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…
To Stir with Love: Favorite Recipies from the Families of Concord Presbyterian Church 1976
Kitchen Magic compiled by Usher Board of Pilgrim Baptist Church St Paul, Minnesota 1959
A Cauldron of Delight: Favorite Recipes of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel and Friends
First Church Fare compiled by First Presbyterian Church, Bel Air, Maryland 1990
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…
Tempting Delights from the Garden of Eat’n compiled by Martin Luther Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 1979
Revised Souvenir Recipe Book Nov. 1979
Sharing the Loaves and Fishes compiled by Vashon Presbyterian Church Vashon Island, Washington
Family Favorites compiled by the Vashon Island United Methodist Church
Cooking Maryland Style with a Section on Herb Cookery Compiled by the Women’s League Church of the Ascension
Keys to the Kitchen compiled by Saint Peter’s Catholic Church, Olney, Md.
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…