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a little history on the Gilfeather turnip and good variety of recipes

1925 - story of group who help spread the word/practice of canning with price list - vegetables, fruits, meats, jellies

1999 - Local historical society history of community plus recipes with first-person memories of daily life and eating before refrigeration and supermarkets, and with woodstoves. Includes biog portraits of women, mostly born in late 1800s, whose…

1902 - St. J. Woman's Literary Club. Raw potato yeast, scratch mayo, pork chowder, graham muffins, hunter's method of cooking fowl (leave feathers on, salt interior, wrap in brown paper and put in ashes for 1 hour, feathers and skin will fall off),…

First-persons memoir of butter-making in their childhoods: Pond from Richford June 11, 1986 (p. 1-5) and photos of equipment 6-7, Warden from Barnet. May 1985 (8-20)

1990 - Focus on hunted and foraged ingredients. Not much text but good variety recipes with some how-tos, e.g. 98 - how to collect and cook cattail shoots and prepare milkweed (scanned), eels, smelts, trout, big game: bear, moose, venison, foraged…

1963 - Classic Yankee recipes from prolific East Thetford-based author, ingredients, practices including home-churned butter/buttermilk, keeping dishes warm on the back of the stove, store cheese, how to freeze soup outside. Recipes with salt cod,…

variety of apple recipes but nothing on varieties (possibly shows they had become generic by this time)

recipes using "America's incomparable natural Cheddar known country-wide as 'store cheese.'" Recipes include molded ham and cheese salad (15), deviled ham (canned) and cheese casserole (19), curried cheese and lima beans (18), cheese mincemenat…

The Maple Recipe collection offers a unique glimpse at the variety in maple sugar and maple syrup use over the last half-century, as it is prominently featured in a range of dishes, from the sweet to the savory. The collection includes entrees, side…