Favorite Recipes from Quilters: More Than 900 Delectable Dishes - Softcover

Stoltzfus, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561483532 ISBN 13: 9781561483532

Publisher: Good Books, 1992

Synopsis

More than 900 favorite recipes from quilters across North America! From Ham Loaf to Peach Stuffed Chicken Breasts, from Sourdough Dinner Rolls to Raisin Bran Muffins, from Cranberry Coffee Cake to Oatmeal Brownies, from Beef and Lentil Salad to Baked Onion Soup, and from Pineapple Bread Pudding to Fudge Pie, this wonderful collection mirrors the lives of quilters far and wide. Many quilters are devoted homemakers who enjoy cooking almost as much as quilting. Many other quilters develop recipes and invent shortcuts to decrease food preparation time, freeing themselves to spend more time by their quilt frames and sewing machines. This easy-to-use cookbook is packed with their simple and elegant recipes. Also includes more than 100 anecdotes about cooking and quilting from the lives of these remarkable women and men. "More than 900 homestyle recipes plus some reminiscing here and there makes this cookbook seem like a round-robin exchange with old friends." —Quilters Newsletter Magazine

About this title

About the Author

Louise Stoltzfus learned the art of quilting and cooking from her mother, Miriam Stoltzfus. While she puts occasional stitches in one or another of the many quilts her mother always seems to have in frame, Stoltzfus regrettably seldom finds time for quilting.

      With Phyllis Pellman Good she has co-authored two other cookbooks, The Central Market Cookbook and The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals.

      Stoltzfus is an editor for Good Books and also serves as director of The People’s Place Gallery in Intercourse, Pennsylvania. She lives in a restored rowhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Introduction

Amid the rush and haste of life at the close of the 20th century, many of us seek rest and quiet in community life. We look for community in churches, in neighborhoods, in places of work and in common goals and activities. Quilters find community in common goals and activities. We talk of needles and thread, fabric and stitches, and bedcovers and pieces of art. We gather in homes, in fabric shops, in quilt guilds, and in large convention centers to share our ideas and projects.

Many of us are also homemakers. We approach cooking with many shades of intensity. Some of us treat cooking and quilting both as high art forms. Some of us work hard to prepare varied and healthful meals for our busy families and only quilt occasionally. Others experience ongoing disasters because we become engrossed in quilting and forget the carrots or potatoes or beans.

This amazing collection of recipes from a community best known for its gifts with cloth and design includes submissions from Irvine, California, to New York s Upper West Side; from Fruitland Park, Florida, to Honolulu; and from Williams Lake, British Columbia, to Florence, South Carolina.

The recipes reflect a diverse group of people whose primary common thread is quilting. It is, in fact, a passion for threads and fabric, for templates and patterns, and for sewing machines and quilt frames that draws quilters into community. We know the best fabric stores. We share patterns. We generally piece by machine and quilt by hand. While we attend guild meetings and quilting bees, many of us also spend long hours at home stitching alone. We are first and foremost quilters.

Each of the recipes has been identified with the submitter s name and place of residence. In addition, most submitters also listed the name of the quilt pattern which they were working with at the time they submitted recipes. Those patterns are listed under their names and provide a kaleidoscope of original patterns and homemade names along with many familiar and frequently used pattern names and designs.

To the quilting community I extend warm thanks for your gracious sharing of recipes and stories. I also thank you for your willingness to serve as recipe testers when other pursuits and interests must surely have kept you busy. This book truly belongs to you the quilting community.

Louise Stoltzfus

Edition details

• Publisher: Good Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1561483532
• ISBN 13: 9781561483532
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 329