Community cookbooks -- Colorado

Abstract

A WRJ and a Sisterhood of Congregation Emanuel pin and 28 file folders. Box also contains a copy of the 2009 Emanuel Sisterhood cookbook.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection includes annual reports, correspondence, limited patient records, meeting minutes, financial statements, reports, scrapbooks, photographs, sound discs, and objects from 1899 to 2009. The items reveal patient demographics and characteristics as well as detailed information regarding the early treatment of tuberculosis.

Abstract The Fair Cookbook was published by the Ladies of Congregation Emanuel in Denver, Colorado in 1888. It is the earliest known Jewish fundraising cookbook in America. The cookbook was sold at the fair that the Ladies of Temple Emanuel organized in 1888 to pay off the mortgage on the Temple. It is 49 pages in length with 13 sections, and features both traditional Jewish kosher recipes and recipes for non-kosher items as well as the names of individual contributors. The collection is a...

Abstract Friends of Shalom Park is a group of volunteers and supporters of the Jewish nursing home and residential senior center, Shalom Park, in Aurora, Colorado. As a fundraising project, the group created the cookbook entitled, Shalom on the Range: A Roundup of Recipes and Jewish Traditions from Colorado Kitchens. The collection includes the published cookbook as well as administrative documents, marketing material, and publicity forms that describe the book's planning and publication process....

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This folder contains one (1) recipe book put together by the Kansas City Auxiliary of the National Home for Jewish Children at Denver.