ottawa foodies

There are already a few posts covering the cook books Ottawa Foodies use and reccomend. but ...

How about the one's (Not found on Amazom) that fill our shelves.... the local, the 'Church Lady', the fundraiser for the ringette team etc etc.

Here is a few examples from me....

This cover is from "A Treasury of Nova Scotia Heirloom Recipes" 1967

They have a section callled "Planked Salmon Cookout" This is way before it's now trendy status.

Anybody got anything 'strange', 'funny' , and/or surrealistic ???

Here's another one...

"From the Highlands and the Sea"

Recipes comipled by The Ingonish Women's Hospital Auxiliary, Cape Breton, NS 1984.

Includes Festive Oyster Pie, Englishtown Fried Smelts and Bannock (Bessie's Recipe).

Betcha there was some jealousy in 'The Auxiliary' when Bessie's Bannock recipe was chosen !!

and one more...

"St. Francis Xavier Parish Commemorative Cookbook" Stoney Creek, ON 1983

Commemorates the parishes Siver Anniverary.

Includes goodies such as "Polka Dot Weiner Pie", "Waikiki Balls", "Savory Crescent Chicken Squares" and "Christmas Morning Wife-Saver".

What ? .... No one has anuy unusual cookbooks ?

Just haven't had a chance to scan the covers yet... give me some time! ;-)

www.collectionscanada.gc.ca Ontario cookbook from 1898

I don't own it, but it is interesting, some of the recipes fit well into modern times, others are questionable

I gotta get my batteries charged for my camera to take some photos of this old cookbook I've got from the 40's or 50's... has recipes on game, fowl, and organ meats that you almost never find in cookbooks anymore. It has a recipe for brains, which I always giggle at due to my love for zombie flicks.

"Brrraaaaaaiiiiinnnns..."

We've got a few older copies of the Purity cookbook. They used to put out a new edition every 5 years or so and we've got a couple from the 50s or 60s

I have a collection of church cookbooks from various communities around Ontario and have a few I've found while travelling--I hit bookshops and flea markets. Some are quite old (my grandmothers) and some are just cool--backwoods Tennessee (I haven't tried the recipe for fricaseed 'possum). I have no pictures I'm technically challenged. They are great fun. I also have several old cookbooks passed on by grandmothers, etc. Also I like those collections newspapers used to put together--I still use the bbq insert from a summer London Free Press circa early 1980's. My favourites are the ones with splotches or so well worn you can barely read them.

I can't say I have any cookbooks that are terribly unusual although like W.C. I have recently discovered that flea markets and used book stores sell some real treasures. I have an old Five Roses cookbook from a thrift shop and a James Beard book that I bought at the Rockliffe book fair a couple of years ago and I love reading them because I feel like I'm visiting the 1950's. The James Beard book I have is called "How to eat better for less money" and did you know that escargots make a nutritious frugal meal? Sounds good to me! I also have a recipe from my Harrowsmith cookbook for turtle soup - I think I'll pass on that one!

Like the others I do have an odd assortment I've gathered over the years. (Sorry no pics, as I too am technically challenged, and yet to buy a digital camera). The ususal assortment of "church-lady" cookbooks, others passed on thru the family (the 20s, 30s, 50s, 60s and 70s), some I bought myself (80s and beyond) and a couple ethnic ones I picked up at bookfairs. All are well worn and loved. Some of them are riot when it comes to the instructions, especially those from the 20s and 30s and preparing meats... ie. kill and pluck chicken. LOL

Has anyone ever used this one ?

From 1965.

It has a foldable cover so you can set the recipe on an angle.

Filled with lts of tried and true basic stuff.

My mother still has this somewhere at home. I always loved the foldable cover. A clever innovation. I think that's where she got her bread recipe that she's been using for the last 50 years.

Cookbooks published by flour companies seem to have been a big thing, which makes perfect sense. My mom swore by the Five Roses cookbook which we now have since she isn't doing much baking anymore. She might have had the Robin Hood one too.

My mother's cooking bible is the Purity flour cookbook from 1960 or so. She also has a Five Roses one, but she much prefers Purity. She also has a huge collection of church and community cookbooks from the valley. Most of the recipes are from her mother, sisters and other relatives so it's like our own family cookbook, full of favourites.
I have a milk cookbook from the 80s that has a folding cover like the one on the Robin Hood cookbook. Great feature, but I rarely use the cookbook.

If anyone has a pre 1960 cookbook put out by one of the flour companies and it has a recipe for oatmeal cookies and if it is not too much trouble, can you PM me the ingredient list? My late mother used to make oatmeal cookies from such a book and I asked her before she died if she still had the book or recipe and she did not. I would love to make them again. They were a very crisp cookie and I believe they also had coconut in them. I'm sorry but I can't remember the name of the company that put the book out.