On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 11:24:15 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 8/18/2016 8:27 PM, lenona wrote:
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> >> Do you know about Cooking with Clara?
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> > No, but I do own "Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's" by Janet Van Amber Paske & Rita Van Amber. Plus the "More with Less Cookbook" by Doris Janzen Longacre, 1979 (Mennonite cookbook). I like the latter one, especially.
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> > Lenona.
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> I don't know about any of these cookbooks.


The latter has some pretty good recipes, IMO. I liked making my own baked corn chips, even if they're not carbon copies of Fritos. The secret ingredient - in the cookbook - is a drop or two of Tabasco sauce, but one wouldn't necessarily guess that from the taste.

The book also has, IIRC, a recipe for apple crumble with a little peanut butter topping - I used the unsweetened kind and enjoyed it.

One thing to remember, though - powdered milk was a dollar-stretcher in the 1990s and earlier, but not anymore. Use only if a recipe doesn't work without it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...om_search=true
(reader reviews)

Turns out it was actually published in 1976 - and reprinted in 2011!

Starting in 1997, there are 295 reviews at Amazon. (Yes, I know they overlap with those at Goodreads.)


Lenona.