Grannie Pantries

A place to appreciate the horrors of vintage cookbooks

Saturday, August 31, 2019

Here comes September with odds, ends, and jibblies

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Peg Bracken's The I Hate to Cook Almanack  (1976) marks September with a "Harvest of Extra-Simple Fast Recipes" since Septembe...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Digesting the Kitchen Digest

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Today we have a well-loved copy of  The Kitchen Digest (Circle of Ruth Presbyterian Church, Nelsonville, Ohio, undated, but the addresses ...
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Funny Name: Not so Whacky

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Mrs. Beverly Bourque was outraged the first time she heard the phrase "wacky tobacky." How dare the dope fiends name their vic...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

A ladies' luncheon that will ruin your blender

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Ann Seranne's Good Food with a Blender  (1974) is full of all the recipes I'd expect from an old blender cookbook: meat and veggie...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

In which your humble writer makes some bananas very sad

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You're in for a treat today! Yes, it's a bonus post for the SIXTH annual Pieathalon. Just like last year , I was lucky enough to get...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

An unusual guest teases the sixth annual Pieathalon!

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This morning, a special guest bounded into my office. "Wow! This is quite the collection of old cook books! And people think I'm ob...
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Saturday, August 17, 2019

Funny Name: Homophone Follies Edition

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Something tells me that Mrs. Morris Fink was a little too optimistic (and perhaps, deaf to sarcasm). She thought "Crumby Orange Chi...
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