I am also very glad that you rescued the recipe. My great grandmother did not use recipes. She never wrote down how to make anything, so when she passed, if mom and her sisters hadn't learned to make it, it was lost. Mom was able to reconstruct a pea soup her grandmother made because she ran across a recipe in a magazine that was similar. Who'd think to put whole allspice in a pea soup? IMHO it is a sad thing when a family's heritage is lost in that way.
When my grandmother passed away, the first thing I grabbed was her old red Betty Crocker cookbook. Sure, Betty has some great recipes but granny had it stuffed with bits of paper with all sorts of recipes. I don't know that I ever ate anything that came from the recipes but they was in her handwriting and had dribbles of food stains. She never followed recipes, neither do I, but she obviously used them as a starting point. I was so thrilled the day an old friend sent me a reprint of a community cookbook because it had some of her recipes in it.