UNE ME Women Writers

FOODIE FRIDAY -- For our final Foodie Friday, we finish the summer with Linda and Martha Greenlaw's The Maine Summers Cookbook: Recipes for Delicious, Sun-Filled Days (2011). Full of Isle au Haut summer glory! We hope you have a glorious end of summer.

FOODIE FRIDAY: Today's recipe is for Walnut or Butternut Catsup from 1873's The House-Keeper's Manual by Catharine E. Beecher & Harriet Beecher Stowe. Such a cool and creepy cover, and I love the advice "Do not use mushroom catsup, as the above is as good and not so dangerous" !!

FOODIE FRIDAY: Cool down in the heat with a Fruit Salad Antarctica from 1982's "The Complete Dairy Food Cookbook: How to Make Everything From Cheese to Custard in Your Own Kitchen" by E. Annie Proulx & Lew Nichols. #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #cookbooks #beattheheat

FOODIE FRIDAY: This week we highlight gluten-free baking from Eve Berman's 2002 "Nourishing Body and Soul" -- Merlin's Muffins! A "melt-in-your-mouth staple" #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #glutenfree #baking #muffins #merlin #2002

FOODIE FRIDAY: Today, it's from my private copy of Marjorie Mosser's Good Maine Food (1939). I appreciate the attention to frying a good egg!! #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #eggs #cookbook #friedegg #butter #drip

FOODIE FRIDAY: From 2011, we're focusing on Margaret Hathaway's Food Lovers' Guide to Maine: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants & Events. Black Crow Bakery in Litchfield is one of the best bakeries in the state! #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #mainefood

FOODIE FRIDAY: Here come the pickles! As summer begins, our recipe today comes from the undated (early 20th century?) Penobscot Recipes. I love how this pickle recipe calls for cucumber, tomato, onion, cauliflower, and pepper. Thank you "R.R. Waterman" #mwwc #unelibraries

FOODIE FRIDAY: Vanilla Bean Madeleines from Standard Baking Co. Pastries by Alison Pray and Tara Smith (2012). Proust made them famous -- maybe you'll want to make them for yourself! #mwwc #unelibraries # foodiefriday #standardbaking #madeleines #vanillabean #proust #baking

FOODIE FRIDAY: Cookie recipes from the 1912 Ashland Cookbook, issued by Willing Workers Society, Ashland, Maine. "Soft cookies!" #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #ashland #cookies

FOODIE FRIDAY: Today's feasty food is Eggplant Caviar (hint: no actual caviar!) from Kate Krukowski Gooding's 2007 Wild Maine Recipes. Let the roasting begin, and let us know how your "caviar" turns out! #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #mainefood #eggplantcaviar #blackflystew

FOODIE FRIDAY: We're blasting back into the past, circa 2012, for Portland, Maine Chef's Table: Extraordinary Recipes from Casco Bay (by Margaret Hathaway, photos by Karl Schatz, published by Lyons Press). Here's a recipe for Bruschetta from Caiola's, in Portland's West End

FOODIE FRIDAY: Going up to camp soon? Today's Foodie Friday recipe is from Alice Arden's 2004 The Maine Sporting Camp Cookbook. "Serve with real whipped cream and watch this treat disappear." #mwwc #unelibraries #uptacamp #mainecamps #cookbook #peach #pie

FOODIE FRIDAY: Today's recipe comes from the excellent 2020 cookbook Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women's Voices by Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford. And there's nothing better than a good lemon square! Let us know how yours turns out! #mwwc

FOODIE FRIDAY: Today's recipe is from the 1980 magnificently-titled "Simple Food for the Good Life: An Alternative Cook Book With a Collection of EASY RECIPES That Have Evolved from Necessity or Available Garden Produce..." by that Frugal Housewife Helen Nearing.

FOODIE FRIDAY: Today's foodie focus is on Anna Barrows's 1890 book, Eggs: facts and fancies about them. It's hard to describe the eccentric joy of this book. "The Dancing Egg" comes from the Easter section. If you manage to make any eggs dance, tag or let us know! #foodiefriday

FOODIE FRIDAY: It's almost fiddlehead season, so to celebrate, here's a simple fiddlehead recipe from Marjorie Standish's iconic 1969 Cooking Down East. Hope you enjoy -- and if you cook up some fiddleheads, let us know! #mwwc #unelibraries #foodiefriday #fiddleheads #cookbooks

FOODIE FRIDAY--EASTER EDITION: Here are a few diary entries from Easters past around Maine. #1. Grace Hoyt, Skowhegan 1932 -- "So many eggs!" #2. Myra Lougee, Limington, 1934 -- What a feast!

TODAY IS OUR LAST POST FROM DELLA MAY NOYES'S 1943 DIARY. THANK YOU FOR READING THIS PAST YEAR Friday, December 31, 1943 Nice day. Cooked some. Did up work. Seem to have a cold. Went over to Dorothy’s to Red Cross. Sewed on house [?]. Did some errands. We played Rummy.

Thursday, December 30, 1943 Cold. Cleaned up my room. Also kitchen. Did up work. Gordon has a cold. Played. - Della May Noyes

Monday, December 27, 1943 Snowing. Clearing. Cloudy. Ironed. Cleaned. Gordon has a cold. Did up work. We played cards. - Della May Noyes