Planning for thing a day, sometimes I get confused.

One of my thoughts for thing a day is that I'd like to make food out of as many of those old "church cookbook" type of cookbooks I can get my hands on.  Failing that, something that is at least reasonably obscure.  I don't actually have all that many of the "church cookbooks", but I have a couple, and I have some obscure cookbooks.

So, for the moment, I've been looking through the Greater Albuquerque Family Child Care Association's cookbook, My roommate's Aunt J's cookbook, my recipe card book, the Red chile Bible, the Green Chile Bible, Virginia Bed & Breakfast Cookbook (probably the lease obscure of the obscure), and the Pie Town, New Mexico Cookbook.

Long ago, and far away, say about July across the country, I had more peaches than I could shake a stick at.  And I decided to freeze some of them, so I could make peach pie in December, when I knew my friends and I would be craving something different.  Little did I know that I'd be moving in December. So now thing a day is coming up, and I still have frozen peaches (hey, I was moving in the winter, it was easy to move frozen foods!).  I also have a cookbook from Pie Town, New Mexico, and I know their pie rules. (I went to the most recent Pie Festival.  The pie ruled so much they ran out of pie.  Mmm.... pie....)

If you, like me, see the wonderousness that could be possible from this combination of items, I bet you're just drooling right now.  I've found a good pie crust recipe, though I may need some pie stones.  What I haven't found is a good looking peach pie recipe.  I know they're in here.  I had peach pie at the pie festival.  It was tasty.

I bet you, like me, are saying, "Go to the index, woman!  Peach Pie awaits!  PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Problem:  I went to the index.  It's in page number order.  The GAFCCA cookbook is in aphabetical order by recipe name rather than major ingredient(s), but that's at least 90% functional.  This index?  Not so useful.  I can't just look up peach pie and have three to five fabulous recipes for peach pie.

Woe is me.  Now I have to look through the whole cookbook.  The whole Pie Town pie cookbook.  Clearly, my life is tragic.