Wednesday, June 29, 2022

A book to commemorate long-lost recipes, some deservedly so and some not

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Independence day is coming, so it seemed like as good a time as any to dig into my stash of bicentennial-themed cookbooks. People must reall...
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

A Tale of Two Banana Breads

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I love it when my cookbooks have traces of previous cooks-- a note about what they liked, or didn't like, or what they'd do differen...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Hemlock recipes... No! I just mean they're FROM Hemlock, not made with it.

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I always worry when I come across cookbooks with super-generic names at antique malls or thrift stores. I know I have fundraising cookbooks ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2022

Funny Name: There's Gotta be a Story Edition

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From the title of today's recipe from  Christ the Rock Lutheran Church 10 Year Anniversary Family Recipes   (1999), I assume those churc...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Sanyo sets a very low bar for miracles

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Things rough in your life right now? Maybe you need a miracle? Well, if the miracle you need could be of the microwave-based variety (unlike...
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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Yes, there are recipes, but you'll stay for the cartoons

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The Camper's Cookbook (Alma Pillot and Deborah Roth, 1976) is a very slim volume-- only 32 pages total, and the last two are just blank ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Cakes! Cakes! Cakes!

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June is here! It's that time when '70s brides traditionally sweated through their layers of white organza as they tried not to drag ...
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