Rochester Junior League Cookbook Applehood and Motherpie
I love old cookbooks, especially community cookbooks. I have a collection of old church cookbooks, each recipe is neatly typewritten, quite the feat when I consider the amount of times I use the backspace key. I also have cookbooks compiled by schools, such as nursery and private schools, those are fun because they often feature artwork from kids. A few general vintage cookbooks round out my collection, just because they can be fun to read. But my favorite by a landslide is the Rochester Junior League Cookbook Applehood and Motherpie
Ask any cookbook collector and they will tell you no cookbook collection is complete without some Junior League cookbooks. Junior League cookbooks are considered the golden standard of community cookbooks. Created by Junior League chapters all over the country the cookbooks are used to raise money for churches, schools and other various nonprofit community programs, that feature tried and true recipes with a focus on local tastes and trends.
If you walk into any bookstore you will find a ton of newer cookbooks all with highly styled gorgeous photos. Applehood & Pie’s focus was always on the job at hand: providing you with a book full of amazing recipes with local ties. There are no full-page glossy photos, but the recipes enough. I find myself reaching for this book again and again.
Junior League cookbooks become beloved in the communities they were created. I grew up in Wayne County which lies within the Rochester
Almost all my
Want to take a peek into Applehood and Motherpie? These are a few of my favorite recpies:
I need the Cream of Broccoli soup from Applehood and mother pie. Could someone send it to me, please. 🙏
ME TOO!!! I stupidly took it out to share with a friend and it never made it back to my book. Were you ever successful in finding it? It was so good with the buttermilk etc. If you or anyone has it, please share!!
I lost pages 197-204. Could anyone take pics and send to me?
Please send the Seafood Lasagna recipe.
I’ve misplaced my copy of Applehood & Motherpie and my daughter is searching for her favorite recipe, a baked chocolate pudding with coffee on top… Can anybody help?
I lived in Rochester when Applehood and Motherpie came out in 1981. The book itself, with that “fold back” cover, was a brilliant addition to my cookbook collection; so clever and easy to use! My kids were toddlers back then, and our favorite project was making the fat pretzels found on page 78. I made them again, today, and they are still fabulous!
Hello!
I am in search of the Deluxe Carrot Cake Recipe from the Junior League Cookbook. Can you help me with this.
My cookbook is at our home in Roanoke Virginia and due to the Pandemic, we are remaining in this area until the end of the year.
If you can help me with this, awesome!
Hi, we have moved three times and I have misplaced my cook book. I am looking for the broccoli and pea casserole recipe. My email is miriclechild40@yahoo.com
Thanks so much,
Carol Contestabile
I’m planning to bake Apple Bread from Applewood & Motherpie: Handpicked Recipes from Upstate New York on Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. I plan to serve it for breakfast Thanksgiving morning and to give half of it to our neighbors for their breakfast.
Does anyone know if the baking instructions, which are,”Preheat over to 325 degrees and bake until set, 55-60 minutes” for a convection oven or a conventional oven, the kind our Moms used.
Thank you for your help and Happy Thanksgiving. Carole
Hi Carole,
I have actually made this recipe!
My oven has an optional convection oven setting, but I did not turn it on for this recipe and the 325 F for an hour was pretty spot on. If you would like to use your convection oven I would recommend either by lowering the oven’s temperature by about 25 degrees, or shortening the cooking time by about a quarter (That is what my oven manual calls for when using convection, and seems to be the standard recipe adjustment)
Happy Thanksgiving!
I have this cookbook and got it back in the early 1990’s when I went to college in Rochester. My favorite recipe is still the Cucumber dip!
The Italian Cream Cake is the best recipe I have ever tried.
I am definitely going to have to try the cream cake!
Good to know I’m not the only one who adores these cookbooks! I have a few Junior League cookbooks, but they are all southern. I’ll have to look for this one on Amazon! My favorite is from the Junior League in Austin, Texas, “The Collection a Cookbook” published in 1976. The recipe for Italian Cream Cake is amazing!
I am going to have to keep an eye out for that one! There is an Italian Cream Cake in Applehood and Motherpie too, I have never tried it, but now I want to!
I inherited my mother-in-law’s copy but haven’t made any recipes from it yet; I’m looking forward to see which recipes you try. One of my favorite cookbooks is from the First Presbyterian Church of East Rochester.
The Seafood Casserole is delish and definitely one of our favorites! I will have to keep an eye out for the East Rochester Cookbook, I like to stalk the book section of Goodwill and have found some good ones there 🙂
@Teresa Young, my 2 favorite recipes are the Mushroom Croustades and the Forest Hills Zucchini Soup.
Both are always a big hit.