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| Not a pretty book |
I’m
amazed that organizational fundraiser cookbooks, composed of recipes submitted
by the members, have been around for so long. Good Eats is the name of a
cookbook published by the Rebekah Assembly of Idaho in 1929, the year my mother
and her first husband were married. I don’t remember her using it, but it’s
well-worn and falling apart, so obviously she had used it and quite a lot. Perhaps
it was the only cookbook she had when she started married life. And filed
inside its pages are various clipped recipes. It’s another treasure trove of
vintage cooking.
As
I looked through Good Eats, several simple recipes took my eye.
DELICIOUS
DESSERT
Whip
cream, add peanut brittle ground and pour over angel food cake.
HEAVENLY
DELIGHT
1
pt. of whipped cream, 1 t vanilla, 1 sponge cake crumbled, 1 20-cent can maraschino
cherries, 50-cents worth of English walnuts, chopped. Mix cake, cherries, and
nuts, and last the whipped cream. Pack in freezer for 4 hours, without turning
crank, and serve on slice of pineapple.
PINEAPPLE
TAPIOCA
Soak
1 cup of pearl tapioca overnight. In the morning drain and put it in a double
boiler with 1 ½ c hot water, ½ t salt, 1 c sugar, ½ can shredded pineapple, the
juice of 1 lemon and 1 large orange. Cook until clear, fold in the
stiffly-beaten whites of 2 eggs, cook 2 minutes longer and serve cold, with or
without cream, as preferred.
Or
– you could just add an 8-ounce can of crushed pineapple, drained, to prepared
tapioca pudding. Chop up some maraschino cherries and add those, too, if you
like. KW
2 comments:
Love the twenty cent cherries and fifty cents worth of walnuts!! I have to say, none of these offerings sound too appetizing to me. I guess I'm not much of a fan of maraschino cherries or pineapple. But what a treasure that cookbook is!
I thought the recipes were fun for their vintage value. How about the one where you pack it in the freezer -- and then it says, "don't turn the crank." Of course, no one had a freezer in those days, so she froze it in the ice cream freezer! Rather ingenious, when you think about it.
A lot of people don't like pineapple. We do eat it, but sometimes I substitute fruit cocktail or other canned fruit.
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