HTM’s ‘Tasting’ dinner features recipes from community cookbooks
A special meal featuring recipes from historic community cookbooks will be served by Hospitality and Tourism Management students on Friday, April 17 from 6-8 p.m. in the Marriot Center on the 11th floor of the Campus Center.
For more than two years, three faculty members, librarians from the Special Collections and University Archives at the Du Bois Library and a dozen honors students have worked to identify and test unique recipes from the 3,000 community cookbooks in the Beatrice McIntosh Cookery Collection.
According to associate professor Linda Lowry, recipes in the community cookbooks represent not only their place of origin, but also the lives and voices of the women who wrote them.
The “tasting” type dinner features menu items from the following cookbooks:
• “The Young Housekeepers Companion” (1883), Ladies of the First Baptist Church Society, Greenfield
• “Choice Recipes” (1886), Ladies of Baldwinville for the Memorial Church Fair, Baldwinville
• “700 Choice Recipes” (7th edition, 1902), Ladies of the Second Congregational Church, Holyoke
• “Foods from Truro Kitchens” (3rd edition, 1945), Committee of the Truro Neighborhood Association, Truro
• “Norwell Cook Book” (1940), Norwell Parent Teachers’ Association, Norwell
The foods that will be served include: creamy tomato soup, New England fish chowder, chicken fricassee, stuffed corned beef, boiled asparagus, seasoned pork chops with cranberries, sweet corn pie, traditional refrigerator rolls, moist orange cake, classic chocolate pudding, sugar cookies and iced mint punch.
The cost for the meal is $15 (payable in advance). In order to prepare for this meal, reservations must be received by April 8. To reserve a space, call 545-0877 or e-mail: guest355@ht.umass.edu
Make checks payable to “HTM/UMass” and send to
HTM Lab/11th floor Campus Center, University of Massachusetts, 1 Campus Way, Amherst 01003.
Post your own recipes or participate in the blog at: www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/cookbooks/?page_id=1006
More Information
Beatrice McIntosh Cookery Collection
April 12, 2009.
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