I live with my Mom and Dad and their weimaraner "Spencer". My Dad has multi infarct dementia

We all come from Vermont and we grew up during the 60's and 70's. One of our favorite things is cooking and so we try and stay sane by writing about cooking. I have an old cookbook from Rutland VT called "Out of Vermont Kitchens that we are going to try and cook from and see what the food tastes like.

The cookbook has some prepared foods in some of the recipes. But we will try and adapt them perhaps to modern cusine.

We also try other recipes but will dive into our Vermont roots as often as we can.

Marion Ballou Smith
The daughter of Orris and Margaret (Mageen) Ballou, Marion Ballou Smith grew up in Rutland, Vermont, graduated from Mount Holyoke College (1914), and taught botany and mathematics. In 1927 she married Esme A.C. Smith, a businessman in Rutland. Active in local business and civic affairs, Smith was the co-compiler, with Alice Chaffee Bowker and Ruth Sutton, of a fund-raising cookbook entitled Out of Vermont Kitchens, published in 1939, to benefit the Trinity Mission of Trinity Church in Rutland, and the Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church in Burlington, Vermont.

1.04.2010

Out of Vermont Kitchens


I have decided to try some of the old recipes from an old cookbook I was given. Out of Vermont Kitchens was first published in 1930's and I have an a 1940's edition. There are lots of recipes with lots and lots of eggs, whole milk, evaporated milk, lard and butter. No non-fat, low-fat anywhere.

The recipes have a list of ingredients but have hidden ingredients embedded with the method.

I'll try a few recipes each week. I'm still leafing thru the cookbook and I'm coming up with alternates for both my health and thighs.

We baked Panettone a few days ago and I'm having some of it with coffee this morning.
Posted by Kimberly at 9:34 AM

1 comment:

Lorie ~ Luray Lane Vintage said...

Hi, I don't know if you will ever see this, as I am 5 years late to the game. I just purchased my own "Out of Vermont Kitchen" from the thrift store in Syracuse, NY. It is the 1967 7th edition. I love it and I also want to make a lot of the recipes. My mother has dementia also, slowly forgetting things since her stroke 12 years ago at age 62. She still lives in her own apartment and has aides that come each day, and Mon-Fri she goes to an adult day health program that she loves. I'm glad I found your blog and look forward to reading your entries. Seeing that it is 5 years later I hope you are doing okay with your dad if he is still with you. All the best, Lorie Moynihan-Broedel

May 20, 2015 at 7:52 PM

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