by Allison Brown
Because of extra time at home and low stock at grocery stores, social distancing has created more home cooks than ever. Did you know that Milne has a whole ebook collection of local cookbooks in our Geneseo Valley Historical Reprints series? Try your hand at historical classics like election cakes (Genesee Valley Cook Book p 71) floating islands (Golden Links Cookbook, p 49), or something called “Curly Peters” (Contributed Recipes, p 6).
These cookbooks even have recipes for outside the kitchen, like for furniture polish (Genesee Valley Cook Book p 108) and an ointment for chapped hands (Contributed Recipes, p 52). But maybe wait on tackling “Clam Chowder for 100 People” (Boethean cook book: Tested receipts, p 6) until our current crisis has passed.
