Orange-Glazed Sweet Potatoes (Oregon, 1948, adapted)

Orange-Glazed Sweet Potatoes is a sweet and starchy side dish that will bring something a little bit different to the dinner table.  This particular recipe dates back to 1948, one of many recipes in the U. of O. Mother’s Cookbook, a community cookbook to raise funds for the University of Oregon.  Prior to finding this……

Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts (adapted from Mennonite Community Cookbook, 1950)

The recipe in Mennonite Community Cookbook that I find most entertaining is Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts.   This book designates the recipe as “very old”, presumably from the late nineteenth century.   This recipe was submitted independently by two different women.  The first was Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts, the other Ginger Balls.   I shudder to think what internet……