What's for Dinner, Fri., Nov. 7, 2025 [View all]

I recently came into a nice cookbook collection. I love cookbooks where a church or some other organization does a cookbook as a fundraiser. I recall my mother participating in one, which I still have. I like the ones with a spiral binding that stay open while you're cooking.

This one is from a church on Block Island, an island from which I have fond memories from my time living in Connecticut. I used to visit Block Island on weekends, and we would walk and bicycle all over the place.

The recipe I chose for tonight is "Clam Fritters." It's pretty simple--flour, eggs, milk--then frying to a golden brown. I'll take the liberty of adding fresh corn from the cob.

These cookbooks almost always say who the contributor was, and this recipe was from Miss Ethel Gertrude Mott.

Cucumbers and dill in sour cream/mascarpone as an accompanying dish.

Kombucha: Peach mango.

Dessert: slice of white cake with cherries.



On the back is a map of Block Island, noting that it was discovered in 1613 by Adrian Block, and settled by 16 men in 1661.