Comments on: Elsie’s Way

By: joan bell

joan bell — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:04:15 +0000

Elsie’s books were already out of print when I discovered the two cookbooks at my little library. I loved them so much that I kept checking them out, returning them, checking them out again. It didn’t appear that anyone besides me was taking them out, so—I claimed to have lost them, paid up to the library, and they were MINE! By dint of haunting used book sales, I acquired the rest of her books.

I am now a little old lady (where have the years gone?), Elsie’s books safely in my daughter’s keeping—she treasures them as much as I did. Rock on, Elsie!

By: Mary Whiting

Mary Whiting — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:45:05 +0000

I inherited my mother’s “Elsie” books when mom passed away. I grew up with Blueberry Hills books on mom’s bedside table and they have become part of my memories of her.

Great books -

By: Donald Morcone

Donald Morcone — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:07:25 +0000

I stumbled upon The Blueberry Hill Cookbook in the library when I was in college in the 1970s and just learning to cook and loved it so much that I never returned it! (I did however pay the library for the book.) Mrs. Masterton’s recipes have become part of my life and for over 30 years recipes such as Blueberry Buckle, Mama’s Sponge Cake and Ephrata’s Lemon Pie are staples in my kitchen repertoire.

Thank you Mrs. Masterton. And yes, they are “yankee biscuits!”

By: martha soderberg

martha soderberg — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:17:32 +0000

Just for the record, Tony did not buy Blueberry Hill; I did, with my money, before we were married. He seems to keep forgetting that… M

By: Karen A Hill

Karen A Hill — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:56:18 +0000

I “discovered” Elsie’s cookbooks when we lived in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts from 1978 to 1981. I searched high and low and managed to buy the four books. It is now 2010 and I still use them.

By: The Morris Family Pâté » Comfort (Able) Foods

The Morris Family Pâté » Comfort (Able) Foods — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:56:20 +0000

[...] The Morris Family Pâté Dips & Party Stuff, Recipes Add comments Jun 272010 This recipe, originally made by my Mom (for years and years), was adapted from a recipe of Elsie Masterson’s from a cookbook entitled Blueberry Hill Cookbook. There is a wonderful article and tribute to Elsie Masterson that can be found in a blog that I came across that can be found here: http://dianacooks.com/2008/05/28/elsies-way/. [...]

By: Kim Butterfield

Kim Butterfield — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:41:33 +0000

I’m still using the recipes from Blueberry Hill. My grandparents, Glenn and Ethel Morse, started visiting Blueberry Hill for Elsie’s wonderful cooking and our families became friends. Elsie was kind enough to come talk to my junior high Future Homemakers of America group. I remember spending a day with the girls at Blueberry Hill and skiing at High Pond with Lucinda. As a child I thought Elsie and John were so interesting, kind and fun to be around and I was saddened by their early deaths. Today my husband and I walked our woodlot in Leicester with a neighbor who went to school with Heather. So great to hear that Laurey has followed in her parents’ footsteps!

By: Becca Peterson

Becca Peterson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:53:51 +0000

Thank you for sharing a story of Elsie Masterton – I was born in 1958 and lived in Middlebury, Vermont while in grade school – when my mom discovered Elsie’s cookbooks – and the recipes within have become part of our family’s story. Many recipes are our family’s favorites. Elsie’s brownies are my friends’ favorite of my baking. I have collected copies of the cookbooks for my siblings, scouring eBay and Amazon.com several years ago. I love to read them over and over and discover new tidbits about cooking I didn’t see the first read through or find a recipe that I now know must have been the one my mom used.

By: Alice Pfister

Alice Pfister — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:15:31 +0000

Many years ago I found her cookbook at the library. I read it thru and thru. I found a recipe for cornbread in it and copied it on a rrecipe card. I have lost it thru a move (or two)My library doesn’t have ite book anymore and I just don’t have the money to buy it. It costs over

By: Judith Litvich

Judith Litvich — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:04:43 +0000

After reading a NY Times article by Sarah Tuff in which she talked about a recent ski adventure in Vermont, referencing Blueberry Hill Inn, I started to search for more information on the Mastertons. (I also sent a ‘note’ to Ms. Tuff.)

I was there! In 1950, that is. I spent the summer of my freshman year in college at Blueberry Hill Farm, where the motto was “Nothing Whatever to Do.” I waited on tables, helped take care of 2-year old Lucinda, cleaned rooms and picked wild blueberries. Elsie was warm and welcoming — to me and to her ‘guests.’

Thank you for writing about Elsie’s cookbooks.

Judith