THE STORY BEHIND THE MILK CALENDAR

I have an entire kitchen cupboard full of recipes. It’s a combination of favourite recipe books, magazine and newspaper clippings (some of which I’ve organized in plastic page holders in a binder), old Milk Calendars, and ancient recipe cards from my mother and grandmother. I treasure the recipe cards the most because they have the power to instantly recreate childhood memories of watching my mom baking or the special times when she let me help. Though she is no longer with us, I keep my favourite memories alive by turning to her recipe cards for inspiration in the kitchen. When the call went out to dairy farmers across Canada in 2013 asking us to submit our family recipes featuring dairy ingredients for the next Milk Calendar, I jumped at the opportunity. The Milk Calendar has been a fixture on my family’s kitchen wall for as long as I