Saturday, February 28, 2026

Some OLD recipes (and old problems)

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Mountain Makin's in the Smokies: A Cookbook  (The Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association) is from 1957, but s lot of the reci...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Of smoke and cornmeal

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Surprise! Today, we're looking at a cookbook I don't really want to make fun of because it seems like such an earnest effort, with r...
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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Funny Name: What's the Bo Status? Edition

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When I got to this recipe from  Recipes: Homemade Happiness  (compiled by Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Miller (Marie) for the Archdale, NC Wesleyan W...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Wear-Ever you go, aluminum cookware will be there for your health

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"Wear-Ever" New Method of Cooking (1935) promises a lot from their aluminum pans, with the cover suggesting improvements in health...
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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Something hot to get you through February... Hope you're not too picky

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Since we were just looking at the Cooks' Round Table of Endorsed Recipes  supplement about vegetables from February 1951 , let's fol...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Easy, one-dish meals that kind of aren't....

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I love that the foreword of McCall's Book of Wonderful One-Dish Meals  (edited by Kay Sullivan, 1972) tries to align itself with "W...
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Enduring both winter and canned vegetables

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In the depths of winter, it used to be hard to get fresh veggies. (And honestly, what with the price of groceries and the often-dicey qualit...
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