Home Cookin'

I constantly am caught off guard that the states of Kansas and Missouri are so rich in Pioneer and Mormon Pioneer Heritage. I don't know why that is, exactly. It's not that I didn't know that many of the "stop-over" states for a lot of people moving to the west. This area, where I live, was the first City in Kansas, and it was a place for rest, replenishing supplies and making descisions about where to end up. Much more than a standard trading post of those days... I walked into our SuperWalmart today and browsed through the book section. I found some new reading material for E, who is now devouring books and I can't seem to keep up...a book for L and a book for AJ, who is finally finding that reading isn't all that bad. When I rounded the corner, on a endcap was a display of cookbooks. In my quest to cook at least one new recipe a month, I scanned the rack. Right in the middle, 4th row down, was the "Traditional Mormon Cooking". I was stunned. I couldn't believe they'd have this cookbook here! I picked it up---looked at the cover with all sorts of hearty meals displayed. The biscuits called my name. They were lightly browned, fluffy looking. Don't you hate looking at cookbooks when you're famished!? I bought it. It was the biscuits that pulled me in. I love me some homemade biscuits. When I got home, I perused it..... Inside the front cover is a page with a full picture of Brigham Young on it. The facing page gives a brief history of the exodus of the Mormon Pioneers to SLC from Nauvoo, Illinois. The thing I found most humorous in the book was the recipe for "Pork Roast with Apples". It sounds DIVINE and the picture sure has me slobbering. But the recipe itself calls for dry sherry. Now, don't get me wrong... I DO know that alcohol does burn off, and that it is debatable if that is breaking the Word of Wisdom.
Just found it humourous. In a Mormon Cookbook.