Over the years I’ve acquired a small collection of old church and community cookbooks. They’re each kind of like a time capsule. One of them is from Bigfork, Minnesota, in 1973 - and has a national celebrity section. Recipes to follow...

It seems the local hospital auxiliary wrote to politicians and celebrities to get recipe contributions for the book...

From the Nixon White House - recipes for barbecued chicken, avocado salad and raspberry pie...

Minnesota politicians & their families were included, too - including Muriel Humphrey’s beef soup that “sustains Hubert Humphrey’s vim, vigor and vitality”...

Mary Anderson - wife of Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson - shared a recipe for Norwegian meatballs...

Carol Burnett’s meatloaf and Bob Hope’s lemon pie...

Lawrence Welk’s creamed chicken... and more lemon pie...

Last one for now... Joan Mondale’s recipe for Minnesota wild rice casserole....

Added bonus from this cookbook - tucked inside, a clipped and saved 10-cents-off coupon for Nutri Grain cereal that expired in February 1983.

Any recipe requests, let me know and I’ll look them up.