My Mom's Recipe Box: 80 Years of Collected Midwest Recipes

Keleher, Mike; Keleher, Delora

ISBN 10: 130463325X / ISBN 13: 9781304633255

Published by Lulu.com, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Mom's Recipe Box: 80 Years of Collected Midwest Recipes
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 130463325X
• ISBN 13: 9781304633255
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

My Mom's Recipe Box contains Midwestern recipes collected by my mother over an 80 year time span. Living in small towns from the 1930's to 2024, my mom Delora, regularly traded and swapped recipes with other cooks, wives, daughters and a few men. Writing out and handing over a favorite recipe, was a large part of the social scene around holidays, local banquets, church functions, school dinners, Cub Scout meetings, graduations, weddings and even funeral luncheons (they still serve a great funeral lunch in my home town!) Admiring other cooks prepared dishes and swapping recipes, was akin to acknowledging an exceptional culinary feat in our small town. Pride travelled with those 3x5 cards! There were a lot of exceptional cooks who swapped their best heirloom grade recipes, and next to eating those dishes, sharing them was heady stuff! Delora's double sized Recipe Box contains handwritten 3x5 cards, notepad pages, yellowed newspaper clippings and even ingredients scratched out on deposit slips for banks that no longer exist. Reading through them one can see those recipes were lovingly prepared for several generations of mid-westerner families and are now being passed along to you- and can be shared once again instead of lying dormant in a dusty old bulging recipe box. This is a cookbook full of charm and love, and is a tribute to those who passed their best recipes on to Delora across eight decades.