Today would have been Mayor Richard J. Daley’s 122nd birthday. In his honor, I’m posting an artifact from his last campaign, in 1975. Here we have a recipe from the mayor’s wife, Eleanor “Sis” Daley.
The recipe is in a pocket-size 32-page booklet titled Shopping Tips—Compliments of Mayor Richard J. Daley. It’s actually a pretty useful tool for your trip to the grocer. There are tables of weights and measures, a guide to the amount of vegetables to buy based on the size of your family, as well as homey reminders to always shop from a list, check expiration dates, look for seasonal sales, and so on.
I must admit that our family never did try Mrs. Daley’s white bread recipe. If anyone does do that baking and you like the result, please tell me—or better still, tell Rich Daley.
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