Thursday, February 22, 2024
Kitchen Snark Coloring Book
Monday, August 30, 2021
Cookbook of the Week: Mastering the Art of Outdoor Cooking on Your Gas Grill, circa 197?
The cookbook of the week is Mastering the Art of Outdoor Cooking on Your Gas Grill, just in time for a few more summer barbecues before the leaves start to change color.
While there's no copyright date in the book, we think it hales from sometime in the 1970s. Maxi skirts appeared in Paris in the 1960s, but didn't go mainstream until the next decade, and the cover model is sporting a particularly spectacular one:
Monday, August 23, 2021
Cookbook of the Week: Baker's Cut-Up Cake Party Book, circa 1973
The cookbook of the week is Baker's Cut-Up Cake Party Book, a little paperback cram-packed with ideas for celebrations and fancy, funny cakes around which to build parties.
Here's the front cover:
Tune in to the Cookbook Love page on Facebook for pictures, commentary, and recipes from this book all week long!
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Cookbook of the Week: Magical Amazing JELL-O Desserts (1977)
The Cookbook of the Week is Magical Amazing JELLO-O Desserts, circa 1977!
Here's the title page:
Here's a video preview:
Friday, April 2, 2021
Cookbook of the week for April 2, 2021: Quick and Easy Meals for Two (1952)
Let's start with salad. This one seems like a LOT of work.
Or if you prefer, we can go straight to dessert. For once you can eat with your fingers. Sort of.
Is this one man-friendly? Cabbagey chili with plops of mashed potatoes?
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
National Cheese Pizza Day! (Plus Hotdogs)
In honor of this day of all days, I offer you the following recipe for Polka Dot Pizzas.
OK, so it's technically NOT cheese pizza. But it is pizza, sort of. And it does have cheese on it, as you can see by the picture.
It comes from Betty Crocker's 1975 Cookbook for Boys & Girls. You can see these very chillins below, enjoying the fruits of their labors.
I like this early example of multiculturalism. And that the guy on the left wears an apron adorned with strange farm animals. And that the blond girl in the middle sports a half eaten banana.
Here is the recipe, so that you can make it at home!
Be sure to notice the use of "baking mix", aka, Bisquick.
In case this part is confusing, they've included a close up of Frankfurter positioning:
Now bake it, let it cool a tiny bit, and voila! Biscuit dough, cheddar, hot dog pizza, ready to eat!
Please to enjoy.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Kitchen Snark Coloring book
Do you love cookbooks? Need a distraction from the cares of the world? The Kitchen Snark Coloring Book is here to help! You'll find 50 pages filled with humor, wisdom, memories, and a touch of snark, all waiting for your creative flair. Color the stress away with this timeless book of vintage fun.
Amazon LINK - https://amzn.to/37JNptD
to create something fun connected to one of my other loves: vintage cookbooks!
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Molasses Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
The weather's turned crisp and the leaves are growing crunchy, and while I'm no fan of the pumpkin spice craze, when I discovered frozen pumpkin in the freezer, I knew it was time for a batch of cookies.
I found a recipe online, and then tweaked it by substituting molasses for some of the sugar, replacing a quarter of the flour with whole wheat, and pumping up the spice level.
My beloved likes her cookies in the style of crisp English biscuits, but once in a while I indulge my predilection for the soft, cakey variety, and that's what you'll get with this recipe. The molasses provides an earthy fullness, the whole wheat offers a bit of texture, the chocolate introduces a melting quality, and you're left with a slight afternote of heat from the cayenne. A thoroughly satisfying, thoroughly fall treat.
Let me know if you like them!
INGREDIENTS
1 cup pumpkin puree
½ cup molasses
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup oil (canola or vegetable)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
¼ teaspoon all spice
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ cup whole wheat flour
1½ cups all purpose flour
½ to 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
Combine all ingredients except the flour and chocolate chips. When well mixed, add both types of flour and continue blending. When the flour has been incorporated, stir in the chocolate chips.
Plop by tablespoon or a smallish cookie scoop onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees until tester comes out clean; around 10 to 12 minutes, depending on cookie size.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Share Your Kitchen Memories
During this time of pandemic many of us are drawn to the comfort of the kitchen, with all it's scents and memories. As worry and fear threaten to consume us, it's more important than ever to remember happy times with loved ones, gathered around stoves and tables, sharing food, laughter, and love.
Cookbook Love has decided to celebrate the importance of kitchens and family by creating a book full of your memories. Send us a recipe with a picture and a short explanation of how the food fits into your story. We'll collect them and turn them into a book, dedicated to all of you, and to those you love.
We hope the process of sifting through your memories and recipes will be comforting as we all wait out the end of this season of isolation.
Click here to make a submission.
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
On Gingerbread and One Humped Camels
According to the Food Timeline, gingerbread has been around for centuries, but has shifted and changed with the times, as most things do.
For example, in the 1930s it was credited with saving marriages.
Why does he have holes in his hands?
Gingerbread houses appeared on the scene after Hansel and Gretel were popularized. What child wouldn't love a book with a cover like this:
(Night terrors anyone?)
Here's a version that I might really try: