Mennonite Community Cookbook

Among the cookbooks on the pantry shelf at home there has always been the little hand-written notebook of recipes. As a child I learned that this blue notebook, which contained a collection of my mother's favorite recipes, was her favorite cookbook.Not only were all the pages of this notebook filled with recipes, but inserted between the pages were loss sheets of paper on which were written other favorites. These were copied by friends and relatives whom Mother had visited at some time and whose specialty she had admired.Since a cookbook of the favorite recipes of Mennonite families had never been published, I began to sense that the handwritten recipe books were responsible. I asked to see them wherever I went and was astonished to learn how many of them had been destroyed in recent years. The daughters of today were guilt of pushing them aside in favor of the new, just as I had done one day.This collection is a compilation of over 1, 100 recipes, chosen from more than 5, 000 recipes sent in. They come to you from most of the Mennonite communities in the United States and Canada.