collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans complied by the Old Ursuline Convent, Chartres Street New Orleans, Louisiana 1971 (7th printing 1980) This book opens with a history of the convent about how the nuns helped “little female orphans” and the survivors of “Indian massacres” and had special classes for “Negro and Indian girls” to learn…
Christmas Is…Good Things to Eat A collection of recipes compiled by TORCH Business and Professional Woman’s Club, Danville, Virginia
Christmas is a Warm Cookie presented for your enjoyment by The Children’s Board of Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, Ohio 1979
Holiday Flavors and Favors compiled by the Junior League of Greensboro, North Carolina 1975
The Horatio Street Festival of Foods Cookbook, Greenwich Village, New York City compiled by The Horatio Street Association 1978
Three Rivers Cookbook I “The Good Taste of Pittsburgh” compiled by Child Health Association of Sewickley, PA 1973
To Stir with Love: Favorite Recipies from the Families of Concord Presbyterian Church 1976
Favorite Recipes of Mon River Valley Chapter Sweet Adelines 1972 (Mon Valley, Pennsylvania)
The Happy Cooker (1974)
Favorite Recipes from the British and Commonwealth Wives’ Club Guam 1977
Hooked on Cooking
Family Fixins’ recipes submitted by Family Housing Residents during Fall Quarter 1976 (location unknown)
The Mixing Bowl Jeffersonville High School PTA, Jeffersonville, Indiana 1978
Favorite Recipes From Our Best Cooks complied by the Philadelphia Chapter of Jack and Jill of America 1979
The Flavor of Chester County complied by Chester County Junior Women’s Clubs First edition 1972, Revised edition 1975
Invite Me Again
Minnesota Heritage Cookbook: Hand-Me-Down Recipes for the Benefit of the American Cancer Society, Minnesota Division, Inc 1979
Favorite Recipes from Our Best Cooks: Welcome Wagon Club of Fairfield and Easton, Inc
Artist’s “Palate” Cookbook: A Book of Favorite Recipes from Our Artists and Friends compiled by the Cook Book Committee of the Art Department The Woman’s Club, Fort Worth, Texas 1979
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…