Throughout the coobkook there are photographs of women and men who contributed their recipes. Memories are shared such as Irene (Morman) Wehri who provided the Cheese Cake recipe: "When our five children were young we always had a milk cow and from that milk, we always had plenty to make our own cottage cheese as well as have sweet cream and sour cream. This kuchen-like cheese cake used up these milk and cream products that were on hand. We also made our own butter and then would have fresh buttermilk to make fluffy pancakes the next day."
Albert Hoerauf who provided the Leberwurst (Liver Sausage) recipes writes, "When the weather turned cold in the fall, it was butchering time. The fattened hogs were killed. Nothing was wasted. The meat - tongue, brain, kidneys, heart, liver - even the intestines were used. The rumor was even the hogs squeals were used."
August Sayler's Dandelion Wine recipe is included. He writes: "Mary Kokot Schantz told when she was was little, August would pay her a nickle for every pail of dandelions she picked. When the families visited, the children would get a sip of the wine and she said it was the best tasting wine."
Lydia Mayer who provied the Pfeffernuse recipes writes: "All seven of our daughter's use this recipe for Christmas time. It woudn't be Christmas without them!" Many other fond memories of recipes, baking and cooking are included in this cookbook.
This excellent cookbook includes many German-Russian recipes: Apple Strudel, Baking Powder Noodles with Watermelon, Mom's Christmas Bread, Blachinda, Bun Dough, Cheese Buttons, Whole Wheat Bread, Cottage Cheese Knaepfla, Dumplings (Hungarian style), Knepfla Dumplings, Easter Bread, Eis Kupfe, German Strudels, Ice Kippfel, Knephla, Kuchle, Perogies, Potato Doughnuts, German Potato Pancakes, Potato Schupp Noodla, Potato Doughnut and Kuchen, Spaetzle, Strudla, and Cakes.
Pies and Desserts: Apple Crisp, Apple Pie, Apple Pudding Pie, Cheese Cake, Cranberry Apple Crisp, Drop Doughnuts, Custard Kuchen Filling, Fattigman, Cream Puffs, Fruit Cake, Perfect Bread Pudding, Ice Kippla, Special Birthday Kuechla, Zwiebelkuchen (Onion Kuchen), Mom's Homemade Ice Cream, Lemon Pie, Oatmeal Cake, Pear Kuchen, Rhubarb Custard Pie, Poppy Seed Cake, Prune Cake, Rhubarb Cream Pie, Steamed Chocolate Pudding, Sugar Kuchen, Sweet Rice, and Rice Pudding.
Canning and Beverages: Leberwurst (Liver Sausage), Canned Beef, Pork or Chicken, Choke Cherry Syrup, Bread and Butter Pickles, Pickled Beets, Chokecherry Jelly, Chokecherry Syrup, Crisp Watermelon Pickles, Dill Pickles, Garlic Dill Pickles, Pickled Beets, Pickled Pigs Feet, Chokecherry Pancake Syrup, Rose Hip Jelly, German Russian Dills (Rube Gurken im Topf), Sauerkraut Relish, Homemade Tomato Soup, Choke Cherry Wine, Kamillentee (Chamomile Tea), Dandelion Wine, Red Eye and Dennis Pickles.
Cookies: Anise Cookies, Anise Plaetzchen (A Christmas Cookie), Anise Platzhen, Banana Bars, Candy Lucy, Mrs. Groth's Crackling Cookies, Crips Christmas Cookies, Date Pinwheels, Date Surprises, Divinity, Fastnach Kueckkle (Doughnut), Fudge, Ginger Cream Cookies, Haselnusz Broetchen (Hazelnut breads or cookies), Lebkuchen, Lemon Cheese Bars, Leib Kuchen, Moco Bars, Molasses Cookies, Orange Slices, Peppernuts, Pfeffernusse, Raising Spice Bars, Springele, and Spritz Grapfen.
Meats: Baked Fleischkuchle, Chicken and Noodles, Ma Tibor's Boiled Potato and Egg in Sauce, Creamed Chicken, Easter Casserole, Fleisch Kuechla, Halupsy, Hollupsy (German) Pig in the Blanket, Klocladets - Pigs Feet, Nipfula and Kraut, Rose Beef German Russian Style, Runzas, Sauerkraut & Meatballs, Sauerkrautbrot, and Alfred Klein Pork Sausage Recipe.
Salads, Vegetables & Miscellaneous: Mom's Cole Slaw Dressing, Lime Jell-O Salad, Creamed Onion Tops, Mom Kinnischtzke's Potato Salad, Homemade Mustard, Salat iz Rediska (Radish Salad), Ogurtsy v Smetane (Cucumbers in Sour Cream), Potato Dressing Salad, Creamy Scalloped Potatoes, Sauerkraut Relish, Cheese Puffs, Ma Tibor's Homemade Cheese, Kinderbrei (Children's Custard), Soothing Drink for Throat and Cough, Crab Apple Sauce, Homemade Horseradish, Homemade Lye Soap, Starter Yeast and Baked Prunes with Orange Slides.
Soups: Autumn Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, Homemade Egg Noodles, My Favorite Bean Soup, Cabbage Soup, Borscht, Homemade Tomato Soup, Paprikash Soup (Hungarian), Hungartian Beef Paprikash Soup, Potato Bacon Soup, Knephla Soup, Milichnudelsupp (Milk Soup and Noodles), Paprikash Soup with Knepfla, and Sausage Potato Soup.
