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Month: December 2023

Delights for the Holidays

Posted on December 23, 2023December 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Delights for the Holidays compiled by the ALA Staff (undated)

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Christmas Is…Good Things to Eat

Posted on December 21, 2023December 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Christmas Is…Good Things to Eat A collection of recipes compiled by TORCH Business and Professional Woman’s Club, Danville, Virginia

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Christmas Memories Cookbook

Posted on December 17, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Christmas Memories Cookbook: 350 Favorite Christmas Recipes from Mystic Seaport Members 1985 Mystic, Connecticut

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PILCO Holiday Dessert Cookbook 1980

Posted on December 14, 2023January 2, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

PILCO Holiday Dessert Cookbook 1980

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Quelque Chose pour un Joyeux Noel: Acadian Recipes for Christmas Dinners and Desserts

Posted on December 12, 2023February 27, 2024 by Rachel Rappaport

Quelque Chose pour un Joyeux Noel: Acadian Recipes for Christmas Dinners and Desserts edited by Mercedes Vidrine, Illustrations by J. A. Allen recipe contributions by readers of the Opelousas Daily World 1967

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Monster Cookies

Posted on December 10, 2023November 28, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Monster Cookies updated and adapted from Alison Parson’s Monster Cookies appearing in What’s Cooking in Our All-American City? II Junior Jam compiled by Rockingham Junior Woman’s Club, 1985

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VIP Holiday Cookbook Vol. IV

Posted on December 8, 2023December 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

VIP Holiday Cookbook Vol. IV First printing 1981, fourth printing 1984 American Cancer Society Northern Virginia Area

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Chocolate Buttermint Cookies

Posted on December 6, 2023November 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

This recipe caught my eye because I had never seen a recipe for cooking with buttermints before! I rarely see them outside of a few old-fashioned restaurants but at one point they were a baby shower and wedding staple. They are chalky pastel mint pillows that melt in your mouth. I had a real craving…

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Christmas is a Warm Cookie

Posted on December 4, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Christmas is a Warm Cookie presented for your enjoyment by The Children’s Board of Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, Ohio 1979

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Lingonberry Fingers

Posted on December 2, 2023September 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

adapted and updated from an unknown contributor’s recipe for Raspberry Fingers from Oh Boy! Cookies… Sponsored by Southwestern Band Boosters (undated)

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Oh Boy, Cookies…

Posted on December 1, 2023November 15, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Oh Boy, Cookies… sponsored by Southwestern Band Boosters (undated)

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