Food Friday: A British Dessert Treat

Have you tried any foods your ancestor would have ate? Now, no fair if you are deeply entrenched in that ancestral culture and have that food all of the time. I'm talking to those who currently do not eat anything their  ancestors would have passed down, have never tried it, don't have a grandma to cook it for them, nada.Yesterday, I...

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Food Friday: Food a la Dorcas

This week's Food Friday is from the  Dorcas Society cookbook, A Book of Dorcas Dishes. Family Recipes Contributed by the Dorcas Society of Hollis and Buxton. Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Maine, 1911). Kate was also the founder of this particular Dorcas Society chapter. Some may recognize her name as the author of Rebecca of Sunnybook Farm.This...

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Food Friday: Pigs in a Blanket (Sort of)

Sometimes foods that have a familiar name might not be what we expect. In my book From the Family Kitchen I wrote about American Chop Suey and how most regions in the United States have a version of this dish but call it by different names.I found another example today in my copy of  Presbyterian Cook Book. The Women's Society of...

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Food Friday: Gold Medal Sour Milk Doughnuts by Unknown

I'm lucky because my friends and family know my interest in researching female ancestors and the material culture that goes with it, items like quilts and recipes. My friend and fellow genealogist and author Jean Wilcox Hibben of Circlemending gave me this recipe that fell out of one of her mom's cookbooks. She knows it's not her mom's handwriting...

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Food Friday: Fried Green Tomatoes and 1921 Automobiles

For this Food Friday I am featuring one of my favorite dishes, Fried Green Tomatoes.This recipe from the Women's Guild of of the Second Church of West Newton (1921) is entitled Recipes Tested by the Families of the Parish and Compiled by the Women's Guild. It is found in the Cookbooks and Home Economics  section of Internet Archive.What's interesting...

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