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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
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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people don't like pineapple. We do eat it, but sometimes I substitute fruit cocktail or other canned fruit.