Living You Family's Past Though Food

Several years ago my mother gave me a fork, knife, and spoon that belonged to my grandmother. Spending most of my childhood living next door to my grandparents, needless to say I ate most of my meals at their house. My grandmother had a beautiful set of sterling.
I would set at the kitchen table and watch my grandmother cook all the time. Even after 45 yrs I can still see her making a pot of beef soup, or a lemon chess pie as if it was only yesterday.
Family recipes help keep the memories of a deceased loved one stay alive. My grandmother made the best lemon chess pie. For years I stopped eating lemon chess, because I knew I would never find one as good as my grandmothers, but now I buy one every now and then. I use the knife of hers to cut a slice, the spoon to stir my coffee, and her fork to eat the pie with. As I sit there holding the fork with a bite of pie on it I think back to those days sitting at her kitchen table watching her cook.
Whenever I eat something that my grandmother would cook, I break out her sterling. I only wished I would have got some of her recipes!  I am sure my aunt has some. Think I just might have to go visit her one day!
Some people think ice cream, or chocolate as a comfort food.
To me a comfort food is something my mom, or grandmother cooked. Oh, ice cream is a comfort food for me. On a Saturday night as a kid my father would turn on the TV and find an old WWII movie, as it was starting, he would go into the kitchen and come back, with bowls of ice cream!   
For me geneology  and recipes just naturally go together!
Over the next few months I will be posting stories of  people and their memories of the food they grew up on.  Do you have recipe that brings back sweet memories?