With the recent surge in the popularity of comfort food, the reissue of the home-cooking bible, The Treasury of Newfoundland Dishes, is perfect for any foodie’s kitchen. Nobody does comfort food like folks on The Rock.

The cookbook was first published in 1958 by the Maple Leaf Milling Company, makers of Cream of the West flour, and edited by Sally West and the Newfoundland Home Economics Association. It included hundreds of Newfoundland staples, but sadly went out of print in 1983, until 2008, when it was re-released by Newfoundland- and Nova Scotia-based Boulder Publications.

The Treasury’s format is reminiscent of the cookbooks put together by ladies auxiliaries of that era for fundraising. Coil-bound and featuring a reproduction of the 1950s cover, each page contains four to six easy-to-prepare recipes. It’s the perfect book for bringing back old memories, and creating new ones

Boulder Publications (boulderpublications.ca); $19.95 ~AB