Thread: Settlement Cookbook??

On Aug 4, 11:50*am, BeartoothGiG <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
> * * * * It must have been well-known in its time : I've seen a Nineteenth
> Edition. But there is nothing to indicate what settlement they mean,
> other than the fact that some other names mentioned seem to belong in
> Southern Wisconsin ...

Google/Bing "Feeding America" and you'll find actual copies of many of
these very old classics. More than you wanted to know about this one:
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This book is a splendid example of an American charity cookbook which
went on to influence our cuisine for almost one hundred years. It
began its life as a fundraiser for the Jewish Settlement House in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Upon its first printing, it was an immediate
success and was reprinted, in revised and enlarged editions, until
almost the beginning of the 21st century. It was, or course, totally
unrecognizable in its later printings. However, funds were raised for
all kinds of charitable causes in Milwaukee for the first seventy-five
years of its life. A rather remarkable contribution.

From its earliest printings, the recipes were not kosher and included
lobster and shellfish. There were also many dishes of German origin,
reflecting the German Jewish community in Milwaukee. The chapter on
Kuchen includes those called Coffee or Sugar, Tarts, Good, Bundt,
Apple, Poppy Seed, Berliner Pfann, Cheese and Blueberry as well as
Filled Walnut Kipfel and Schnecken. Among the Jewish dishes were
Matzos Pancakes, Matzos Balls, Filled Fish, Kugel, Matzos Pudding.
Many of the recipes present an amalgam of German, Eastern European and
Jewish cooking.

By 1991 two million copies of The Settlement Cookbook had been sold.
It was an American classic, especially in the Midwest. A completely
revised and updated version, renamed The New Settlement Cookbook,
edited by Charles Pierce, was issued in 1991, subtitled "The First
Classic Collection of American Ethnic Recipes."
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:42:41 -0700 (PDT), aem <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Aug 4, 11:50*am, BeartoothGiG <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> * * * * It must have been well-known in its time : I've seen a Nineteenth
>> Edition. But there is nothing to indicate what settlement they mean,
>> other than the fact that some other names mentioned seem to belong in
>> Southern Wisconsin ...
>
>Google/Bing "Feeding America" and you'll find actual copies of many of
>these very old classics. More than you wanted to know about this one:
>---------
[snip>

This is intriguing. My Mom swore by the the SCB, which she
grew up with, but she was a Hungarian Catholic (Byzantine
Rite). I have a replica of the 1903 version. Somewhere, in
storage, I have Mom's, with its paper sack bookcover. It dates
from the '30's.

FWIW: There are no pork recipes in my early edition.

Yet, a question. Was there a need for a settlement for
the millions of Jews who settled in the Milwaukee area?
My understanding was that it was a place for young girls/
immigrants, the majority would have been from the
Scandanavian Countries and Germany.

These (betrothed, or other) had a chance to learn how
to adapt their early learning, to the US custom.

That they had many a girl who was looking for a beau,
was maybe the basis for their motto:

"The way to a man's heart..."

Anyway, the recipes are solid and reliable, but remember
they were tested on cast iron stoves.

Alex, growing nostalgic.

On Aug 4, 2:51*pm, Chemiker <prussianblu...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> This is intriguing. My Mom swore by the the SCB, which she
> grew up with, but she was a Hungarian Catholic (Byzantine
> Rite). I have a replica of the 1903 version. Somewhere, in
> storage, I have Mom's, with its paper sack bookcover. It dates
> from the '30's.
>
> FWIW: There are no pork recipes in my early edition.

There are in the edition that's on line at Feeding America.
>
> [snip unanswerable questions]

> Anyway, the recipes are solid and reliable, but remember
> they were tested on cast iron stoves.
>
Well, reliable in the sense that they are safe to follow. Nowadays
few would want to boil vegetables for as long as they did then. -
aem

BeartoothGiG wrote:
> It must have been well-known in its time : I've seen a Nineteenth
> Edition. But there is nothing to indicate what settlement they mean,
> other than the fact that some other names mentioned seem to belong in
> Southern Wisconsin ...
>
> Anybody know anything??


No, but it reminded me of this: (which always give me a chuckle)

http://books.google.com/books?id=LT6...sec=frontcover


Bob

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:12:23 -0700 (PDT), aem <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Well, reliable in the sense that they are safe to follow. Nowadays
>few would want to boil vegetables for as long as they did then. -
>aem

True, true! But it didn't kill you!!!

And, if you had no teeth, maybe this was
how they did it.... Hm?

Alex

"BeartoothGiG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> It must have been well-known in its time : I've seen a Nineteenth
> Edition. But there is nothing to indicate what settlement they mean,
> other than the fact that some other names mentioned seem to belong in
> Southern Wisconsin ...
>
> Anybody know anything??
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
> I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.


I have the 'New Settlement Cookbook' which is a reproduction, printed in
1991. I never paid attention to whether or nor there were pork recipes in
it. I believe it was given to me as a gift. I've never prepared any recipe
from it but it was an interesting read, IIRC. Sometimes I simply enjoy
reading cookbooks; I don't have to cook from every single cookbook I own.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
> "BeartoothGiG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>>
>> It must have been well-known in its time : I've seen a Nineteenth
>> Edition. But there is nothing to indicate what settlement they mean,
>> other than the fact that some other names mentioned seem to belong in
>> Southern Wisconsin ...
>>
>> Anybody know anything??
>> --
>> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
>> I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
>
>
> I have the 'New Settlement Cookbook' which is a reproduction, printed in
> 1991. I never paid attention to whether or nor there were pork recipes
> in it. I believe it was given to me as a gift. I've never prepared any
> recipe from it but it was an interesting read, IIRC. Sometimes I simply
> enjoy reading cookbooks; I don't have to cook from every single cookbook
> I own.
>
> Jill

I have the third edition published in 1976. It has pork recipes.

The settlement was a settlement house in Milwaukee, WI. Here's what
Wikipedia says about settlement houses. http://xrl.in/2ufy

The cookbook incorporates traditional recipes from the homelands of the
attendees at the classes at the settlement house.

It is one of my favorite cookbooks.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.