How old does something have to be in order to be "tradition"?
Easy: as soon as the people who adopted it into the current form are dead and the adoption forgotten.
My grandmother's cherry island cake was almost certainly copied off the back of a package sometime in the 1920s or 30s; maybe it's an adaptation of a German or Hungarian recipe. Now it's a tradition in my family.
Easy: as soon as the people who adopted it into the current form are dead and the adoption forgotten.
My grandmother's cherry island cake was almost certainly copied off the back of a package sometime in the 1920s or 30s; maybe it's an adaptation of a German or Hungarian recipe. Now it's a tradition in my family.