The cookbook which we sold for $10 each.

What a wonderful idea! Everything looks marvelous!

What a great way to launch a book and celebrate a community. The food looks wonderful.

How can we get a cookbook?

dandyrandylou -- we ordered a limited number and they all have been spoken for . . . but sometimes you speak and don't follow through so if some people who haven't paid don't pick theirs up we may have some for sale. I can put you on our wait list. They are $10 but we need an additional $5 for shipping. Do you want to be on the wait list?

It's been my experience that these church or other small group organizations produce some very excellent cookbooks filled with wonderful recipes. These have been the source of some of my favorite recipes!! I'm not at all surprised that all are spoken for - I would have surely signed up for one if I was a member!!

Martha, would you please put me on that list, too? I love cookbooks, specially group and/or area cookbooks. I co-chaired getting one done for a local arts and crafts co-op we used to have here, it was quite an experience! How I wish someone in our group had thought of doing something like y'all did, that was a wonderful idea! ! ! !

Rusty

What a neat idea and the food looks delicious, too! I collect cookbooks;please add me to your list.

Sure Rusty, I'll let you know as soon as I find out. It's a great book especially for the price and it has 300 recipes in it so it's not a whimpy cookbook!

Thank you, Martha!

Rusty

Nearly 40 years ago, I helped do a cookbook as a permanent fundraiser for the Winston Churchill Memorial at Westminster College in Fulton, MO. The Memorial is a Christopher Wren designed church (Church of St Mary of Aldermanbury) was badly bombed during WWII (the original having been destroyed in the Great Fire of London) and was donated to the college to commemorate Winston Churchill's famous Iron Curtain address at the college. The church was reconstructed according to Wren's designs and much of it is original. I had no connection to the college, but the then president of the Jr League in St Louis did and asked for volunteer recipe testers to help and I volunteered.

We tested every single recipe submitted, even our own recipes. We had weekly "tastings" where we brought several items each time (assigned different weeks). It was a year long project and then another year to get it typeset and printed. I got mine out tonight and looked at the recipes and realized how much our tastes have change in 40 years. SO many of the recipes were very rich and cream and butter were used with abandon! No one cooks or eats that way anymore! My favorite recipe has always been The Queen Mum's Favorite Chocolate Cake. The recipe was given by her cook to one of the people responsible for the memorial. It takes forever to make, and requires a king's ransom of good chocolate, but lawdy, it is delicious! She supposedly had it for tea everyday, and if you do, you will soon have her shape!

Working on this was kind of an odd happenstance. A few years later, it was discovered that the first members of my father's family to come to the US were married in that church in London before traveling with William Penn to the US. They were not Quakers but travelled with the Quaker colony. Our family association has a reunion at the college every two years. I've never been able to go as it's a few days before I leave for the Vineyard and it's just too much driving. But what irony that I worked on that cookbook and a few of my and my mother's recipes are in the book, her surname being that of the couple married in that church.

Martha, did you all test the recipes or just trust your members?

What a wonderful post and great photos too! Thank you for sharing!!!!

Smiles,

Sooz

lizabeth gardener -- I will add you to the list.

Anglo, we trusted our members. Lots we had tasted at potlucks and parties and such. But even without tasting, it was almost a 9 month project from the time we started collecting receipes until we got the book.

Martha Scott: Yes, please add me to your wait list, and thank you.

Anglo, I have that cookbook! Bought it at a flea market because we had been there! Wow -- I'm impressed!

Martha, our lives have many things that have crossed! Try the Queen Mum's Chocolate Cake - it's fabulous!

I certainly will! And yes, Anglo, they certainly do!

How did you get the covers printed?

We used Morris Books to publish the cookbook. They were great to work with, their product is top notch. The picture on the front is our church, in water color.

Thanks, Martha. It is very pretty!

dandyrandyandlou, lizabeth gardener, rusty. We have some cookbooks! They are $10 each plus $5 for mailing. I don't know how to do messages on this site so if you will email me at linderhof1208@gmail.com, I will send you the information you need to get your own cookbook!

Martha, you've got mail!

Rusty

Got it -- will get it out as soon as I receive it.

I think church cookbooks are the best. A wonderful way to let folks sample some of the food. Very nice.

Sue

When we traveled a lot, a local cookbook was usually my souvenir if I could find one. It is fascinating to see the same recipe move across the country. Sometimes it was exactly the same and sometimes it would change to use local ingredients. Then there were always a few that were only in that region.

Sometimes I go to estate sales and I have picked up different ones there.

And S_7bAL, the time the cookbook was written too makes a difference for ones from the 60s are different than ones from today! Back in the day, there was a lot of "margarine" -- now it's only butter!

Martha, Just sent an e-mail. Thanks!

If I cook when my oldest grandson is coming, I have to use dairy-free margarine anyway. He is very allergic to milk. Epi Pen-trip to ER allergic. Not all margarine is milk free by the way. Most contain some form of dairy. I just sub either one in equal amounts.

Martha,

Please add me to the wait list. I love local cookbooks!

I will add you to the wait list -- I have 3 that have not paid nor contacted me and I have contacted them again. So I MAY have 3!