A woman in the US has a weird hobby that she loves to do. She loves to find cooking recipes on gravestones and cooks them!
Rosie Grant, a student at the University of Maryland’s School of Library and Information Science, interned in the Congressional Cemetery’s archives about a year ago.
Her first venture into the world of cemeteries began when she created a TikTok account and began sharing details about her studies with the internet.
That’s when she discovered that some gravestones has recipes on them. A recipe for cookies, called spritz cookies, was the first recipe she ever made.
The recipe was next to Naomi Miller-Dawson’s grave in Green Wood Cemetery.
The cookies had only 7 ingredients and had no instructions on how to bake them. However, she decided to give it a try. This is when she decided to find more recipes with gravestones.
@ghostlyarchive Naomi Miller-Dawson’s grave in Green Wood Cemetery #recipesoftiktok #recipesforyou #gravestone #greenwoodcemetery #taphophile #spritzcookies #gravetok
After that, she decided to go to another gravestone that had a different recipe. She found many gravestone throughout here venture. In another video, she found a gravestone with a recipe for fudge. Next to the grave of Kay Andrews, there was the recipe written on a black tombstone.
She successfully made the recipe stating that it was “a recipe to die for”. Check out her video below!
@ghostlyarchive Kay’s fudge grave in Utah #recipesoftiktok #recipesforyou #gravestone #atlasobscura #taphophile #fudgerecipe #gravetok #cookingtok #cemeteryexploring
Rosie told TODAY that, “When we’re in mourning, food is very comforting to us.”
“These recipes feel like a more tactile, all-senses-included way to remember someone rather than only using your memory.”
Sources: Oddity Central, TODAY, @ghostlyarchive
