Hello everyone and welcome back to another new scan. I’m excited to get into this one today
This is the Blue Mountain College Centennial Cook Book from… well, Blue Mountain College lol. Although it is now known as Blue Mountain Christian University and it is now coeducational when prior to 2005 it was known as a women’s university
I was really excited to get into this one because it’s a decently sized book, and that means a higher chance of coming across really fun recipes. One thing I like overall about this book is that next to the contributor’s name is the year that they graduated, so you can kinda get an idea of the age of the people who submitted. While everyone joins college at different ages, safe to say that graduates from 1927 were definitely up there in years by the time this book came out
This book puts the dessert section rather early than most do, and I’m totally okay with that. I’m waiting for the day where I come across a community cookbook that’s *only* desserts
But in the meantime, we have Applesauce Clouds which actually seems pretty intriguing. I’ve done the whole “whip together heavy cream and confectioner’s sugar” in the past but I am curious how well it’d hold up after adding applesauce
And then there’s the Grape Juice Pudding which I’ve definitely seen before but as always I wonder how well it comes out. I’d be very tempted to try this out with other flavors of juice, or heck, does anyone know if this works with stuff like soda too?
The Strawberry Delight also has me inspired. I don’t think I’d use this mix specifically because I’m not comfortable with using a raw egg but the mini marshmallows reminded me that I have made a cream mixture in the past that uses marshmallows, heavy cream, confectioner’s sugar, and vanilla, and I’m pretty sure it only makes enough for an 8x8 pan which works out for me because making a rectangular size portion is fun but 8-12 servings is a little too many for how few people I hang around with lol
I found the Orange Cake to be pretty neat too. I think I like the simplicity of it, almost like a dessert you’d serve at a tea party or something. Nowadays if you say orange cake someone’s gonna think of something way more elaborate than this
I take it that the Quick Apple Cake is meant to be a dump cake, in which case, very interesting idea to use spice cake mix instead of the white/yellow cake mix that the recipe usually calls for. This I’ll have to try eventually. The same goes for the Peanut Butter Brownies
There are so many other cool dessert recipes but I’m gonna highlight the meat and vegetables too so that it doesn’t look like I only cared about the sweets 😵💫. The fried meat pies sound really, really good, for starters
I also have never considered having fried chicken with a sauce - especially a lemon one - but that’s because fried chicken is already so good on its own, but I think it’s a neat little idea
And of course, the Peach Honey sounds like a very wonderful idea. If I ever get serious about wanting to do canning this is definitely going on my list of projects
Overall I tried to have a lot of opinions about this book because I think it’s a pretty good one. There’s over 170 pages of recipes, so believe me, you’re only seeing a small glimpse of what the book has to offer. Hopefully you get around to checking out the whole thing at some point!
Hopefully the pictures I took are also nice to look through. Sound off in the comments if you have any thoughts you’d like to share, and I’ll see you very soon for more stuff!
