collecting community cookbooks and modernizing the recipes
Cooking in the Chesapeake Country. Galena Volunteer Fire Company, Galena, Maryland 1967 This is not my first book from Galena! Or Kent County for that matter. This one was “prepared by the women of the community for The Galena Volunteer Fire Company” and all proceeds went to the Galena Volunteer Fire Company Building Fund. They…
Swap Around Recipes collected by members of the Delmarva Square Dance Federation (undated).
The Chestertown Bank of Maryland Tastes You Can Bank On Volume II
Our Favorite Recipes Sponsored by the Soroptimist Club of Salisbury, Maryland 1965
A real Maryland classic! Adapted and updated from “Butterfly”‘s recipe in The Chesapeake Collection: A Treasury of Recipes and Memorabilia from Maryland’s Eastern Shore 1983
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…