collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
Noted Cookery: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra compiled by the Junior Group of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra 1969 The book states that they “gathered, tested, typed, and proofed recipes” and had received over 1400 recipes! The book contains 750 and is a very professional looking hardback. They had a number of…
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…
CHS Cooks… compiled by Lumen Vitae Auxiliary of Children’s Home Society Lompoc, CA 1987 CHS of California was the “largest voluntarily supported counseling and adoption agency in America” and was founded in 1891 and in 1961 they formed the auxiliary that put out this cookbook. Other fundraising attempts they’ve made were bridge marathons, Santa visits,…
Entertaining the Louisville Way complied by The Queen’s Daughters, Incorporated, Louisville, Kentucky 1969