Are you a foodie and like to cook? Do you enjoy finding historical recipes to make, or have a chuckle over? This historical Baptist Cook Book fits the bill: it teaches recipes for obscure foods like sweetbreads, tongue, liver and veal, “scallops” numerous vegetables into creamy cheese sauces(!), includes pages of desserts, and includes Mom’s speciality: Moonshine Pudding. And check out the charming ads!
I have to thank the Weston A. Price Foundation website for the link to this historical cookbook. It’s valuable because most of us didn’t grow up eating organ meats like liver and sweetbreads (that’s brain, to you), much less knowing how to cook them!
And why eat organ meats like brain, liver, kidneys, and tongue? They are a nutritional treasure trove of vitamins and minerals. Most of us need more vitamins and minerals!! Dr. Price completed a worldwide nutrition study, finding that traditional food menus of many different world cultures were ten times higher in vitamin A than the 1930’s American menu. See this full article about liver, and why even conventional liver (grain fed, the usual) may benefit you when part of your monthly menu.
The Weston Price Foundation supports great nutrition, through whole and traditional foods, including healthy fats. They also support traditional preparation methods of grains, beans and nuts for enhanced nutrition and absorption.
Here are some free recipes for Corning Beef or Corning Tongues (similar to corned beef), and corning other meat. Ugh… Where do I find saltpetre (or saltpeter)? Isn’t this the thing that made Bugs Bunny’s mouth scrunch up?
There is an old, free recipe for Fig Pudding, just like the Christmas song, “Give us some figgie pudding.” It sounds very good to me~
I am wondering if “sweet milk” in the 2nd recipe means condensed, sweetened milk. (If you know, please tell me in the comments…)
The cook book even includes 1800’s ads, just as charming, too ~ There are historic ads for stoves, hats, cleaners, etc. Here is one for Wm. H. Rankin’s furniture:
There is another recipe here that I would LOVE to try – it includes eggs, cream, sugar, vanilla, peaches and a “liberal portion of the moonshine.” As in whiskey. As in hooch. Sounds like just the thing on a very cold day in Winter. Thank you to Mrs. Edna Brown, who donated the recipe. (see below)
Here is the link to the free Baptist Ladies Cook Book, circa 1895, from Monmouth, Illinois, on the Weston Price Foundation website. I hope you enjoyed it.
