Nome Cook Book

Nome, Alaska: Women's Society of Christian Service of The Methodist Church, 1965. First Edition. 48 pp with 4 pages total of advertisements at front and rear. VG+ stapled illustrated wraps. Includes 4 page insert that reprints 13 recipes that had typographical errors.

According to the opening Expression of Appreciation, this cookbook was made to be "of practical value in the Far North" using "native meats and berries whose ingredients are readily available, and those have speacial appeal in this climate." Sections include Breads, Rolls, and Pancakes, Coffee Cakes and Doughnuts, Cakes, Candy and Frosting, Casseroles and One-Dish Meals, Cookies, Desserts, Meat, Poultry, and Fish, Native Dishes, Pies and Pastry, Salads and Dips, and Vegetables. Some notable recipes include Swedish Christmas Bread, Orange Crisscross Coffeecake, Mashed Potato Doughnuts, Kougarok Spick Cake ["keeps all winter if bears don't get in], Alaskan Goulash, Tuna Oatmeal Fritters, Reindeer Chili, Fried Seal Liver, and Walrus Stew.

Only 3 copies per OCLC (Alaska, Fairbanks, Texas Women's University, UAA/APU). Item #1075

Price: $30.00