Category Archives: cookbooks

“Our Favorite Recipes” for German Potato Salad

Posted on February 27, 2011 by murrayewv

One of my mother’s oldest and most favorite cookbooks is written by the Ladies of St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church in West Bend Wisconsin in 1949 and is titled “Our Favorite Recipes”.  This cookbook cost $1.50 and 15 cents for … Continue reading →

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Pork Stew (Ragout de Porc)

Posted on January 2, 2011 by murrayewv

This stew was a great favorite of my brother Joe.  I believe my parents often substituted saurkraut for the red cabbage.  The recipe comes from a cookbook my father labeled as his favorite- The Ethnic Epicure published by the Wauwatosa … Continue reading →

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Swedish Apricot Nut Bread

Posted on December 29, 2010 by murrayewv

This is another great recipe from Mimi Sheraton’s great Christmas cookbook, “Visions of Sugarplums”. I have made this bread (which is more like a blonde fruit cake) almost every year for 25 years.  I regularly double the recipe.  The cake … Continue reading →

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Bourbon Balls

Posted on December 24, 2010 by murrayewv

I love these cookies which are like a rich no-bake candy.  They are pretty fast and easy and the recipe can be doubled easily to give them away.  This is a recipe that was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s … Continue reading →

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