I doubt the authenticity of the recipe, having been to culinary school now, but when I told the sibs what I was making, this first year without Mom at Christmas, all I got was a choked up: "aww...sh..."
/johnny
My first year without my Mother. Know the feeling brother.
She gave my Wife the recipe about six months before she passed away back in 2001. My Wife does a great job, but we always joke that there is a little something missing in the sauce. Since my Mother was a smoker, my Wife guessed that it was missing some cigarette ash. LOL
Saw an old Everybody Loves Raymond episode where the M-I-L gave Ray's Wife one of her recipes, but she purposely left out one key ingredient. Cracked me up...