Wednesday 31 December 2008

quantity.servings@mennonite.cooking.ca

It's a treasure. The Mennonite Treasury of Recipes with its coil binding and tabbed sections. And with entries with bylines featuring the name of the contributor and their location, it is like reading an exchange of correspondence. The section on Quantity Servings (for 100 persons) has a recipe for Apple Pie that yields 15 pies. Did you know that Macaroni and Cheese for 100 takes 10 pounds of pasta?

The Treasury is a committee effort and was first published in 1961 and has gone through many printings — the sixteenth printing dates from November 1974.

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