Choice and Tested Recipes

Authors

The October Committee of Christ Church Guild, Cuba, NY

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Description

Ladies of Cuba, NY, have joined forces to contribute some of their best-loved recipes in this 86-page cookbook from the World War I era. A journey back in time representing food staples (e.g., brown bread, tomato soup, suet pudding, boiled salad dressing) as well as local businesses (advertisements appear throughout the recipe book), Choice and Tested Recipes is dedicated “to those ‘Plucky Housewives’ who master their work instead of allowing it to master them.”

Beyond recipes that highlight some of the area’s finest ingredients (Jell-o from LeRoy and Royal baking powder from Brooklyn, NY), Choice and Tested Recipes offers a course-specific quote at the beginning of each section (e.g., John Heywood’s “Would you both eat your cake and have your cake?” for the section on cakes), advice for remedying household challenges (e.g., removing old tea/coffee stains, healing bruises, adding nutrients to and removing slugs from rose bushes, cleaning up while one works), and additional concoctions for healing those in the “sick room.”

Choice and Tested Recipes is organized by course, with a general table of contents on the last page, including breads, soups, meats, pies and puddings, conserves and jellies, and beverages. The recipes are simple, written in short paragraph format, and reveal a bit of each contributing housewife’s personality. For instance Miss Wright’s Clubhouse Sandwiches are “fit for a prince,” Mrs. C.A. Wheeler deems her Smothered Ham “a delicious dish,” and Mrs. G.E.P.’s tomato bisque recipe warns fellow housewives to “stir tomatoes slowly into the milk; if the reverse is done it will curdle.” Bon appetit!

(summary written by Kim Hoffman)

ISBN

9781493634026

Publication Date

1-1-1916

Publisher

Milne Library Publishing

City

Geneseo, NY

Comments

October 24, 2013

Recommended Citation

The October Committee of Christ Church Guild, Cuba, NY, "Choice and Tested Recipes" (1916). Genesee Valley Historical Reprints. 21.
https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/historical-reprints/21

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