Liz Morton sent in a few pages from Church Hill Receipts, a 165-page cookbook put out by the Junior Board of the Historic Richmond Foundation some time ago. Amazing.
The book looks like it’s from the 1960s or 1970s… Anybody know anything about it?
Want your own copy? There are a few copies for sale online as of right now.
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“How to Preserve a Husband”…this little book is a great find.
RT @chpn: Church Hill Receipts (1960s?) http://t.co/p9AatHaMGq #rvadine
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Really cool… I like these community cookbooks. Small communities and churches still do this and wonder if there is interest for Church Hill to do something like this now? How many people still cook at home from scratch?
i have one of these! My stepmother gave it to me when I moved to Church Hill. Her former mother-in-law gave it to her in the 60’s. No date in it. Says if you cut yourself you should bind the cut with cobwebs and brown sugar. Whaa???
A Rachel:
Not sure about cobwebs (those are just spider webs, right?), but spider silk/spider webs are supposedly great for helping seal minor wounds. Apparently this is a traditional native American remedy, but medical researchers are also trying to make implants to replace cartilage and other types of specialized tissue out of spider silk.
(It’s a little more complicated than that, and involves 3D printing and/or using the spider web as “scaffolding”, but the point is, the stuff is really helpful)
Not so sure about the brown sugar.
Kind of scary isn’t it? We live in an age where you can just print off a body part!
Ordered myself a copy. Like I need another cookbook but this is Church Hill unique.
Sugar , white or brown , will stop minor wounds from bleeding. I learned this from classes in emergency veterinary care.
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