#church cookbook

[adtothebone]

This is the first church cookbook I’ve found with a TEFA* lady on the cover. Methodists are sexy!

*Topless Except For Apron

Cooking is Fun — Sponsored by the Organizations of Calvary Methodist Church in Lewiston, Maine 1947

[cantoufc]

Cornflake Chicken Casserole Recipe Chicken is baked in a creamy sauce and topped with crunchy cornflakes cereal for a quick and easy weeknight dinner. 2 cans cream of chicken soup, 1 can sliced water chestnuts drained, 1/2 cup finely chopped onion, 1/2 cup mayonnaise, 1 cup cornflakes cereal, 2 tablespoons butter melted or as needed, 3 cups chopped cooked chicken or more to taste, 1 cup finely chopped celery

[trlevy]

Mini Ham Loaves Small meat loaves made of ground ham and pork are baked with a sweet and tangy brown sugar sauce. This vintage family recipe is a great way to use up Easter leftovers. 1 cup cider vinegar, 1/2 cup water, 1 pound ground ham, 2 eggs lightly beaten, 1 tablespoon dry mustard, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 cups cracker crumbs, 1 pound ground pork

[gutsfics]

Patsy when am i supposed to put the vanilla in Patsy. Patsy where does the vanilla go. Patsy. Patsy please.

[chr0n1c-ag0ny]

Fyodor/Nikolai/Sigma, domestic au, but they are painfully slavic and living their best lives, is something that can be so personal.

(this post took forever cause I essentially had to make it twice. I didn't look at what blog I originally posted this to the first time round. shoot me)

[planet4546b]

moms and grandmas who have cute little containers filled with index cards of recipes are actually morally correct in the age of the internet

[starrynightjars]

[hotcinnamonsunset]

national night out goodies❣️🍪

[vagueshape]

Oh there must have been BEEF between these two ladies

[twomothsholdinghands]

My recommendations are Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters and Heirloom Baking With the Brass Sisters. They’re incredibly well-written and have a great recipe selection, but their main draw is that they’re based on historical family recipes, so nearly everything can be made without modern kitchen appliances!

If nothing else, please try making their banana bread recipe. It’s legitimately the best I’ve ever tasted

The Dungeon Meshi renaissance is making me want to share the resources that taught me how to cook.

Don’t forget, you can check out cookbooks from the library!

Smitten Kitchen: The rare recipe blog where the blog part is genuinely good & engaging, but more important: this is a home cook who writes for home cooks. If Deb recommends you do something with an extra step, it’s because it’s worth it. Her recipes are reliable & have descriptive instructions that walk you through processes. Her three cookbooks are mostly recipes not already on the site, & there are treasures in each of them.

Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables by Joshua McFadden: This is a great guide to seasonal produce & vegetable-forward cooking, and in addition to introducing me to new-to-me vegetables (and how to select them) it quietly taught me a number of things like ‘how to make a tasty and interesting puréed soup of any root veggie’ and ‘how to make grain salads’ and ‘how to make condiments’.

Grains for Every Season: Rethinking Our Way With Grains by Joshua McFadden: in addition to infodumping in grains, this codifies some of the formulas I picked up unconsciously just by cooking a lot from the previous book. I get a lot of mileage out of the grain bowl mix-and-match formulas (he’s not lying, you can do a citrus vinaigrette and a ranch dressing dupe made with yogurt, onion powder, and garlic powder IN THE SAME DISH and it’s great.)

SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT by Samin Nosrat: An education in cooking theory & specific techniques. I came to it late but I think it would be a good intro book for people who like to front-load on theory. It taught me how to roast a whole chicken and now I can just, like, do that.

I Dream Of Dinner (so you don’t have to) by Ali Slagle: Ok, look, an important part of learning to cook & cooking regularly is getting kinda burned out and just wanting someone else to tell you what to make. These dinners work well as written and are also great tweakable bases you can use as a starting place.

If you have books or other resources that taught you to cook or that you find indispensable, add ‘em on a reblog.

[joodeegemstone]

anyone else still have an old church lady casserole they make as an adult for nostalgic reasons

[sukiwriter]

Books are the Best Souvenirs

One of the souvenirs I most love to bring back from a trip is books. Whether it’s in a local bookshop, the tourist traps or at a historical site/museum, I can always find books that, unlike T-shirts and shot glasses, provide me with the essences of the place I’m vacationing. And the best souvenir is the one that brings the memories of the fun and adventures you had on your trip. On a recent trip…

[gutsfics]

oooooo there was some Drama in the relief society when this cookbook was made, i just know it. FIVE different recipes for divinity and one of them is called "PERFECT divinity"??? there was blood in the mormon church

[questionableadvice]

~ Semper Fidelis Cookbook, First Congregational Church (Stockton, Calif.). Semper Fidelis Circle, 1907

[cryptotheism]

Charles Entertainment Cheese canonically grew up in a place called St. Marinara's Orphanage.

Given the etymology, we can assume that St. Marinara is Catholic, and was canonized by the Catholic church at some point.

Additionally, the name "Marinara" in reference to tomato sauce tracks back to the 17th century, with the first official cookbook for Marinara sauce published in 1692. It means "seafaring" as the new-world tomato was commonly eaten by Italian sailors.

Given the lack of canon information from Chuck E. Cheese, we have two possible etymologies. Either the sauce was named for the saint, or the saint for the sauce.

I am deciding that the saint was named for the sauce. I am also deciding, that she operated an orphanage and, as punishment for running up debts, was broken on the wheel, and rolled through the streets of Venice to crush tomatoes. I say this because I enjoy the idea that a young Chuck E. Cheese grew up around extremely violent pasta-based saint iconography.

[tj-crochets]

Here's the recipe for the chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies I make for pretty much every celebratory event! They are the first thing I ever learned how to cook or bake, and the first recipe I ever memorized. I have probably made more of these cookies than any other kind of cookie, ever, by such a wide margin I don't think that'll ever change lol

Grandma’s Not-Very-Secret Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Cookie Recipe

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