The Times Leader Cookbook
Times Leader (1985)
This cookbook was two dollars at the Slatington Marketplace. I did a little research and found that I got it for three dollars less than it cost back in 1985.
Most of the recipes that I saw in here look pretty good, but one of them caught my interest. My grandmother used to make a hearty ground beef and potato stew that she called Missouri that I especially enjoyed on cold days. She'd make it in a pot that was big enough to feed the army, so we usually had it for at least two or three days any time that she made it.
I had never heard of any soup or stew called Missouri other than from her, so I always assumed that it was a concoction that she came up with at some point, but there it was in this recipe book.
My grandmother's Missouri had large chunks of potatoes, and I'm pretty sure she either used tomatoes or tomato paste in it too, but I could be wrong about that. I'm going to have to give this a shot over the winter.
