Community Cookbooks
Jan. 31st, 2022 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse
Image: Cardamom buns on parchment paper, fresh from the oven.
The recipe might be behind a paywall, but I got this one from our local newspaper, the Star Tribune: https://www.startribune.com/ring-in-the-new-year-by-baking-cardamom-buns/600130101/.
I told Shawn when we decided to make these on Sunday that I felt like, because it was NOT YET February, we could still TECHNICALLY consider ourselves "ringing in" the New Year.
Regardless, they were delicious.
I notice that I didn't report on anything else that happened over the week, since my last HeyGo round-up. I apologize for being so remiss. Part of it is that I am finally starting to feel the malaise that so many of my friends have felt since the beginning of the pandemic. This frustrates me because I normally find a lot of value, even joy, in the mundanity of life. I am totally the sort of person who considers a trip to the pharmacy as "a side quest." But,. lately, I've been struggling to find the day-to-day interesting, and I don't quite know what that's about.
My current hope is that this, too, shall pass.
I did want to talk about one thing of interest that happened over the weekend. Shawn and I went to the Roseville Ramsey County Library on Saturday because Shawn has a standing "order" with the Friends of the Library to pull any Minnesota related cookbooks for her--we're talking about all the church, synagogue, community cookbooks that are hyper localized. She buys them all, and, because she works at the Minnesota Historical Society, she'll check the history center's library's catalogue and see if there are any that the history center doesn't already have. Whatever they don't have, she donates. On Saturday, we brought home THREE grocery backs full of these quirky community cookbooks and most of them will be going to the history center.
If you're wondering WHY anyone would collect such things, there was a lovely article that was picked up by MPR that went around during the holiday season specifically about Minnesota cookbooks, https://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2021/12/the-enduring-appeal-of-the-minnesota-church-cookbook/, in which a member of Shawn's staff was interviewed about the history center's collection.
One of the ones I was looking through yesterday wasn't a church cookbook at all, but the cookbook of the local "linemen," the folks who work on electrical lines. The recipes were kind of terrible?? But, the story of how the cookbook came to be was pretty fascinating.
I am not one of those people who reads cookbooks like novels, but I do LOVE thumbing through them, especially the very, very old ones. I'm sure everyone out here already knows about this TikTok guy, Dylan Hollis (I linked to his YouTube, but you can always find him on TikTok), but if you've never watched his "cooking" show/60 seconds, you really should.
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Date: 2022-01-31 09:40 pm (UTC)I have a vague recollection of doing a Farewell to the 30s party where I did a bunch of Depression-era recipes. Couldn't have been for my 40th, but that was when I did that theme. Hmm. Anyway a lot of them are vegan because there were dairy and meat shortages.
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Date: 2022-02-01 05:35 am (UTC)Chocolate Potato Cake (Actually a variant version that came in a Tumblr thread attached to a reblog of the original Tiktok), Potato Chip Cookies, and (by far the best) Christmas Crack, sort of salted toffee/chocolate using Saltine crackers.
I still haven't tried Impossible Pie (Denise doesn't like coconut that much), and I was a little disappointed with the Corn Cookies.