The deadline for the recipe contest has passed. We are still evaluating recipes, and expect to have winnowed down the entries by fall of 2005.
Announcing the Next Peace Hill Contest: Quick and Easy Recipes for Harried Homeschool Families

At least once a month, someone posts on our message boards, "What can I make for supper?" (or, "breakfast," or "lunches," or "healthy snacks"). Immediately, a dozen wonderful recipes appear. More than once, a poster has suggested that Peace Hill Press collect these recipes. We've decided that the time has come!

We'd like to put together a cookbook for parents who teach, write, clean house, change diapers, program computers, keep accounts, run small businesses, drive trucks ... and all those other things that you do. And we'd very much like to include your favorite recipes.

Here are the guidelines for those who'd like to contribute:

  1. We're tentatively planning to divide the cookbook into Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and Stuff (that would be play-do, bubble solution, and so forth). Mark your recipe as one of the above.
  2. If you know the source for your recipe, please include it. If it came from an existing cookbook, please give us complete bibiliographical information and page number, so that we can clear any necessary copyrights. If your recipe had its beginnings in a published recipe, but you have altered it significantly over time, it is generally considered to be your own; however, we'd like to see just how much you modified it, so that we don't unintentionally violate someone else's intellectual property rights.
  3. We can receive recipes by e-mail at recipes@peacehillpress.net. If you send an e-mail recipe, we MUST have your full name, your snail-mail address, and your phone number so that we can contact you. As always, this is private information which will not be shared with anyone OR used by Peace Hill Press for any purpose unrelated to the recipe book.
  4. If you'd like to mail your recipe, send it to Recipes, Peace Hill Press, 18101 The Glebe Lane, Charles City, VA 23030. Please include your phone number in your cover letter, and your e-mail address if you have one.
  5. Please write on the recipe somewhere how long it takes to prepare it. (Here in the office, one of our staff who will remain unnamed suggested that you might want to include a Mom Time and a Dad Time — i.e., a time for both experienced and inexperienced cooks. Apologies to those dads who are competent in the kitchen.) If the recipe is particularly easy to make with children, please indicate this (and let us know what ages you have in mind).
  6. Please feel free to include any interesting information such as, "My aunt Edna learned how to make this while on a walkabout with Aborigines in the 1920s." We'd like to make this cookbook as interesting as possible. (However, this information should be true.)
  7. The deadline for submission is April 1, 2005. We'll contact everyone whose recipe is selected in the fall of 2005.

If your recipe is selected, you'll get a listing in the "Contributor Notes," a free copy of the cookbook, and your choice of any other book published by Peace Hill Press.

Please contribute! We look forward to trying out your favorite recipes here at the Peace Hill Press Test Kitchen.