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. These instructions from 1898 provide a foundation for making a soup that can  include a "turkey skeleton."

This is from  The Puritan Cook-Book. Composed of Contributed Recipes. Edited by The Loyalists and The Sisters of Dorcas, Sunday School Classes in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church (Rochester, NY) available on Google Books.

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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 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.

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Food Friday: Pickles for a Thousand of Your Closest Friends

I like pickles. I think that's probably obvious by now since I have spotlighted quite a few  pickled recipes. It's not unusual in community cookbooks to see recipes that are meant to serve a crowd. That makes sense if you think about it because many of these books are published  by church groups and they would have occasion for serving large groups at weddings, funerals and other events.

Now in today's Food Friday recipe, the crowd gets a little on the ridiculous side. This recipe is for one thousand. Yep, that's a lot of pickles. Now the author doesn't specify if this is a thousand people (which I assume) or a thousand pickles. She (I'm assuming it's a woman but we only have the initials) also doesn't say how many cucumbers to use.

But if you ever have a need to make a mess of pickles, this might be the recipe for you. This is from the Mother Hubbard's Cupboard. Published by The Young Ladies' Society First Baptist Church. Rochester, New York. 1880. Page 68.

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