Another recipe book. This one from Castigliola Shrimp Company

Thank you!

Great. Thanks. They are interesting old (1950s) recipes.

Thanks MD and Rat! Just downloaded.

Man those look good! Can't wait to try some of them.

Thanks!

Meridian Dog,

thanks for sharing. I'm working on transcribing these recipes into a word/pdf file which I will share when finished (assuming this is OK by you).

Is there by chance a page missing between the page that starts with DEEP FIRED SOFT-SHELL CRABS and the page that starts with SHRIMP AND OKRA GUMBO? The context in the okra gumbo recipe leads me to think so and the photo sequence shows two left-hand pages in a row at the same location.

Thanks! I'm assuming you are ok with me posting the converted text version?

These recipes, and even the style of the printed cookbook, remind me of the simple recipes in the Don's Seafood cookbook that's been around for decades.

quote:

---

Here is the PDF version

---

That's awesome. Thanks.

I think the Castigliola family came from the Mississippi coast and were seafood (fish market) people for many many years before this little paper back book was published. I think the recipes were collected by Ms. C and her family for a long time before she wrote her little book. Since they ran a successful fish market, I am certain it helped business. My take on the book is that knowing Jackson back in the 50s and 60s, many of those recipes were "classy" cooking, not attempted by most cooks in the area.

The book was vintage 60s, but the recipes were likely much older than that. I doubt they all belonged to her, other than the fact I cook many things with no idea who the recipe came from, only that I have been cooking it for years the way I cook it.

One last thing - I think Ms. C was trying to teach 50s and 60s Jackson housewives how to cook dishes they might have never been exposed to, so that they would come shop at Castigiola's Shrimp company. By the way, it was the only source for fresh fish in Jackson, back then.