Gosh, send him my way, I have a lot of straightening up to do. No way my husband would straighten my books. I don't want him near my stuff. Will be interesting to see what you get for recipes out of that old book. I have an old one at home in AZ too. I ran across something yesterday.... buckle, I never heard the word buckle in reference to a crisp, cobbler, so what is a buckle and what part of the country do they make buckles? g On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Alice Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday my husband was straightening one of our bookshelves and he > found an old cookbook from the Ladies' Debt Aid Society of the First > Methodist Episcopal Church in Rome NY, copyright 1913.  There's even > an ad for Jello (written Jell-O).  I didn't know Jello had existed > back in 1913. > > I can start typing up some of the recipes, and include data of > possible genealogical interest.  There's a ton of Committees, > including one for each type of food represented in the cookbook.  The > Committee people would be of interest. Plus there were some penned in > notes by the owner of the cookbook which might be of interest, > although her handwriting is difficult to read.  She should have been a > census taker. > > This book was part of the stuff I brought home from my genealogy > society a couple of years ago, but I'm not sure how it ended up in our > bookshelf in the living room when all the rest of the stash is here in > the family room, along with my computer, genealogy files, etc. > > Alice > SA for Kansas > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Tschüß, Gail "Be who you are and say what you want because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."