The Spirit of Seventy-Six!

In honor of the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, all recipes through July 4, 2026 will be from Centennial and Bicentennial cookbooks and the 1796 first American cookbook. Enjoy this look at the (gastronomic) spirit of ’76 as we head into the sestercentennial!

I’ve also published a Sestercentennial Cookery with recipes and photos.

Bread and Butter Refrigerator Pickles: Thelma Featherstone’s One-Gallon Pickles, from the 1975 Fruitport Bicentennial Cook Book.; seventies; 1970s; recipe; America’s Bicentennial; Fruitport, Michigan; pickles

These wonderful bread-and-butter pickles take only a few days to make, and keep indefinitely. They’re a great part of a vegetable tray on any potluck, and a great snack in general.

I’ve always liked bread-and-butter pickles with fish sandwiches, and these are great with salmon burgers. Make them now, and be ready for the summer season!

Drop in again soon for another vintage recipe! I’ll have a different recipe every Sunday afternoon throughout the year. Keep an eye on this page or subscribe to the RSS feed for further details. You can also browse past featured Club recipes as well as some of the vintage promotional cookbooks I’ve used as sources. And I collect many of these recipes in A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book.

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You have to share some of the preparation in the kitchen with friends. — Jacques Pépin (Essential Pépin)