WASP Wednesday: WASP Cookbook

We already covered WASP food on WASP Wednesday a few months back, but I realized I never once made mention on the WASP Cookbook! How dare I, I know!
Alexandra Wentworth collected recipes from her WASPy friends and their families and put them all in to a navy velvet covered book. Like any good WASP, she is able to make fun and play along as she dishes out the details on all the WASPiest of events! Easy recipes (WASP like simple and quick as we know) cover the pages that are organized my season. Everything from The Blessing of the Hounds (Winter) to the Annual Family Meeting (Spring) to the Croquet Breakfast (Summer) to A Middleburg Foxhunt (Autumn) is covered. While I wish I could include everything, I can only divulge a few details to those of you that do not own the cherished book.

A Middleburg Foxhunt
"Whereas to the ordinary citizen a foxhunt might refer to trolling for a suitable mate, to the WASP a foxhunt means exactly that - hunting for foxes. (In WASP parlance, searching for a suitable mate is known as buying a BMW.) Foxhunting is really the WASP's tour de force, which is why it's always prominently displayed in oil paintings, on needlepoint pillows, on toilet seat covers, and everywhere else one might look in a WASP estate. In the autumn mornings, you can hear the horn and the yelping of the hounds as they jump stone fences and parade through your field. (Not a good day to wear the fox stoll.)

Katie's Hunt Spread
Serves 15-20
3 cups ground country ham
1 8 ounce package cream cheese
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Place the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth. Serve with stone ground wheat crackers.
Now run on over to Amazon and pick up your copy to day (if you are lucky you might be able to scoop up the $6.99 copy I just spotted!)!!

Check out Wasp Wednesday for an additional Middleburg Foxhunt recipe!!