Recipes/1979 Good Things to Eat…from the Exchange Avenue Baptist Church Youth Choir
The book opens with a letter from Bill Shingleton talking about how the sales of this book will fund the sixty-member choir’s trip to Florida in 1979. It sounds like it was a well-traveled choir—he says that in the past 20 years, the choir had traveled over 50,000 miles coast to coast.
He also thanks the long list of people who helped put the cookbook together and the contributors.
The contributors are all credited and several of the recipes give helpful tips—Rowena Gooding advises that if you are using ‘large’ refrigerator biscuits to make her Quick Cheese Pullaparts, you will need a 9 inch pan rather than the 8 inch pan she initially calls for.
This book has the usual chapters plus ones of “Diet Foods” and “Microwave” and “This and That”. This and That turns out to largely be code for dips and sauces.
I was impressed by the variety of the recipes, there were a lot of the regular casseroles and meat dishes but also Mrs Jesse James’ Moussaka, Syble Locke’s Red Rock Candy, Cheryl Wright’s Rachel Sandwiches and Gerry Florence’s Pancit.
