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Nov. 25th, 2022 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariThe Fredericksburg Home Kitchen Cookbook is quickly becoming my favorite cookbook.
I bought a few Texas Hill Country cookbooks looking for stuff from my home that I could make in Washington State. Most of the ones I got were good cook books, but they weren't the German and Mexican (and fusion) recipes I really wanted.
I found this book at the Fredericksburg Pioneer Museum. After flipping through it I KNEW this was the book I wanted. It's a locally printed book, edited by the Fredericksburg Parent-Teacher Associations, and has been in and out of print (And updated) since 1916. I have the 1996 edition.
It's exactly what I wanted. These are recipes not by chefs or food stylists, but is genuine home cooking by the families in the area, and of the time. Which means it has a lot of the staple Texas German foods you found being made by families in the 1910s, but also, just some downhome easy to make food up to the 1990s (one of my fave recipes is a 1910s recipe for "A Good Steak" which is essentially a simple and quick Chicken Fried Steak).
This is where I got the recipes for the Kolaches, the "breakfast dumplings" and the cabbage rolls. It's not real good on explaining techniques and just assumes you know how to do a lot of the cooking, but it's the kinds recipes I want.
The only place I know that sells the latest (1996) version of the book is the Pioneer Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas, but the first and second versions have gone into public domain and can be found on archive.org. Mind you, that's the 1921 version, so it's missing seventy years of new recipes, but if you want a peek at the recipe book, here it is: https://archive.org/details/fredericksburgho00unse
I bought a few Texas Hill Country cookbooks looking for stuff from my home that I could make in Washington State. Most of the ones I got were good cook books, but they weren't the German and Mexican (and fusion) recipes I really wanted.
I found this book at the Fredericksburg Pioneer Museum. After flipping through it I KNEW this was the book I wanted. It's a locally printed book, edited by the Fredericksburg Parent-Teacher Associations, and has been in and out of print (And updated) since 1916. I have the 1996 edition.
It's exactly what I wanted. These are recipes not by chefs or food stylists, but is genuine home cooking by the families in the area, and of the time. Which means it has a lot of the staple Texas German foods you found being made by families in the 1910s, but also, just some downhome easy to make food up to the 1990s (one of my fave recipes is a 1910s recipe for "A Good Steak" which is essentially a simple and quick Chicken Fried Steak).
This is where I got the recipes for the Kolaches, the "breakfast dumplings" and the cabbage rolls. It's not real good on explaining techniques and just assumes you know how to do a lot of the cooking, but it's the kinds recipes I want.
The only place I know that sells the latest (1996) version of the book is the Pioneer Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas, but the first and second versions have gone into public domain and can be found on archive.org. Mind you, that's the 1921 version, so it's missing seventy years of new recipes, but if you want a peek at the recipe book, here it is: https://archive.org/details/fredericksburgho00unse
