Family Favorites compiled by the Vashon Island United Methodist Church 1993
Vashon Island is a tiny rural island in Puget Sound. I couldn’t resist buying a cheap lot of 8 cookbooks and a music book(!) when I saw them on eBay. What an interesting location! The population is under 11,000 so that is a lot of recipes for a little place!
This cookbook opens with a little history of the church dating back to 1885–it was a hand-hewed, island-harvested log structure. In the early 1990s, a newer parsonage was damaged in a storm and they had to repair and rebuild. It seems like the book came out shortly after the re-dedication–perhaps as a way to recoup some funds spent on repairs?
Most of the recipes have named contributors and there are the usual suspects, some canning recipes (do not assume they are actually safe to make!), many soups including Freddie Gibbs’ San Miguel Avocado Soup and Catherine Carr’s Fresh Berry Soup that calls for wild strawberries, many casseroles, bread, desserts, and even crackers. There is also a recipe for the surprisingly popular in these books microwave shrimp scampi which I can confidently say I will never modernize unless it is to save it from the microwave. I am very intrigued by the Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes contributed by Joyce Green. Leftover bread recipes are a real interest of mine.
Not a huge book–only about 100 pages and only generic stock pictures on the cover and dividers.
