Send it on. Need some substance to the chuckwagon in New York!!! Jeanne/jmh --- On Mon, 9/19/11, Alice Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alice Allen <[email protected]> > Subject: [TTTP] NY Cookbook > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, September 19, 2011, 12:38 AM > 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 >

This sure doesn't look like the cookbook we're used to these days. Not indexed, and no list of ingredients first. Interesting. I'll start typing tomorrow (hopefully), my eyes are starting to cross. Alice On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Jeanne Hicks <[email protected]> wrote: > Send it on.  Need some substance to the chuckwagon in New York!!! > > Jeanne/jmh > > > --- On Mon, 9/19/11, Alice Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Alice Allen <[email protected]> >> Subject: [TTTP] NY Cookbook >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Monday, September 19, 2011, 12:38 AM >> 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 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >