Saturday, August 3, 2019

Salmon for a Late-Summer Kitchen

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Happy August! It's the last really hot month of the year, so Peg Bracken's The I Hate to Cook Almanack (1976) offers two ways to coo...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Better Homes and Gardens thinks "Junior" is code for "full of canned fruit"

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July is almost over! If you haven't done anything fun with the kids out on summer break (if you were careless enough to have kids in the...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Funny Names: Beach Edition

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I love this recipe from The Best from the Blade Cookbook (edited by Mary Alice Powell for the Toledo Blade newspaper, 1960) because the tit...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The best what, exactly?

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The Best from the Blade Cookbooks  (edited by Mary Alice Powell for the Toledo  Blade  newspaper, 1960) starts out on a vaguely scolding n...
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Saturday, July 20, 2019

Grill with the fishes

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Let's take advantage of the heat wave by cooking outside! That would probably be a good option in 1959, before air conditioning was as c...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

A Book with a Heart of Ice

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It's darn hot-- so hot that I'll pretend Ice Cream (Mable and Gar Hoffman, 1981) isn't just a little too new for my mostly-...
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Saturday, July 13, 2019

Endurance Picnic Prep!

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July is National Picnic Month! That's why today I'm posting a couple of nice, relaxing picnic menus from The New Age Vegetarian Cook...
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