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……
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Mock Turkey (adapted from Mennonite Community Cookbook, 1950)
Many of my older cookbooks contain some variant of a “mock turkey” recipe. Despite what our twenty-first century sensibilities might suggest, mock turkey has nothing to do with tofu or seitan and it’s anything but vegetarian. Recipes vary but they usually agree on two core components: ground beef and poultry seasoning. From a health……