the 3 of us at the top, the recipe in the middle and on the bottom a picture of each of the boys making Pepper Nuts.”