Let's have a Picnic with Recipes from CLASSIC Cookbooks

For April let's get together for a Picnic!

For this meetup we've chosen two classic cookbooks to explore:
Joy of Cooking - by Irma Rombauer
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook

These are both available from our St Louis Country Library, the internet's archive.org as well as several used book outlets.

Please make a dish suitable for a picnic from one of these two classic cookbooks and bring it to share with the group. Also bring a small serving spoon or fork and let us know ahead of time what you plan to cook.

Plates, forks, napkins, etc will be provided for sampling. Please bring
a $1 to cover the cost of supplies.

Please dress for the weather as we'll be outdoors in a covered picnic pavillion

Joy of Cooking is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks. It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies. It was published privately during 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer (1877–1962), a homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri, after her husband's suicide the previous year. Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton, a company that had printed labels for fancy St. Louis shoe companies and for Listerine mouthwash, but never a book. Five years later, publishing moved to a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company. With nine editions, it is considered the most popular American cookbook.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook - First published in 1930 and famously branded as the "New Cook Book" with its signature red plaid cover in 1953. This cookbook became a staple of American cooking with over 40 million copies sold across seventeen+ editions. The book is known for updating its content with every edition to match current, healthier, and faster lifestyles, often introducing "new" categories (like "jiffy cooking" in 1953 or modern "quick" meals) while retaining a mix of comfort food classics.