Thanksgiving receipt

[bmccasland]

My mother always called it a "receipt" too, or a "rule" - but never a recipe. Wonder how those terms came into use (or how they fell from common use)?

Now don't ask me for a reference - but I heard in the early days it was "receipt" because one would keep all your books in the library, clean and dry, so to use a recipe you'd write out a receipt of the ingredients to take to the kitchen.

and I agree with Hub - it's "pa Cahns". In fact I just bought a pecan praline (pa-cahn pra-leen (the "pra" rhymes with bra)) at farmers market this morning. My indulgence...