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Category: Recipe
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Nom Pum: Coconut Waffles
I’ve been working on making Pho from scratch, and a friend with a terrible sense of humor wanted to know if I would also be making Phi, Phee, and Phum. So just to amuse myself, I looked up recipes for them. And they exist, at least in some form. The recipe for Phum (Pum) caught…
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Vintage Kitchen: Blackberry Flummery
A while back, my mother-in-law, the remarkable woman who bore and raised my First Reader, gave me a precious gift. We had been talking about this series, where I’m cooking from old cookbooks, some of which were originally my great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mom’s books. She got up and marched into her kitchen, pulled this book…
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No-Bake Mango Cheesecake
So this is an extrapolated recipe from Shadowdancer Duskstar, who put it in the comments of a recent post. The Ginja Ninja loves mango, and as we took a trip to Jungle Jim’s and I was able to score a few nice ripe ones (although they were Brazilian, I’m not sure what the difference would…
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Vintage Kitchen: Muster Gingerbread
This was a somewhat challenging recipe to make, as you’ll see that there are no directions for making the cookies, just a list of ingredients. What I decided that I would do was to mix the ingredients up, and cook them as if I were making one of my other gingerbread recipes. One thing I…
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Vintage Kitchen: Bread Pudding
I grew up eating bread pudding. It’s a cheap, filling breakfast (or dessert, more on that later) that uses up things we usually had in abundance: bread, milk, and eggs. Since we were milking goats, kept chickens, and making homemade bread which stales if you look at it funny, it was a great option. Later…
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Vintage Kitchen: Eggs in Bacon Nests
“You have to make this,” the First Reader told me. “It’ll show that the bacon craze isn’t a new thing.” The recipe he was referring to comes from the 1929 International Cook Book, so yes, bacon has been popular for a long time, and yes, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen recipes very like this one…
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Vintage Kitchen: Mushroom Dream
Week three of cooking through my heirloom antique and vintage cookbook collection, and I’m serving up a recipe that made my First Reader’s eyes light up when he saw it. He loves anything that calls for mushrooms. This recipe comes from the 1929 International Cook Book, and you can find some of the contributors in…
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Vintage Kitchen: Glazed Honey Rolls
Welcome to the second week of Vintage Kitchen, where I’m making recipes from old cookbooks. Some of them are family heirlooms, some are not. This week, I pulled a recipe for breakfast out of the cookbook my Great-Grandma Ella left me when she passed away. The cookbook reminds me of her kitchen, and the things…
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Vintage Kitchen: Making Antique Recipes in a Modern Era
I’m writing this in the science fiction present – the twenty-first century. The year is 2017, and while we may not have flying cars, personal jetpacks, or portals that instantly pop us out anywhere in the world we want to be, I do have a microwave, digital oven, the world-wide-web on my personal tablet with…
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Blue-Blueberry Lemon Cake
So the Junior Mad Scientist and the Ginja Ninja had a combination birthday celebration and going-away party. They requested cake, and ice cream. Sounds perfectly normal, right? This is the Writer’s House. We do a lot of things around here. Normal is rarely one of them. I got a text. “We want a blue cake.…
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Feed the Brain, Feed the Soul
When is a cookie not just a cookie? The First Reader asked me yesterday if I would make cookies for him. He had talked about this the other day, so it wasn’t like he was springing a Monday night surprise on me after a long day at work. And the weather was perfect for baking,…
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Blackberries & Cream Cobbler
The key to a perfect cobbler is understanding the fruit. This means, of course, that you should be tasting it and paying attention. Such a rough chore, but for my family, I’ll nibble berries while baking! We brought home three (scant) quarts of berries yesterday, and I promised the First Reader a cobbler as soon…