1.   A beloved family friend named Miz Effie Hawkins perfected the recipe that became a huge family favorite.

2.   After my first bite, I believe her when she says she had been perfecting the recipe ever since.

3.   Eugenia Poolos has perfected this recipe through years of baking for festivals and family gatherings.

4.   Hot cocoa is his drink of preference, and one of his elves has been struggling for eons to perfect the recipe.

5.   In six months, he had the recipe perfected.

6.   It was Audrey, he said, who helped perfect the recipes, since he never liked the taste of candy, preferring a good piece of Italian bread.

7.   Michon became obsessed with winning, spending weeks perfecting a recipe.

8.   Once a recipe is perfected in the home, it tends to create standards impossible for anyone else to meet.

9.   Once they felt their recipes were perfected, they rented commercial kitchen space on Friday and spent their weekends mixing and baking.

10.   Swafford said the recipes had been perfected when the women in the family cooked for the large threshing crews that worked during harvests.