“Secret” family recipes

I have been having a mental debate with myself – not sure which side is winning right now!

It’s about what to do with “secret family recipes”.  The question is – do I post them and share them with all, or keep them “secret”?  I actually don’t think there are that many recipes that fall into that category.  The only 2 I can think of include a hershey’s cake and kishka (if you know what this is, I make a vegetarian version).  And well, the kishka is not really a secret as I found it on a box of Manischewitz tam-tams once.  Ha ha.  Part of keeping it a secret is that means I’m the only one who gets to make it.  Which isn’t necessarily an issue – at least with the kishka.  I’m just expected to make it whenever the occasion calls for it.

But by sharing it, then there is a written record of the recipe, and hopefully it doesn’t get lost.  I’ve seen others who favor this method – this way the “pinches”, “smidgens”, and other cooking secrets don’t get lost as the recipe gets passed on from one generation to another.  I know when I’d ask my grandmother questions about how she would make different favorites of mine, it was always – a pinch here, a lot of something there, until it tastes good, etc.  I wish I had written down her recipes.  Now I can only try to recreate them until they taste like I remember them.

So that’s the dilemma…what to do with the secret family recipes?!?!?!