We want your recipes!

The Genealogy Club is making a cookbook!  Sales will benefit the Montgomery County Historical Society.  This great gift idea will be available in November 2012 – just in time for the holidays.  We’re collecting recipes from you, your neighbors, and your friends – won’t you help us out?  Spread the word!

The recipe submission deadline has been extended to July 1, 2012.  There's still time to get us your favorite dish!

Photo: Daisy Magruder of Rockville, 1965.  

 

3 easy ways to contribute your recipes: 

  1. Online:  Go to http://www.typensave.com/get-started/and log in using User Name Montgomery524and password cheese279.
  2. E-mail:  Send your recipe to us at montmdgenealogy@yahoo.com.  Please place “Recipe” in the subject line. 
  3. Snail Mail:  Send your written or typed recipe to us.  Include your name, city and state (for publication) and phone number or e-mail (not for publication; in case we have a question).  Mail to:

Cookbook
c/o Montgomery County Historical Society
111 W. Montgomery Avenue
Rockville, MD 20850

ALSO include a brief (4 lines or about 375 characters) recipe note.  This can be a memory related to the recipe (who made it or when), or about your family history or genealogy.  Your recipe doesn’t have to be old.  And YES you can contribute more than one recipe!

 

Sample (this is not my recipe and the notes are made up – it’s just a sample):

Irish Soda Bread

Category: Breads and Rolls                                                              Your Name, Your Town, MD

 

4 c. flour                                                                                                3-4 T. caraway seed

¼ c. sugar                                                                                              2 c. raisins

1 tsp. salt                                                                                               1 1/3 c. low fat buttermilk

1 tsp. baking powder                                                                           2 egg whites, beaten

1 tsp. baking soda                                                                               ¼ c. margarine

 

Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda.  Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse meal.  Stir in caraway seeds and raisins.  Combine buttermilk and egg; stir into dry mix until moistened.  Turn out onto floured surface and knead lightly until smooth.  Shape dough into a ball and place on a 7-inch round loaf pan.  Cut a 4-inch cross about ¼-inch deep on top.  Brush top with milk.  Bake at 375F for 1 hour or until golden brown.

 

Note: This recipe was brought to this country by my great-great Aunt Margaret Cooney.  The Cooneys came from County Kerry, Ireland, in the 1890s. 

OR

Note:  My family came to Montgomery County in the 1930s.  My grandmother made butter from the milk the family’s cows gave. 

 

And, don’t forget - your contact info (not for publication): (XXX) XXX-XXXX; e-mail@anyserver.com