Preserving and Sharing Family Recipes PDF from Family Tree Magazine

I thought I would pass along an offer I received in my email today.  Family Tree Magazine has a sale going on for some research guides that cover all kinds of genealogical research.  One of the PDFs  by Karen Edwards is the Step-by-Step Guide: Preserving and Sharing Family Recipes. You can order it for  $4.00 and it's downloaded to your computer. While I haven't talked about recipe cards on this blog, obviously they are an important family heirloom. Consider taking some time to preserve them and share them with others so...

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Food Friday: You Say Stuffing, I Say Dressing

Today's Food Friday is unseasonal but it shows an aspect of community cookbooks that can be important to genealogists.  Some cookbook, allow contributors to write a line or two about the origin of the recipe they are submitting. Such is the case with today's post from the Corpus Christi: 50 Years in the Baking church cookbook.Unfortunately, I...

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Team Pork Rides Again

Having made delicious celeriac skordalia to accompany the ass-kicking steak, I naturally wanted to eat more of it. Team Pork worked so well the last time I thought I'd give them another shot. Called them up to the big show. Sent a bus ticket. Made a phone call. Talked their folks into letting them skip college.I cut nice big slabs of bacon and browned...

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Fuck it, I'm Fixing a Steak

On my last trip to Paulina Market I spotted some beautifully marbled strip steaks and instantly nabbed them. There were six of the little beauties and I got four just in time, as one of the butchers then emerged from the back and set the other two aside, I'll assume for himself but maybe a favorite client. These steaks were fantastic looking. Three...

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Food Friday: Perfection Salad

Couldn't everyone use a little Perfection Salad?  One recipe for it, shown below, comes from the Klamath Falls Ward (LDS Church), Klamath Falls, Oregon from their cookbook Our Favorite Recipes (1959).Community cookbooks often have other types of advice or recipes aside from things to cook.  Mock recipes like "How to Cook a Husband" offered...

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Vegetable Pilaf with Prosciutto Ribbons and Egg Yolk

The difference between what I would call a pilaf or a risotto is almost the difference between a salad and a soup. Risotto is served pretty wet, with the starch and liquid elements creating a kind of sauce that binds the rice, and risotto can hold its own as an entree. Pilaf has distinct grains and usually accompanies something else. Heather was hungry,...

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Sausage Dumplings in Gravy

I had a blowout on my hands. A band was scheduled to do a one-day session, during which they intended to record and overdub three songs, an ambitious amount of work to do in a day even under normal circumstances. Over the course of a couple hours at the start of the day, two tape machines and the air conditioning unit for studio A all took a dump....

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Parcels

Since she started up with the JP, I have been trying not just to make dinner for Heather, but some kind of portable lunch when possible so she doesn't have to go off script if she gets hungry at work. I know what she likes, but sometimes it's hard to make something portable. Tupperware tubs of soup can be hard to reheat or serve from, and a lot of...

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Food Friday: Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic

Sometimes, especially with female ancestors, we forget that  they may have been involved in a membership organization. Many different kinds of women's auxiliaries, organizations and clubs existed.  One example is found in this community cookbook, simply titled Selected Recipes.This book published by  the Joe Spratt Woman's Relief Corps...

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Food Friday: Roast Rabbit or Squirrel

This Food Friday comes from the cookbook, Pittsburgh Tested Recipes, Prepared by the Ladies of Trinity ME Church (Smallman and Twenty-Fifth Streets). 1885.One of the recipes in this collection is for Roast Rabbit or Squirrel (p. 152). The first thing you might  notice about this recipe is the lack of directions and measurements. While there is...

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