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Ever since the days of the early quilting bees, we seem to associate quilting and cooking as related arts.  The ladies who gathered to help one another on their quilting projects usually enjoyed eating together, too.  Then in the evening their families might join for a social evening.
When my daughter’s fabric arts group meets, they sometimes gather for lunch.  They at least have snacks at these gatherings and often exchange recipes.
Quilters also post recipes in their newsletters, such as Deb and Jill do at Fat Quarter Quilters.  In fact, when I checked out their latest newsletter this morning, I found …read more

It seems that quilters continue to enjoy recipes, as they did in the old-fashioned quilting bee days.  I’ve found a number of of recipes published fairly regularly in newsletters for quilters.  Apparently the Fat Quarter Quilters e-newsletter publishes recipes in most every edition.
The most recent recipe is for Buttermilk Noodle Pudding, which seems to be a variation of rice pudding.  No history is published about the recipe.  But it does sound like one that could have been prepared by quilters of days ago when they used buttermilk a great deal in their cooking.
To subscribe to the free e-newsletter, go to: www.fatquarterquilters.com/news.htm .

I’ve noticed some of the quilting newsletters sometimes contain recipes.  Also, quilters frequently publish cookbooks with recipes and food ideas from various members of a guild or online group.  This collecting of recipes may date back to the early quilting bees which was a social time with food and fun along with working on quilts.
For many years I’ve written a “Country Kitchen” column for print newspapers.  Nowadays some of the columns also appear online.  If you’d like to browse through some of the columns and recipes, you’ll find a collection at Old Fashioned Living (www.oldfashionedliving.com/recipes.html ).  Scroll down until you …read more

Throughout the years, quilters have been interested in recipes (exchanging them, serving at quilting bees, collecting into recipe books).  It’s not unusual to find an occasional recipe in a quilting newsletter or on a web site.  Havasu Quilts has offered raspberry recipes recently in occasional e-newsletters.
This week, you’ll find one for “Raspberry Pretzel Squares,” which looks delicious and is very timely during raspberry season.  You’ll find the recipe at: http://www.havasuquilts.com/newsletter/newsletter.html .