The Junior League Project

I'm so excited to start this new project in my kitchen.  Have I told y'all that I collect vintage cookbooks?  I adore their instructions which evoke a bygone world, replete with instructions on how to deal with your help, menus for parties in which you don't have the aid of helpers, and a myriad of ways to help a housewife.  Having help for parties is one thing which I sorely lack.  I was green with envy over a dear friend at Georgia, who's mama would send her housekeeper up to Athens to clean her house before she had a big party.  Her mama also surprised her with an adorable zebra print trench-coat, which I coveted.

But I digress.

So I have a huge stack of these cookbooks from the fifties and sixties, as well as an enormous pile of Junior League cookbooks.  If you're out and about, and you run into a Junior League cookbook (especially in the South), buy it.  These ladies know what they're about.  So, once or so a week, y'all are going to be treated to some favorite, and well, interesting recipes from these cookbooks.  First up will be a classic- River Road Recipes.

You can see I'm ready- shirtdress, hose, pearls, and . . .

Hmmm.

Hope my slippers don't get me kicked out of the Junior League.  Or as it is commonly pronounced down here- the "June-ya-leeg"