Ye Olde Cookbook

Ye Olde Cookbook

What's Inside

Ye Olde Cookbook has a uniquely old Oregon slant, with 830 tried and true recipes from regional cooks. Recipes include those for wildlife and seafood, food and drink using wild berries hearty salads, potlucks, breads, and scrumptious desserts. Most recipes are old and have been used many times by several generations of cooks.

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Include your check for $25 ($20 plus shipping) made out to St John Episcopal Church

      Mail to St John Episcopal Church
   P O Box 246
                 (795 Franklin Ave)
                 Bandon, OR 97411

Bandon Community Health Center

Bandon Community Health Center is a certified Rural Health Center under a program established by Congress as a way to provide primary health care to medically underserved populations in rural America. The center is privately funded by grants and donations and sliding fees. Their sliding fee ranges from $10 to fully insured, so each patient is treated with dignity regardless of ability to pay the bill. They welcome anyone in need.

The professional staff includes a physician with hospital privileges who is trained in family practice, an adult nurse practitioner, and a women and children's nurse practitioner. Future plans are to provide services for men's medical issues, free Pap tests and mammograms for women, and a vaccine program for children.

Despite Bandon's image of being affluent, the area has a high degree of poverty, with 30% of the parents of children ages 5-17 below the poverty threshhold, compared with 24% for Coos County. As of January 2010, 55% of students in Bandon were on free or reduced lunch programs.

The Rev Susan Hazen writes that "St John Episcopal Church was determined to support the goals of BCHC. By supporting the center we are obeying Christ's command to feed the hungry and care for the sick."

The Dean of our South Coast Convocation advised that there was no diocesan charity specific to the South Coast. So, a cause was born. St John's launched the cookbook project, which included recipes from eleven churches and the communities.

The Last Supper window at St John's.

A Taste of Ye Olde Cookbook

Thanks to all who generously shared their favorite recipes with us. Ye Olde Cookbook has 830 recipes, including many for wild game and other pioneer/forager recipes. One favorite Halloween recipe is for this Frog Eye Salad, from Lorraine Potter of St Mary's, Gardiner.

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Frog Eye Salad

1 1/3 c bead pasta "acini pepe" (coucous may be substituted)
1(20-0z) can pineapple chunks, juice reserved
1 3/4 c milk
1/4 c sugar
1 (3-oz) pkg instant vanilla pudding
1 (8-oz) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 (11-oz) cans mandarin oranges, drained
2 c whipped topping
3 c miniature marshmallows
1 c shredded coconut (optional)

Cook pasta 11 minutes, as directed on package; drain, rinse well, and cool. In large bowl, mix 1/4 cup reserved pineapple juice, milk, sugar and pudding mix; beat for 2 minutes. Gently stir in pasta, pineapple, oranges, whipped topping, marshmallows and coconut. Refrigerate at least 5 hours. Serves 12.