Food Friday: Party Bean Glop from The Liggett Alumnae

The Liggett Alumnae Cook Book (1950) produced by the Liggett Associate Alumnae has some great 1950s recipes and advertising.Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree  and automaker Henry Ford II wrote a foreword to the cookbook that proclaims: "Not a man alive has walked through his kitchen without casually noticing some simple change that would vastly...

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Food Friday: Scripture Cake

In some cases a recipe isn't a recipe for food. Sometimes "recipes" were meant to convey ideas for happier living or even to remind the reader what is most  important. They typically have names like "How to Cook a Husband" or in this example "Recipe for Housekeeping" and "Scripture Cake."Community cookbooks have long featured non-food recipes...

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Food Friday: Meat Loaf Salad

Yes, you read the title of this blog post correctly. I am sharing a recipe for Meat Loaf Salad.This salad idea comes from the circa 1925 Chi Omega Cook Book edited by The North Shore Alumnae of Chi Omega for Xi Chapter House Fund. Northwestern University. Evanston, Ill.The Preface states:"In this day of the mounting cost of living, the problem is to...

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Damned Torpedos, Huauzontle Ahead

Li-hing-rubbed torpedo with weird huauzontle and diced peppersTorpedo with poached peaches on bulgur farrotto flavored with saffron and sageHerb crusted torpedo with caramelized onion and fennel, on apple-onion risottoOne of my favorite ways to prepare sweet Italian sausage is as an oblong patty, locally known as a torpedo. Paulina Market...

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Food Friday:Taboulleh

Dining by Degrees: A Collection of Recipes by the California Polytechnic Women's Club (1984) provides readers with history, vintage photos, and of course recipes.The Foreward states:"With pride in Cal Poly, its past, present and future, the members of the Cal Poly Women's Club have endeavored to compile some of our favorite recipes and those of other...

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Wordless Wednesday: Plowing, Seeding & Harrowing

Postcard mailed 1909. Plowing, Seeing & Harrowing 44 ft. Wide. Califor...

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Food Friday: Mock Terrapin

One of the types of recipes you see in older community cookbooks is the mock recipes. Now there are two types of mock recipes. There is the mock recipe that substitutes one ingredient for another and then there is a mock recipe that is a light-hearted look at such things as "furnishing a church" or "how to cook a husband."For today we will be looking...

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Wordless Wednesday

Mission Indian Grill, Hotel Alexander, Los Angeles, California. 19...

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