The outstanding cookbook includes many German-Russian recipes including: Apple Dumplings, Apple Kuchen, Baked Kneplfa, Baking Power Dumplings, Blachinda, Bumbushka, Canned Cabbage, Canned Chicken (Spring or Turkey), Canned Sauerkraut, Canned Sausage Mix, Canned Smoked or Unsmoked Sausage, Canning Cherries, Canning Chicken, Cheese Cuttons, Chicken Noodle Soup, Choke Cherry Jam and Topping, Cooked Cheese (Shmera Kose), Creamed Chicken and Dumplings, Cucumber Relish, Cucumber Salad, Dough for Plegenda, Drop Chicken Dumplings, Drop Donuts or Kuechla, Dumpling Dough, Ein Lauf Soup (Egg Drop Soup), Elephant Ears, Fleischkuchla, German-Russian Hot Dish, German Hot Dish (Keiphla Buttons), German Lasagna, German Tomato Noodles, Gollodez (Jellied Pork Hocks), Grandma’s Knoephles, Hallupsie (Pigs in the Blanket), Hamburger Sauerkraut, Hochzeit Schnapps (Wedding Schnapps), Homemade Sauerkraut, Homemade Sausage, Jellied Pigs Feet, Kase Knepflas, Knepfla, Knepfla Soup, Krauft and Ham Strudel, Kraut Strudel, Kuchen, Kuchen Bars, Kuchen Filling, Lazy Halupsi, Lazy Ka Knepfla, Noodle Kugel, Pfefferneuse Cookies, Pickle Relish, Pickled Beets, Pickled Onions, Pickled Watermelon, Pigs in the Blanket, Plachenta, Potato Salad, Sauerkraut Cake, Sauerkraut Hot Dish, Sauerkraut Pork Pinwheel, Schlitz Kuechla, Stirrum, Strudel Dough, Strudels, Strudle Gravy, Stuffed Cabbage Casserole, Sweet Dough for Kuchen and Topping for Kuchen.
Historical family photographs as well as photos of these families are included: John Esslinger, George Esslinger, Jacob Eszlinger, Salomon Eszlinger, Katherina Esslinger, Christian Eszlinger, Lydia Eszlinger, Wilhelm Eszlinger nd Christoph Esslinger.
The Miscellaneous Section includes memories from family members: Amazing Cucumber, Beatitudes for the Housewives, Family Night of Fun, Happiness Recipe, 2011 Committee, Home Remedies, Household Hints, The Lighter Side, Lovin’ from the Oven, Old Remedies, Party Pleasers, Pretend Moca Mud Pie, Recipe for a Happy Family, Take Time for Ten Things, Veggie Variables, Weather Onion Calendar, Window Cleaner, Witches Brew – Good Homemade Cleaner, The Wonders of Coffee Filters and Approximate Equivalents or Substitutions in Baking and Cooking.
There is a Prayers and Sayings Section including German translated to English. Delbert Eszlinger provides German phrases with English translations.
