The Spirit of Seventy-Six!

In honor of the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, all recipes through July 4, 2026 will be from Centennial and Bicentennial cookbooks and the 1796 first American cookbook. Enjoy this look at the (gastronomic) spirit of ’76 as we head into the sestercentennial!

I’ve also published a Sestercentennial Cookery with recipes and photos.

Marinated Mushrooms: Gertraud McCamant’s Marinated Mushrooms, from the 1975 Our Cookin’ Heritage, of the Copperas Cove, Texas, Trinity Lutheran Church.; mushrooms; wine; seventies; 1970s; garlic; recipe; America’s Bicentennial; pickles; Copperas Cove, Texas

It’s time to start getting ready for Independence Day! These are a great choice to make several days ahead of time. You may wish to shake the jar gently from time to time to keep the flavors from settling out.

These can of course be served with toothpicks as appetizers or in a bowl to be spooned out as a side.

Drop in again soon for another vintage recipe! I’ll have a different recipe every Sunday afternoon throughout the year. Keep an eye on this page or subscribe to the RSS feed for further details. You can also browse past featured Club recipes as well as some of the vintage promotional cookbooks I’ve used as sources. And I collect many of these recipes in A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book.

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When I feel sad, I need a bowl of leek and potato soup. — Jacques Pépin (Today's Gourmet: Garlic Soup)