What Should We Eat From the Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook?
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Friend, what a wildly busy season. Are you feeling it? I’ve been leading some spring cemetery tours in both Derry and Londonderry, New Hampshire, as well as deep diving in vintage cookbooks. I may never leave the archives again!
And, of course, I’ve got a new very old recipe coming your way, soon. In fact, I am in the midst of making something called Protose via a vegetarian cookbook from 1904. It’s supposed to turn out as a meat substitute. It’s going…fine. I guess.
While I mash the legumes and mix in the peanut butter, I need your help on future selections!
The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook is a compilation of family recipes collected by Tom Bernardin and published in 1991. Lucky for us, many of the recipes were saved through generations and drop the names of beloved mothers and grandmothers who handed them down. These cherished recipes carry flavors and memories of a variety of homelands.
Let’s try some food and dig up a life story. We may dip into this cookbook a few times!
I cannot wait to see what you pick!
Stick around to find out … and see what we can dig up on some Polish ancestors.
While you’re here: take advantage of the Spring Special. It’s currently just $28.00 for a year subscription. We’re continuing with recipes from the dead and tips on tracking down your ancestors.
Next up is Nut and Vegetable Roast from the Battle Creek Sanitarium. And if you have a recipe of an ancestor that you’d like me to do research on, do not hesitate to message me or send along an email: TrackYourDead@gmail.com
I think you will need some pierogi w/ the soup.
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Confession: sometimes I want you to make all of them. That’s so unreasonable.