collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
Cooking with the Groundhog compiled by The Adrian Hospital Auxiliary of Punxsutawney, Pa 1958 The book opens with a recipe for cooking groundhog credited to “The Seer” followed by a poem about Punxsutawney and then a short history of how the area got its names and the groundhog which predicts the weather which they call…
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…
Kitchen Magic compiled by Usher Board of Pilgrim Baptist Church St Paul, Minnesota 1959
Jersey Shore Cooks and Artists illustrated by The Manasquan River Group of Artists to benefit the Point Pleasant Hospital Guild, Point Pleasant, NJ 1958
Alcatraz Women’s Club Cook Book
Cooking Maryland Style with a Section on Herb Cookery Compiled by the Women’s League Church of the Ascension