Article: Food for the ages: Sisters collect vintage recipes to create 'Heirloom Baking' cookbook.

Byline: Natalie Mikles

May 13--Marilynn and Sheila Brass are like your favorite aunts, your next-door neighbors, your best friends. They describe themselves as roundish, bespectacled women in their '60s, and they cook like they look.

Butterballs, butterscotch bars, pineapple upside-down cake, fudge -- these and so many more are the recipes the sisters salvaged from flea markets, yard sales and antique shops.

They didn't set out to write a cookbook of heirloom recipes, but once they had collected so many they knew that's exactly what they should do.

Marilynn and Sheila started collecting old recipes 30 years ago. They couldn't believe ...

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