I’ve been busy today and yesterday preparing for another Homeschooler Day tomorrow (Friday) out at Wyckoff. Tasks such as purchasing supplies, rounding up equipment, doing partial cooking, taking items out to the Museum, and so on have occupied my time. It’s to be warm and sunny weather, so that’ll be nice. I’ll give a full [...]
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homeschool cooking
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“the best sort of catsup…”
Posted in culinary history, historic cookbooks, historic receipts (recipes), research & experiments, tagged food history, historic cookbooks, tomato catsup/ketchup, tomatoes on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When writing about tomatoes not long ago, I mentioned that they weren’t accepted in this country until the first part of the 19th century. There was the one lone receipt for “keeping” tomatoes in order to make winter soups in Harriet Pinckney Horry’s 1770 manuscript, but that was pretty much it. Then, lo and behold, [...]
beggin’ your pardon
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I know, I know. I’ve been extremely lax in posting entries lately. I do apologize. Guess I kinda got bogged down with other activities, everything from hot dog tastings to baking cornbreads to chile ‘n chocolate fiestas. Then before, after, and during all that, I had assorted workmen at my place, finishing a couple of [...]
Carolina’s Indiana Cornbread
Posted in modern recipe (!) on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’ve been a few requests for the cornbread recipe that I used this past week for the Culinary Historians of New York (CHNY) program, so here it is: ______________________________ Carolina’s Indiana Cornbread 2 cups cornmeal* 1 cup flour a little salt 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda** 2 eggs 1 cup of milk, soured with 1 [...]
more culinary doin’s
Posted in Culinary Historians of New York, modern recipe (!), tagged "Midwestern" food, cornbread, sugar pie on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another culinary event that I attended this past week was the monthly program of the Culinary Historians of New York (CHNY), of which I’m a member. The speaker was Bruce Kraig (yes, I heard him TWICE in one week!), and his topic was foodways of the Midwest. I’ll deal with his talk in a moment, [...]
hot dog!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been busy attending foodie events the past couple of days. First up was a presentation and tasting at lily’s restaurant in the Roger Smith Hotel over on Lexington: The subject was hot dogs, their history, the different regional preferences, and their place in our culture. The speaker was Bruce Kraig of Chicago. Here he’s [...]
none superior
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back to tomatoes…there are 14 receipts in Mrs. Lettice Bryan’s The Kentucky Housewife (1839). Again, we’re 30-some years after Rundell and Horry’s work. There’s also the southern angle. In any event, she offers every dish seen previously, including fried, stewed, baked, broiled, jelly, soup, and “keeping” them through the winter. You’ll also find dressing tomatoes [...]
hot ‘n spicy chocolate
Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday I buzzed on over to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to check out the annual Chile Pepper Fiesta. I arrived at the Osborne Garden just in time to hear a panel discussion on all things spicy and chocolatey, led by fellow CHNY-er, Alexandra Leaf, who’s also the Founder/President of Chocolate Tours of NYC. The panel [...]
tomatoes rule!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It may be Fall, time for gourds and pumpkins, but for some reason there’s still alot of interest in tomatoes. Check out this post on my fellow food blogger’s site and this NY Times article. Of course, I began musing on Big Red days ago! In any event, after finding the tomato receipt in Harriott [...]
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