A wonderful friend gave me a bag of cookbooks. These were mostly locally published and organizational cookbooks, the fun kind that groups use as fund raisers.
While all of them were fun, one stood out for a few reasons. It was full of names people that I knew or had heard of, it had fun recipes, and it was a local time capsule with ads of businesses that remain and business that are no longer here.
Because I am a nerd, I had wondered for years what the 63 in 634 translated to when we dialed with letters and numbers. I had assumed that it was MEherrin 4, and the ads in this cookbook proved that assumption correct.
The book, Our Favorite Recipes, by members of the Junior Woman’s Club of Emporia, Virginia, looks to have been published in the late 1960s. I plan on using a few of the recipes from this book, with the first being Betsy Kirkland’s Grasshopper Pie.
Betsy Kirkland’s Grasshopper Pie
½ pint whipping cream
1/3 c. melted butter
½ c. milk
4 tblsp. white crème de menthe
12 chocolate oreos
16 large marshmallows
½ c. cream
2 tblsp. white crème de cocoa
Crush oreo cookies, add melted butter, line pan with crust and bake at 350 degrees for a few minutes. Melt marshmallows, milk, ½ cup cream in double boiler, cool. Whip ½ cup cream. Add crème de menthe and crème de cocoa. Fold into marshmallow mixture. Pour into crust, shave bitter chocolate over and top, and freeze.
