Food Friday: Tacos with Ketchup from Illinois

Oh tacos, our family loves them. We often have a taco night where we set up a taco bar with everything that can make a taco great like meat, lettuce, tomatoes, cilantro, onions, guacamole, and sour cream. And of course, glorious shredded cheddar cheese.Now, everyone has an idea of what makes a great taco. I have spent almost my entire...

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Food Friday: Pass the Root Beer and Japanese Chop Suey

Today's Food Friday comes from the Woman's City Club Cook Book. Compiled by the Library Committee of the Woman's City Club of Chicago, 1923. This book is available on Internet Archive's Cookbooks and Home Economics Collection.This cookbook provides us names associated with recipes and no other genealogically relevant information.It...

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Food Friday: Faux Recipes

Faux recipes  often find their way into community cookbooks. Recipes such as How to Cook Your Husband have been found in community cookbooks for decades.Spoonful of Joy by the First Baptist Church of Bessemer Alabama has several of these types of recipes. There's a few that involve food while others dictate secrets to a better life.So...

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Vintage Recipe Booklets: Jell-O Ice Cream Powder

From the collection of Gena Philibert-Ort...

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Food Friday: Doris Keeton's Toast Rolls with Ham and Asparagus

I am always looking for a great book to read. Recently I read about the book The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan. This is the story of the women who worked at Oak Ridge, Tennessee on a then secret project. They later learned that they had been working on the Manhattan Project.I...

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