Food Friday: Directory and Cook Book Maryville, Missouri

from the collection of Gena Philibert-OrtegaThe Directory and Cook Book compiled by the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Missouri is unique. It's the first one that I have seen that has "Directory" in the title. Many of these community cookbooks are directories of the recipe contributors and the  local businesses who have ads in the cookbook....

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Food Friday: Oh the Things you can do with Fritos

Today's Food Friday will be a little different. It contains no genealogical significance except for maybe your World War II era family liked to pick up recipe booklets and experiment. And just maybe those experiments found their way into the everyday food of your family and it's only when you try to serve that food at a potluck do people question how...

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Food Friday: Sandwiches from 1902

Who doesn't like a great sandwich? I personally think sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them but I digress. Today's recipe/s comes from the Souvenir Cookbook of the F.K.A. (Free Kindergarten Association) of Columbus, Georgia. Containing Favorite Recipes of Various Notable Columbus Housewives (1902). Though this example doesn't show any,...

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Food Friday: Texas Style Beans and Occupations

Today's recipe is from a cookbook that isn't particularly old; most likely it was printed in 1992. Eclectic: A Cookbook by the Kenner Professional Woman's Association is unique in that it is a professional woman's association which means that in addition to the names listed there are also the names of the recipe contributor's employer.One important...

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