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...
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...