When elderly Murray Blair invites his son and daughters to his farm in New Hampshire, he really hopes that the family will spend the weekend in peace and harmony. But, as usual, daughter Lizzie ruins all plans: she is late and shows up unexpectedly news and a tattered family heirloom - Fanny Farmer's recipe book. An old edition of the cookbook with notes in the margins holds the secrets of their long-dead mother. There is a hint hidden in the handwritten lines; perhaps it will help children discover a secret that they have long and unsuccessfully tried to uncover. In 2019, Elizabeth Hyde won the Colorado Book Award in the Fiction category with her novel Ask Fanny.