Vintage Viands : 1940s Edition

Vintage Viands, an event where staff from the University Libraries prepare foods using recipes from the Home Economics Pamphlet Collection, Woman's Collection - Cookbooks, and the online collection Home Economics and Household Collections, is happening this Friday from noon to 2:30 in Jackson Library. The tasting event also includes a contest to reward the tastiest ane most unique dishes.

Here are the categories for this year's contest:

• Appetizer
• Main Dish
• Desserts
• Best Hot Dish [AKA Casseroles]
• Best Jell-O [or other brand of gelatin]

Recipes will be judged by these rankings:

• Tastiest [Over all categories]
• Most Unique [Over all categories]

For this year's interactive exhibit, we are featuring cuisine from the 1940s, which will include "ration book" specials, "meat extenders" and postwar delicacies featuring items that had been unavailable during the war years. There will also be displays of the cookbooks and pamphlets from the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives.

Vintage Viands results

Join us in congratulating the winners of the best and worst recipes for Vintage Viands! The best recipe goes to Bailey Crumpton for Gingersnap Balls which can be found here: http://bit.ly/17b9DU8 on page 11. The worst recipes goes to Paul Hessling (pictured) for his Turkey (Chicken) Aspic (also pictured) which can be found here: http://bit.ly/10yf6Rn on page 4. Thank you all for your participation and we hope to see everyone next year!

Also, if you want to see some pictures of the event (thank you, Cheryl), they are on our Facebook page and Flickr.

Vintage Viands!

This Friday in Jackson Library, the digital projects team will be hosting Vintage Viands, a taste-testing exhibit featuring recipes from the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) Home Economics Pamphlets Collection. In addition to the food,  SCUA will be displaying some of the actual pamphlets and there will also be laptops available so guests can view the digital collection.

Come early before the food is gone!

Home Economics Pamphlets Collection grows

Approximately seventy-five new pamphlets have been added to the Home Economics, Food, and Nutrition Pamphlets digital collection. Offering everything from recipes to household hints to instructions on how to use your new refrigerator, this collection is definitely one of the most colorful and fun projects we've worked with in Digital Projects.

Phase One, completed last year, included around sixty pre-1923 pamphlets, while this year's group dates from 1923 to 1977. The pamphlets are being presented as part of a larger digital collection that also includes more than five hundered government-issued pamphlets on food and nutrition that were digitized as part of the ASERL Centers of Excellence program.