Monday, December 7th, 2009
Betty Crocker's Ultimate Cookie Book (1992) is the main source for this Ultimate Brownie -- I chose that recipe because it calls for no less than...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
This unusual recipe for an orange peel-flavored quick bread comes from Marion Cunningham's Fannie Farmer Cookbook (1986). Full disclosure: the...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
"Old lady cake" seems an unflattering name for a delicious, spice filled cake -- maybe it's so named as a tribute to the recipe's...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
This spinach and zucchini casserole, from Richard Olney's Simple French Food (1974), is easy enough to prepare, although having about 1 and 1/2...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Let's say you've had a last minute change of plans, and are heading out to a Thanksgiving feast but...
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The final pages of Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cookbook (published in 1896) include menu suggestions for family meals, all very...
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The Fannie Farmer Cookbook (Marion Cunningham, 1986) promises that this cake "can be made very quickly," and it certainly can. Requiring no...
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The combination of white bread, cheddar cheese, and canned mushrooms might at first sound positively ghastly -- it just shrieks "bourgeois 1950s...
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There are times when you want something sweet and home baked for dessert, even if you worked all day and have no intention of going out shopping for...
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With the holidays approaching, it's time to think about turkey and stuffing. My favorite stuffing/dressing in the whole world -- not that I've...
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