SerVe: Revisiting a Century of American Legion Auxiliary Cookbooks

Recipes from 100 years’ worth of community cookbooks published in nearly every state are collected here, thoughtfully selected by members of the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 1879, Colorado State University, to celebrate the national organization’s centenary. In their own words: We collected more than 80 vintage and recent TALA cookbooks from virtually all states and eras, and sifted through their pages for compelling recipes and anecdotes. Then we reached out to TALA members across the country to retest recipes in their home kitchens and send us their comments and photos. Recipe testers faced challenges such as determining the temperature of a “warm oven,” the amount of “butter, size of a walnut,” and today’s equivalent of “10-cents worth of pork…. Organized by era and punctuated with histories of America’s military involvement, food stories of veterans, and tips and reflections from our test kitchens, this anthology of contemporary and timeless recipes—from Spiked Applesauce Baked