Not getting the whole recipe, grr update

I hope you solve it. I'd love to make these if not too sweet, not too tart
It's funny how wilt some are about their recipes- wonder how they'd like the online sharing that happens today? Or maybe that explains some of the funky notes that I always thought were typos?

My Nana would purposely leave out an ingredient so we never knew what her exact recipes were! Maybe you can find a close matched recipe and figure the correct ingredients from there?

Is anyone else thinking of the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond" when Marie deliberately sabotaged Deb in making hr recipe for her famous meatball (I think it was)? Too funny.

You would think you would want your family to enjoy their favorites from you once you were gone.

for women of my grandmother's generation, they were most often homemakers. Their reputations rested on how well they did that job. Part of that was cooking. Being able to do something well and have a dish that was requested was a source of pride. It made them feel loved, admired, and useful. If they gave out that recipe so anyone could make it, then it wasn't theirs anymore.

Also I think that recipe books were not nearly as common as they are now. We live in a world where we can get a recipe for anything from anywhere. Sharing recipes is the standard. They lived in a world where recipes were part of their inheritance from their mothers and grandmothers. They were probably tweaked and adjusted from generation to generation, each woman working with the recipes until she was happy with them. So time, effort, food, and family pride were wrapped up in those as well.

My grandmother wasn't a great cook. She was pretty average for her time, but she had one dish that everyone loved. You had better believe that no one has that recipe. It was hers. She told my mom that if she shared, what use would her family have for her? I think that's a common worry.