collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
The Officer’s Wives Holiday Cookbook undated “a special project of Officers’ Wives Clubs” and “proceeds from its sale supply these clubs with the funds they need to support a wide variety off worthwhile projects”. The book is divided into menus for different holidays from Labor Day to Lincoln’s Birthday to New Year’s Eve. There are…
What’s Cooking in Our All-American City? II Junior Jam compiled by Rockingham Junior Woman’s Club, Rockingham, North Carolina 1985
Holiday Flavors and Favors compiled by the Junior League of Greensboro, North Carolina 1975
adapted and updated from Betty McKay’s recipe for Apple-Cream Coffee Cake appearing in The Happy Cooker presented by Entre Nous (1974)
Hot Turkey Salad updated and adapted from Mrs. John Dale Showell III (Ann)’s recipe for Hot Chicken Salad appearing in Ocean City Museum Society Cookbook 1982, Ocean City, Maryland
Burnt Offerings compiled by North Oakland Fire Authority Auxiliary Holly, Michigan 1984(?)
Tried and True Recipes That Measure Up compiled by the Covington, GA East Metro Christian Women’s Club 2005
adapted and updated from Leslie Holmes’ Pie Plate Corn Bread from School Maize A project of the Wilmington Education Association 1983 Wilmington, Ohio
School Maize: A project of the Wilmington Education Association 1983 Wilmington, Ohio
Recipes from Old Virginia compiled by the Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs 1958 (reprinted 1994, at this point the club had renamed Virginia Extension Homemakers Council) The introduction assures us that all 700+ recipes were “tested time and time again under ordinary home kitchen conditions”. “Proof of the pudding was in its tasting”. There…
Ocean City Museum Society Cookbook 1982