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Grandma’s Story & Recipes is a keepsake journal with her name on the cover: 90 gentle questions about her life, and 24 pages for the family recipes only she knows.

Give it to the grandmother in your family this Christmas, or fill it in yourself for your grandchildren.

A printable PDF journal for Grandma, Nan or Nana, with her name on it.

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A Keepsake Journal
Nan Margaret’s
Story & Recipes
A keepsake journal of her life, her love and her kitchen
Hearth & Tin
This book is for you
For Nan Margaret
For all the stories you told us at the kitchen table.
Every page of this journal is waiting for your voice.
With love from Emma, Jack & Lily
2026
A peek at the questions

Small questions. Big stories.

  1. 11
    What were the sounds of your childhood home? Think of the kettle, the wireless, a door that squeaked, a clock, someone humming.Which of those sounds would you love to hear once more?
  2. 71
    Which Christmas foods do you remember best? Think of pudding, fruit cake, trifle, shortbread, mince pies, pavlova, butter tarts, ham or something particular to your family.Did you ever help to make them, and who taught you?
  3. 36
    If you had a partner or a great love, how did you meet? What did you first notice about them?Who made the first move, and what did you say?
  4. 90
    Finish this sentence as many times as you like: ‘One thing I want you to know is...’Say it plainly, as if you were sitting beside them.
What’s inside

134 pages, and every one is hers

  • Her name on the cover, your dedication inside, and chapter introductions written to her
  • 90 questions in eight chapters, including one on Christmas and family traditions
  • Four letters to her grandchildren, each started with a gentle opening line
  • Her kitchen: 24 recipe pages with room for the story and “My secret”
  • A family tree, photo pages and pages for the questions you still want to ask
  • A4 or US Letter PDF to print and bind, or to write on with a tablet and stylus
Sample page: chapter one, Where I Come From Sample page: the first questions with lines to write on Sample page: a recipe page with Ingredients, Method, The story behind it and My secret Sample page: the family tree

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