Look at this wonderful thing! A friend liberated it from his grandmother’s bookshelves for me and I appreciate it so very much. If I had unlimited shelf space and an extra few hours in the week, I’d probably collect and blog about etiquette and entertaining manuals as well, but there’s only so much time a person should devote to horrified chuckling at kaleidoscopic interiors, conformist gender roles and devilled ham.
Posted in 1950s, Better Homes and Gardens Guide to Entertaining
Tagged bacon, baking powder, castor sugar, cornmeal, egg, milk, plain flour, salt, vegetable oil
It’s National Vegetarian Week, so find a vegetarian and eat them! Mmmm – corn-fed!
Ahem. I was a vegetarian in my mid to late teens (around the time I started cooking) and eat meat a two or maybe three times a week currently (and no, I don‘t refer to myself as a ‘flexitarian‘, a ‘vegan until 6pm‘ or any such precious, guilt-addled nonsense). We have lots of vegetarian recipes on the blog (as you can see from the index), several of which have become things I eat regularly – particularly fasolakia, porotos granados and artichoke dip.
First off however, is a simple recipe which I remember my mother teaching me to cook as a young ‘un, though I haven’t made it for years. (Mamaliga is the Romanian term for this dish, incidentally.)
Posted in 1970s, Jane Grigson, Vegetable Book
