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This holiday season put history on the dinner table!
LCGHS can help with a collection of Logan County Cookbooks

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[December 27, 2014]  LINCOLN - The cookbook collection at the Logan County Genealogical and Historical Society is chocked full of recipes hand-picked by local cooks, favorites of Abraham Lincoln, and others.

These cookbooks listed below are viewable at the Logan County Genealogical and Historical Society, 114 N. Chicago St.

In December the Society will be open on Tuesday’s, Dec. 23 and 30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. January hours include Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 11 to 4 and the second and fourth Saturday’s from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Holiday and post-holiday recipes range from Pfefferneuse and Christmas Cherries to corn chowder, turtle soup, and hush puppies to red eye gravy, Hoppin John, roasted quail, and Zonta dressing, apple pan dowdy, Tutti-fruity squares, Twinkie dessert and recipes for homemade beer and wine enthusiasts.

A listing of collection cookbooks follows including a sampling from each book:

First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
We’ll Make the Butter Fly, 1904,
The Ladies Missionary Society


Bread pudding, bride’s cake, gingerbread, walnut taffy, and Indian meal bannock.

One quotation reads, “When a frying pan got into society, it became a chafing dish.” This cookbook also includes cookery for the sick.

First Presbyterian Church
Ladies Aid Society, 1906

Oyster soup, quick fried mush, three-day orange marmalade, and clippings for uncooked pound cake and Heavenly hash.

Handwritten into the book is a recipe for Mrs. Diffendeufer’s candy. The book also includes an old time formula in the event cow’s milk disagrees with an infant.

First Presbyterian Church
The Best in Cooking in Lincoln,
Parish Society, 1953

Sawyer cakes, Fricadillas, Osgood pie and plum pudding.

First Presbyterian Church
Lincoln Cookbook
Ladies Aid Society, 1914


Popovers, carmel custard, mince meat, Nesselrode pudding, Salamagrindy, and marshmallows.

Holy Family Catholic Church
Parish Cookbook, 1978-1986

Fried zucchini, idiot bread, nusse strudel, ladies luncheon casserole, Jewish coffee cake, sauerkraut salad and Big Mac sauce.

First Baptist Church
Cooking With Grace
American Baptist Men of the Church

Spam puffs, batter fried vegetables, cookie monster salad, cornmeal waffles, pork chops and stuffing, fry bread, Jumer’s Cinnamon Rolls, pumpkin frozen dessert, sawdust pie, coal crystal garden, Fanny Mae Fudge, broken glass candy and flannel cakes.

Lincoln Christian Church
The Harvest of Talents
Women’s Fellowship

Gumbo, Communion Bread, apple dumplings, Ozark pudding, Baked Alaska, Escalloped pineapple, unbaked cathedral cookies, chocolate mint bars, Keebler graham crackers, Illini Bars, Moon Rocks, and Reuben casserole.

Eminence Christian Church Ladies

Noodles, potato cakes, chocolate pudding, Tutti Fruitty filling for cakes, and rule for seasoning of 50 pounds of sausage.
 


Lincoln Christian College
Hearthtenders Cookbook, 1976-1977

French onion soup, cheeseburger and French fry casserole, apple pan dowdy, Hummingbird cake, candy strawberries, and skillet cookies.

The Christian Village
Favorite Recipes, Resident Council, 1991


Onion ring batter, Herman starter, Gooseberry salad, scalloped salmon and noodles, squash casserole, no bake fruit cake, Christmas fruit cake, O’Henry Bars, Toffee squares, hard candy, peanut butter, cherry pudding, mock Baby Ruth bars, and peanut butter cups.

The Ritchhart Family Cookbook

HVR Nachos, Don’s Butterhorns, Doc’s beer biscuits, apple pudding cake and topping, Palmer House’s carrot cake, chocolate nut Christmas surprise cookies, Ey’s Bakery cookies, Josie’s chocolate pie, Betty’s clam chowder, baked grits, Great Grandma’s creamed onions, potato pancakes, apple fritters and Zonta dressing.

Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary, Kitchen Operations

Beer bread, horseshoe sandwich, ham loaf, squash and apple bake, Dr. Bird Cake, custard pie, Grape-Nut pie, Muskrat pie, Buster Bar Dessert, and Buttery cinnamon skillet apples.

Broadwell Community Club
Cookie Book, 1960 and 2007

Sweet-N-Quick coconut cookies, Porcupines, Taffy Bars, Scotch Short Bread, whirligig cookies, pfefferneuse, Tutti-Fruitti squares, Christmas Cherries, and pumpkin cookies.

Waynesville Woman’s Club
75th Anniversary Edition, 1989

Ginger bread house, apple pie baked in brown bag, aromas of Christmas fragrance, noodle nest for jelly beans.

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Lincoln Jayceettes
What’s Cooking in Lincoln?

Party mix using French fried onion rings and shoestring potatos, pumpkin bars, and bake while you sleep cookies.

Cutler-Hammer
Lincoln Plant 40th Anniversary Cookbook,
1958-1998

Fish batter used at Sky View Ranch in the ‘60’s and Twinkie recipes.

Friendship Manor
Favorites, 2002

Cheese sauce for Horseshoes.

Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary, Out of Lincoln Kitchens

Cream of beet soup and Christmas patties.

Logan County
Homemaker’s Extension Association

Favorite Recipes: Asparagus soup, corn dogs, apple tarts, bakeless fruit cake, frosty strawberry squares, and fried pumpkin blossoms.

Logan County
Homemaker’s Extension Association
Microwave Recipes, 1984

Quick corn bread ring, marshmallow crisp, turtles, caramel apples, Holiday yule Log, quick plum pudding and baked apples.

Abraham Lincoln Cookbook
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
A Cookbook of Epic Proportions, 2008

Lincoln’s favorite white cake with candied fruit frosting, blue plum pudding, Christmas pudding, calico beans, Southern fried quail, Springfield’s horseshoe sandwich, Avanti’s bread, buttermilk pie, baked custard and Abraham Lincoln’s molasses pecan pie.

The Lincoln Heritage Trail Cookbook
1971

Gumbo soup, Sally Lunn’s, Crackling bread, Pig in a Polk, BBQed spare ribs, Lincoln’s honey-almond cake, caramel pudding and gooseberry cobbler.
 


Buxton Family
Favorite Personally Proven Recipes
(family includes Charles B. Spaugh of Lincoln)

Finger quiche, Navajo Fry bread, popcorn cake, peanut butter pie, blueberry brickle, and corn chowder.

Little Sisters of Hoboken
Baking with the B.V.M.
(Blessed Virgin Mary)
Mt. St. Helen’s School,
prepared by the Convent cook

Mary Magdalene raspberry tarts, crunchy noodle salad, Holiday wreath, and county fair funnel cake.

Confederate Receipt Book
Mrs. Hill’s New Cook Book
Antique American Cookbooks, 1863, 1985

 Hopping John, Poor Man’s Pudding, crumpets, Turtle soup, camp stew, baked pork and beans, sauerkraut, doughnuts, grape wine, corn beer, and hasty pudding. It also has recipes for how to make soap, candles and whitewash.

Silver Dollar City
Country Cookin’ City Style, 1972

Corn pone, hoecakes, cornbread and stuffing, ham steak and red-eye gravy, homemade sausage and apple rings, baked hominy grits, and apple butter.

Old Timey Recipes
1992

Sour Dough starter, Moonshine, Butter Rum mints, sweet potato pie, eggplant fritters.

Danish Cookery
Susanne, 1950

Giblet soup, rice porridge, Bornholm omelet, vegetable patties, roast goose, Christmas crullers;

Logan County
Farm Bureau Women’s Committee
Pamphlet, Cooking With Beef

Oven Swiss steak, Poor Boys, Texas BBQ, and beef chow mein.

Westinghouse
Pamphlet, Guide to Low Fat Cooking

Chicken cacciatore, fluffy griddle cakes, stuffed zucchini, and apple tarts.
 

American Dairy Association
Pamphlet: Our Dairy Specialties

Butter pecan cheese cake, Holiday potatoes, caramel bars and chicken A-La-King.

Donations of local cookbooks and other significant items are always welcomed. Memberships in the society are available for $15 and include receipt of a quarterly publication. The membership fee for two persons at the same address is $20.

[Diane Osborn, Logan County Genealogical and Historical Society]

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