collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
The Chesapeake Collection: A Treasury of Recipes and Memorabilia from Maryland’s Eastern Shore 1983 has to be one of the community cookbooks I come across most often, if not the most common one. It was published by Tidewater Publishers of Centreville, Maryland. The copyright says 1983 by Woman’s Club of Denton, Inc and then “first…
Favorite Recipes Collected by Kent County High School P.T.S.A undated. Judging from the ad for a store called Disco Tape in the Kent Plaza Shopping Center in Chestertown, Maryland I’d guess it was late 1970s or early 1980s. Not a huge amount of recipes but a good selection of main dishes, sides, bread, desserts and…
Delicacies from Dame collected by the College of Notre Dame of Maryland 1986 The College of Notre Dame of Maryland is a private, Baltimore City based Catholic school that was women’s college until Fall 2023. It changed its name to Notre Dame of Maryland University in 2011 after adding several graduate level programs. The Baltimore…
Campus Cooking: Bits of the Best from Goucher 1972
Recipes & Remembrances compiled by the Howard County Center of African American Culture 2020
The Belles of St Mary’s Cookbook 1988 benefiting the parish and mission of All Saint’s Church of Chevy Chase, Maryland in honor of the woman’s guild’s 30th anniversary. Presumably the name refers to the 1945 Bing Crosby movie, The Bells of St Mary’s. Heavy on quick and easy recipes with few ingredients and includes a…
Port Deposit Heritage Cookbook Third Edition 2007 proceeds benefit the Port Deposit Heritage Corporation with the aim to preserve and restore Port Deposit, Md. The book is currently available for sale at the Paw Paw Museum on Port Deposit, Md. The first Port Deposit Heritage Cookbook was published in 1976 followed by a second edition…
A Yum Yum Spree of Recipes collected by the Baltimore County General Hospital Auxiliary 1971
Double-ly Delicious complied by Columbia Mothers of Twins Club of Columbia, Maryland 1994
5th edition 1972
Little Orleans Cookbook
The Cook’s Book 3 complied by the Miriam Lodge. Undated but includes a calendar page featuring the years 1987, 1988 and 1989 so most likely published in 1987. The Miriam Lodge, K.S.B. was founded 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland, and is still in existence today. There is a nice timeline on their website that outlines their…
We Cook and Tell compiled by the Woman’s Club of Glenhill November 1966