{"id":3925,"date":"2015-07-26T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T18:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2025-06-23T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:47:36","slug":"250-cookbooks-whittier-wildcat-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: Whittier Wildcat Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #121:<\/strong>\u00a0Whittier Wildcat Cookbook<\/em>, Whittier School Community, 19??.<\/p>\n

\"Whittier<\/a>“I have no idea where this book came from” reads my cookbook database. Nowhere in this book is a publication date. It is a “community cookbook” \u2013\u00a0 compiled by the teachers, parents and students at an elementary school. (Here is the first community cookbook<\/a> covered in this blog.) The introductory page thanks “Mary West-Smith” for typing all of the recipes on her word processor, so my guess is that it was produced in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n

“Whittier” at first calls to mind the city in Southern California. But no . . . “Whittier” is also an elementary school in Boulder, Colorado. A school on Pine and 20th.<\/p>\n

Well, this all is starting to make sense. We lived in a dumpy old house on Walnut, full of character (and characters), for a couple years in the mid-1970s. We called the house “Walnetto”. What times. The Whittier school was just a couple blocks from Walnetto. Perhaps a child or parent was going door-to-door with this cookbook and I bought it from them? Quite likely.<\/p>\n

And yes I googled this book. I found a couple references that confirm it was published in Boulder, Colorado \u2013 and the publication date is unknown. I could purchase it through AbeBooks.com<\/a> for $22.90 (!).<\/p>\n

Time to settle in and read. The recipes? Pretty good. Good homey main dishes for families (Pot Roast Breckenridge and Stayabed Stew). Salads for potlucks (7-Up Salad and Coco-Cola Salad). Breads and cakes and cookies and pies (Dump Cake and Turtle Cake and Monkey-Face Cookies). Many look so familiar they could have been in my own mother’s recipe box. Some are treasured family recipes:<\/p>\n

\"WWfamfav1\"<\/a>\"WWfamfav2\"<\/a>Some are international recipes:<\/p>\n

\"WWintl1\"<\/a>And special treats! Little kids contributed some of the drawings and recipes.<\/p>\n

\"WWkids1\"<\/a>\"WWkids2\"<\/a>\"WWkids3\"<\/a>\"WWkids4\"<\/a>\"WWkids5\"<\/a>\"WWkids6\"<\/a>I am going to make a Mexican chicken casserole for this blog. The cookbook has two similar recipes:<\/p>\n

\"WWMexCassRec1\"<\/a>\"WWMexCassRec2\"<\/a>(I also have a recipe for this casserole in my own collection \u2013 but I decide not to look at it until I am done cooking a Wildcat one.)<\/p>\n

Below is a combined version of the Whittier Wildcats recipes, with a couple small modifications of my own.<\/p>\n

Note: This casserole is a good way to use up leftover cooked chicken, but if you don’t have any around, cook one large boneless chicken breast for this recipe.<\/p>\n

Mexican Chicken Casserole 1<\/strong><\/a>
\nserves about 4<\/em><\/p>\n