4-H recipes are available

Many 4-H members remember making snickerdoodles, wheat bread, funny cake, and brownies when learning food skills as part of their 4-H project work. Over the years, the memories remained, but the recipes were lost. Now a cookbook, "Favorite Recipes of Illinois 4-H Through the Years," includes all of the most requested recipes from the past 60 years and is available from the Illinois 4-H Foundation.

“Fairly often I hear from a former 4-Her who is looking for a lost recipe,” said Jananne Finck, University of Illinois Extension educator for nutrition and wellness in Springfield and a member of the fundraising committee for the cookbook. “Anyone who took a foods project in 4-H will enjoy this book. It is a delight to see them organized and contained in one publication.”

More than 150 recipes from 4-H foods project books such as You Learn to Bake, ABCs of Food, Adventures in Cooking, It’s Fun to Cook, Milk and Eggs, Meat in Your Meals, Pastry in Your Meals, and Yeast Breads in Your Meals are included in this spiral bound cookbook. Recipes are listed by book, alphabetically, and by food category for easy reference.

The cookbook costs $15 plus shipping. It can be ordered online at www.4hfoundation.illinois.edu or by completing an order form available from the local Extension office. Bundles of 10 cookbooks are also available for a slight discount.