#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

[lookingjoligood]

Taste and See...Memories of Chicken Casserole

During a recent family gathering, we were discussing one of my favorite topics: food! I reminisced about a delicious casserole I remember enjoying when I was younger. My Mom chimed in, mentioning that the recipe for that dish was actually included in the cookbook published by my former church. I had completely forgotten about the cookbook! (I will include the recipe that I was talking about…

[quixoticgourmet]

Hamburger pate was apparently a thing in the midwest...?

[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

[hotcinnamonsunset]

national night out goodies❣️🍪

[starrynightjars]

[vagueshape]

Oh there must have been BEEF between these two ladies

[tomatoluvr69]

If I wasn’t loosely morally opposed to tiktok, felt ok with showing my real face and voice, and knew I could have the app w/o being hopelessly ruinously addicted to scrolling it…I would love to make vintage recipes like that one guy does, but my schtick would be that I am very calm and not yelling like he does…I would love to do that…I love trying strange and unconventional foods very much and would have so much fun sharing them <3 alas…OH AND I would try to do ancient recipes and stuff from before the 20th century as well

[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…

[beenovel]

Yeah my family is massive as hell. On my mom side there’s my grandma and her five siblings who all had at least two kids. My grandma is the youngest sibling, so her siblings all have kids, grandkids, AND great grandkids. I had to ask if I was related to people at my cousin’s baby shower because I honestly had no idea and everyone was blonde

On my dad’s side he’s the youngest child of two people who were both previously married and had kids in all those marriages. So he has dozens of siblings and he hasn’t even met most of them. I met his older half-sister at the same time as him.

So yeah you walk into either of those family parties and play it cool there’s a 95% no one will notice or they’ll just assume like “oh are you here with ___?”

The "I just pretended I belong here and no one has noticed so far that I'm not supposed to be here" fics are hysterical to me. If someone pretended to be my cousin and showed up in my house they would absolutely get my inattentive ass.