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

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),…

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…

1976 - (second printing, 1970 original) Fundraiser for school in S. Wallingford includes ads for local dairies, recipes include frozen Hawaiian punch concentrate, canned clams, jell-o salads, American chop suey and hamburg chow mein (both with soy),…

1940 - compiled by women's club and includes ads for dairy/milk. Interesting mix of traditional from-scratch recipes and recipes depending on packaged products . Recipes include Kool-Aid as well as grape juice made from mashed grapes; Spry pie shell…

1941 - Pixley (real name Helen Elizabeth Tyler) includes a bit of Vermont history/lore - barrels of pork in brine in cellar, pie for breakfast, butternuts. Recipes in prose include “no” parsnip chowder, salt salmon with cream, hasty pudding, sour…