Comments on: Elsie’s Way

By: Heather Masterton

Heather Masterton — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:39:03 +0000

Good evening, friends, middle Masterton sister Heather here (now down here in Asheville, NC near the famous Laurey)- Loving this thread spread over a few years – if you all are looking in on it from time to time, please accept our family’s thanks for being such faithful fans. I was trying to see if the recipe for Elsie’s Sour Cream Waffles was somewhere online – and found this thread. I too purchase copies of the out-of-print cookbooks to give to friends – love especially the ones which have been really cooked over!! Feel free to write to me heather@clovispoint.com…. sisters Lucinda and Laurey continue to thrive! Kind regards, Heather Masterton of Blueberry Hill

By: Cornbread Please

Cornbread Please — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

I used to have The Blueberry Hill Cookbook and copied many of the recipes in it onto my computer. Over time, the book fell apart from overuse and I threw it out because I had all the recipes in it I used on my computer by then. THEN one horrid day my computer crashed and I lost my recipe collection!!! I should really just order the book all over again, and I think I will, but in the interim, would you mind terribly posting Elsie’s recipe for Blueberry Cornbread? It was my tried and true cornberad recipe – I did reduce the sugar and the blueberries – more cake-like than other cornbreads. I miss that recipe and am too feeble and old to remember what was in it.

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.