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Woburn Boys & Girls Club Hosting Retro Recipes Class

The baking class will give students in grades 6-12 a chance to bake classic desserts using old recipes from the Woburn Public Library.

In the Retro Recipes: Teen Cooking Class, Woburn students will have a chance to bake desserts using recipes from Woburn Public Library's Glennon Archives. The April 19 class will be at the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club of Woburn.
In the Retro Recipes: Teen Cooking Class, Woburn students will have a chance to bake desserts using recipes from Woburn Public Library's Glennon Archives. The April 19 class will be at the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club of Woburn. (Peggy Bayard/Patch)

WOBURN, MA — The Boys & Girls Club of Woburn and Woburn Public Library are teaming up to give local students a chance to do some old school baking.

At 2 p.m. on April 19, Retro Recipes: Teen Cooking Class will take place in the state-of-the-art kitchen at the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club of Woburn, 1 Charles Gardner Ln. The two-hour class, held during April Vacation, is for students in Grades 6-12.

Registration is available on the library website, and students can register individually or in a group. As of Thursday, eight of 16 spaces were available, according to the library website.

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According to organizers, the recipes will be selected from real antique cookbooks from Woburn Public Library's Glennon Archives.

"In small groups, (students) will be baking either a cookie, cake, pie, or pudding recipe, then we will share our delicious creations with everyone and get to take home copies of all the recipes," event organizers said in a statement.

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