Favorite Recipes from the British and Commonwealth Wives’ Club Guam 1977
I’d love to know more about this book. As far as I can tell it is from a group of women who all lived on Guam but were British or from any of their commonwealth countries. It was printed in Kansas.
If anyone knows more, let me know! I can’t find anything about this group online. Often wives’ clubs are military wives’ clubs but Guam is a US territory and the UK doesn’t have a base there.
There is an international flare to these recipes that includes places far beyond the reach of the British empire. Marie Oliver (England) contributed Cucumber Kim-chee, Piccalilli, and Green Tomato Chutney. Fahimah McLaughlin (England) shared Kartoffelpuffer (Potato Pancakes).
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There are also the standard casseroles and beef dishes.
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All of the recipes include the woman’s name and their country of origin. There are some traditional UK dishes like stovies, Cornish Pasties, Irish Dumplings etc. I feel like they must have been asked to contribute either a “national dish” or an “international dish”–perhaps from another country these women might have lived in before Guam?
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There is a group of recipes simply credited to “Guam” that contains largely Filipino dishes like lumpia and Pancit Bihon.
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