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 Ladies of the Church of the Good Shepherd from Binghamton, New York (1896) is available for free from Google Books.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have a ton of names in it. But look what it does have.
A history of the church
Advice on food
Wonderful advertisements
Oh yes and recipes including one passed down from ancestors.
