What’s the one tool or dish passed down from a family member that you couldn’t part with?

The family dinner table always makes for good conversation. mick a topic, fill your plate and have a happy heart-to-heart.

My great-grandmother’s recipe box is so precious to me. Almost every recipe is in her delicate handwriting and you can tell that they were used many, many times. My favorite recipe is her plain cake. Strawberry shortcake and rhubarb cobbler wouldn’t be the same without that cake! I sure do miss her. —Stephanie Whipple, Clifton, Idaho

One item from my mom that I use is her favorite mug. I learned how to make noodles and pie crust with this mug. For some reason, my mom always beat her eggs in her special mug, so now I do, too. It may seem silly, but sometimes the silly memories are the best. —Courtney Kitch Stultz, Weir, KS My late grandfather Ray was a blind woodworker. One of his specialties was

beautiful rolling pins.

He took great pride in his work, and it was a painstaking process with all of the extra steps he had to take to complete the process. He gave these two to me before he passed away and they have been a way for me to remember his tenacity and to share the joys of baking with my toddler. —Jackie Perkins, Spokane, WA My mom’s Danish ebelskiver pan, which makes little round pancakes. Her parents came to this country from Denmark around 1900 (their names are on the wall at Ellis Island), so my mom is 100 percent Danish. We had

ebelskivers all the time when we were growing up, and I could not, would not ever give this pan away!

—Kathy Krisko Barrett, Dayton, OH