She then goes on to say “anyone who knows the answers to more than two or three of these queries is wiser than I.” Today the answers to her questions are fairly straight-forward, but then you look at the old recipes. Take this one from 1914 for both muffins and crumpets. To make...
I was sitting at the dinner table on a summer evening. Dinnertime ___21___ told me I should eat everything on my plate and then ask to be ___22___ from the table. As I took a(n)___23___ of meat, a tiny voice seemed to ___24___ into my ear: take that pork bone ...
about 45 minutes. If the garlic starts to over-brown, reduce the heat. Towards the end of cooking, sprinkle the sugar evenly over the garlic, and slowly add the balsamic vinegar (the mixture will bubble up). Reduce the liquid slightly, then remove garlic to a plate to cool to room temp...
Top this with a dinner plate and carefully turn the entire basket over on the plate. Viola’, your bread is now sitting on a parchment slide on a plate. Pick up the plate and carefully slide the dough and the paper beneath it, into your hot pan, cover and bake. Spicy Charred Corn G...
s a love that goes back to my own grandmother and memories of sitting on the steps of her root cellar, waiting anxiously to see what she might retrieve. It’s memories of my own mother baking homemade bread on glorious summer canning days, smearing warm slices of that bread with jelly ...
If too dry, add 1 tablespoon of water to dough to adjust. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes. The dough should look like this during the rest: Turn the mixer on again and mix for 3 minutes. Take the dough out and place on the counter. Remember that 1/4 cup of flour that we ...
I sprinkle some flour on a large plate then tip the dried, damp fruit onto that flour and add more flour if needed after tossing it around a bit. They should be a bit damp. Then I mix the fruit in as instructed. Since that didn’t work for you I would suggest that you add the ...
ingredients: bacon, egg, cheese, onion, and either pasta or potatoes. But when we had particularly sad kitchens containing nothing but a single hot plate, having these recipes in our back pocket saved us. Especially when we were on that farm in Iceland, 50 minutes away from the nearest ...
smooth jerk like that old magician's trick of pulling the cloth from under a tableful of dishes. Open the oven so the far end of the board rests on the far end of the asbestos at the back of the oven. Then with one quick jerk, pull the board toward you and the three loaves will...
And you invite 4 couples, so that I do a dinner for 10 at your home where no business is talking." This is not a plate licker seminar. And it's really about me celebrating them and their decisions to become financially aware, whatever that would mean in the relationship. And that was...