The Cross Country Cookery cookbook says that these tasty tassies come from Jean Slay, Bolling AFB, D.C. Thank you, Jean – these sound lovely!
Dessert
Dessertarata
Who doesn’t love dessert? Here’s an entire cookbook filled with desserts from around the world. The title “Dessertarata” is a play on the famous Desiderata prose poem by Max Ehrman. The poem is at the front of the book. This cookbook is from the New Apostolic Church Youth, St. Louis District 1982. It is softcover,…
Maids of Honor Tarts
At first I thought this recipe from Cross Country Cookery was for cookies. Then I read the recipe for Maids of Honor and figured out they were tarts. And THEN I researched a little and learned the history of these purely English tarts. I think the recipe below is missing one pretty important step. Instead…
The German and Viennese Cookbook 1956
The German and Viennese Cookbook is a pamphlet from the Culinary Arts Institute and was published in 1956. It’s #120 in the “Cooking Magic” series. There were twenty-four pamphlets in this series, and I have two of them; I’ll show you the Italian Cook Book sometime later. The Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago was one…
Plains Pot Pourri Cookbook 1976
In 1976, Jimmy Carter was in between jobs: he had just ended a term as governor of Georgia and had not yet become the 39th President of the United States. The US was celebrating the bicentennial and the Plains Jr. Women’s Club in Carter’s hometown of Plains, GA jumped in on the celebration with Plains…