About a month ago I had on hand a bag of peaches and wanted to make a quick dessert. My cookbook collection has grown and its easy now to just grab a cookbook and look for a suitable recipe. I found an interesting one in what is quickly becoming my favorite vintage cookbook, Ruth Berolzheimer’s, The American
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An Easy Fruit Dessert – Peach Pudding
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Boston- It’s Got More Than Beans, Pie, and Brown Bread!
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011The history of Back Bay cookies is somewhat a mystery even after quite a bit of sleuthing. The recipe is essentially the same as Boston Cookies found in Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook as far back as 1889. Earlier then that I’ve not found a reference to the cookie so it is quite possible that Fannie Farmer invented the cookie. Continue reading | 3 Comments
Waffling over Aunt Lillian’s Waffles
Sunday, June 5th, 2011As I was looking through Aunt Lillian’s cookbook, it struck me that Aunt Lillian’s recipe for waffles might be a fun and simple recipe to make – certainly all the ingredients are on hand at any time in our kitchen.
Dan and I have a special fondness for waffles having made them since we started dating using a vintage waffle iron that belonged to his Aunt Faye. That is… Continue reading | 2 Comments
A History of the Use of Molasses vs Sugar
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The cookies with Aunt Lilly's recipe
This blog was going to be about the molasses cookies I made last week. Great cookies made from Aunt Lilly’s recipe. And as I was adding the photos I realized, whoops! I have already blogged about Aunt Lilly’s Molasses Cookie recipe in my second… Continue reading | 4 Comments
Blueberry Muffins – An All American Favorite
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Muffins have been around in our food culture for a long time. The word muffin first appears in print in the 18th century and appears as a recipe by the mid-18th century. I found two different descriptions of where the word came from. One source claimed it was an old French term which when applied to bread means soft. The other… Continue reading
Cabbage – A Victorian vegetable rediscovered.
Sunday, July 11th, 2010There are quite a few cabbage recipes in Great Aunt Lillian’s cookbook. It’s the end of the “spring” season cabbage weather here in the south and we won’t get any more in our local Farmer’s Market’s (I’m partial to the Five Points Market that takes place right outside my museum door!) until fall.
I’ve been meaning to make the interesting… Continue reading
Local Food – Shop it, Eat it, Save it
Friday, September 18th, 2009This year of shopping without chains has changed so much of how we think about our purchases. For instance, this summer Dan and I have, for the first time ever, gotten to know who is producing much of the food we eat. I really never gave this a thought prior to this summer. Food just appeared at the grocery store or the organic
