Noted Local Collector's Porch Sale Extravaganza - Vintage Church Cookbooks ~ The Culinary Christian and Home Cooking from Tarkenton Memorial

Sorted through a few hundred books and lots of other paraphernalia at the porch sale of a local collector (he also had two different retail locations around town over the past 20+ years) and found just two cookbooks.

The Culinary Christian (2nd edition), published in 1977. Recipes collected and compiled by the Hickory Flat United Methodist Church in Canton, Georgia. The book is dedicated to the "Modern Home" and features both treasured old family recipes and a few new recipes. Filled with the usual Southern cooking recipes found in church cookbooks, with at least 50% of the pages filled with recipes for dessert or sweets (we LOVE our sweets here in the South!).

There are a few charts depicting cuts of meat for beef, lamb and pork. I did find a recipe I have made for over 20 years among  the entrees - Texas Hash - which I probably found in a community cookbook many years ago.

Home Cooking from Tarkenton Memorial, Plus Diet Delights, published in 1987. Recipes gathered and selected by the Women's Ministries of the Tarkenton Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church, located in Athens, Georgia. Very brief book with only 90 pages of recipes - with the last chapter (at least 12 pages)  filled with "Diet recipes". Stuffed between the pages were lots of recipes clipped from the local paper and other sources.

There is a recipe for a Friendship Bread Starter as well as the recipe for Friendship Bread. I was given this starter many years ago by D's mom and made a few loaves before getting tired of the constant feeding and let it "die". I still have the small blue Tupperware container the starter arrived in and use it often for leftovers!