The Best of Food Friday 2012

On the eve of a  new year, I thought I would recap the most popular Food Friday posts for 2012. State Library of Queensland, Australia via Flickr the CommonsThey are:Turkey Skeleton Soup (Nov 23  ) Idiot Salad (Oct 26)Out of Vermont Kitchens-War Cake (October 12) Beef Tomato Gravy from the Los Angeles Times (September 14) Evansville...

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Food Friday Follow-Up: German Potato Salad

This last Food Friday I posted a recipe for German Potato Salad. Lucky for me, my friend and fellow genealogist Gary Clark of PhotoTree.com tried the recipe.Here's what he had to say:(c) 2012 Gary Clark, PhotoTree.com. Used with Permission"Loving German potato salad as I do, it was a no-brainer to give the recipe in your December 28th blog...

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Food Friday: German Potato Salad

Have  holiday leftovers? If you're like us, you may be eating countless ham sandwiches and need something to add to that. How about German Potato Salad?from the collection of Gena Philibert-OrtegaToday's recipe comes from Favourite Recipes from  the Motley Lionettes in Motley Minnesota.This 1980 cookbook includes a...

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Food Friday: Christmas Fruit Cake

Every year I hear people complaining about fruit cake and every year no one shares a slice with me. Yes, I like fruit cake. When I think of fruit cake I remember an old neighbor who would serve it with tea in a cute tea set complete with a knitted tea cozy.So here's not one but two fruit cake recipes for you from Recipes from Our...

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Food Friday: Arroz Con Jocoque

There's no doubt that community cookbooks are a source for researching women but there are other types of cookbooks that provide valuable information like  names and addresses. On the GenealogyBank blog I wrote about newspaper recipe contests and the resulting cookbooks that included women's names. The modern magazine Taste of Home is another...

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Win My Book and Money! Archives.com Recipe Contest

Official Submission PageThe holidays aren't complete without that special family recipe. Archives wants to celebrate your family's favorite holiday recipes. Between now and 12:00pm (PST) on December 21, 2012, enter the Archives Family Recipes Contest for a chance to win great prizes: 1st Prize: $300 2nd Prize: $2003rd Prize: $100First, second, and...

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Food Friday: Cookie Recipes from the Mothers of World War II

Today is  the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor so it seemed fitting to provide recipes from a cookbook published by the Mothers of World War II (1954).The address found on the cover is that of their nationwide headquarters in 1954.From the collection of Gena Philibert-OrtegaAs with any recipe from an older cookbook make sure you...

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Food Friday: Turkey Skeleton Soup

Here we are, the day after. Today may find you in a quandary over what you should do with all of those leftovers. We are pretty boring and typically in the days after Thanksgiving we have leftovers and then turkey sandwiches and turkey enchiladas.In case you want to do something with that turkey carcass, consider making a soup....

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Happy Thanksgiving!

From the collection of Gena Philibert-Ort...

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Food Friday: Thanksgiving Edition with Shrimp Cocktail

Next week is the big day. It's time for Thanksgiving and the all you can eat buffet that many of us are cooking for our families.What are you cooking for Thanksgiving? Is it different than what you had last year? What traditions do you have around the holiday?At my house Thanksgiving varies slightly depending on if I'm cooking...

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Food Friday: Ice Cream Muffins

One of the things I love about community cookbooks is when the owner has made comments beside a recipe or has stuck in additional recipes either by using them as a bookmark or adhering them to the pages of the cookbook.Back in September I spotlighted a jello recipe from the community cookbook compiled by the Reading (Kansas) Women's Club....

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Food Friday: Idiot Salad

The Beta Sigma Phi's have several different types of cookbooks. This one, The Beta Sigma Phi International Cookbook. Salads including Appetizers includes 2000 recipes.The Beta Sigma Phi website explains about their history and about their founding by Walter W. Ross, "In 1931, during the Great Depression, there was a need for an organization...

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Food Friday: What's Cookin'? Cheese and Fish Salad

Today's recipe comes from a California cookbook that really isn't a community cookbook but it does contain great information about the women whose recipes are spotlighted.What's Cookin' by Ruth Gordon is "a collection of Menus (sic) and recipes that have appeared in the Santa Ynez Valley News, Solvang, California. All these recipes are original or...

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Join Me for a Webinar This Thursday

You are invited to attend our FREE online UGA Virtual Chapter Meeting Speaker – Gena Philibert-Ortega Topic – The Secret Lives of Women: Research Female Ancestors Using the Sources They Left Behind Thursday, October 18, 2012, 7:00 pm MDT @ virtual.ugagenealogy.org Women ancestors can be difficult to trace--but not impossible....

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Food Friday: Out of Vermont Kitchens

One of the great benefits of traveling is picking up community cookbooks to add to my collection. On a trip to Illinois I picked up the very large Out of Vermont Kitchens. Compiled by Trinity Mission of Trinity Church, Rutland, Vermont and the Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church Burlington, Vermont. 1939.This cookbook is 400 pages...

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Food Friday: Reading Women's Club Jello a la 1976

You have to love the bicentennial celebrations here in the United States. It's during that magic year of 1976 that towns, organizations, and groups published all types of histories and even cookbooks.Enter the Reading Women's Club (Reading, Kansas) Cookbook. This 1976 cookbook published by the Reading Women's Civil Club includes a list of members,...

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Food Friday: Beef Tomato Gravy from the LA Times

Today's Food Friday comes from a website that I LOVE but quite frankly didn't think included any community cookbook like cookbooks. Well, let me explain. This cookbook isn't a community cookbook, but it does include the names of women and even street addresses .Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project is sponsored by Michigan State...

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Food Friday: Ham Croquettes and Liverwoerst from New York

I can't even begin to tell you how much I love community cookbooks. Yes, there's the interesting recipes but it's so much more than that. I really like the idea of getting a sense of what life was like during the time my ancestor walked the earth. Kind of like if you crossed genealogy with the movie Somewhere in Time.Today's cookbook compiled by The...

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Travel Meets Genealogy, Part 2: Running Away to Home

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