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Just for fun, and because best cookbooks can acquaint us a lot about how our ancestors ate, formed and lived, we're hosting a fantasy banquet affair with recipes fatigued from cookbooks spanning about a century. For guidance, let's about-face to "Mrs. Seely's Cook Book" of 1902.
["552.9"]"The two things best capital to a acknowledged banquet in these canicule are acceptable aggregation and acceptable service. If to these you can add aesthetic affable and admirable table ornaments, so abundant the better, but the best aliment loses bisected its flavor if we are apathetic while bistro it, and the best allocution is apt to banderole if there are continued pauses amid the courses."
For starters, we'll accept a "sallet" -- bloom -- from Margaret Huntington Hooker's 1896 book, "Early American Cookery," reprinted in 1981 by Americana Review. Comprising dozens of Colonial recipes Miss Hooker gathered, the book includes instructions for, amid added things, assay a calf's head, baking hops and frying angel pies: "Make a candied Crust, cycle and cut out with a Saucer. Fill with Angel Sauce, bifold over the Crusts and compression the Edges. Fry in smoker Fat. To be eaten hot for Supper."
Having a bloom again usually meant growing or foraging your own greens, so the compound begins, "Let the Herbs be fresh-gathered ..." The "sauce" is abundant like our dressing, fabricated from olive oil, above egg yolks, cream, butter, mustard, salt, alkali and sugar.
["1069.91"]For the soup advance -- Chrism of Cauliflower -- we'll dip into "The Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Acreage Cookbook" from 1963, allotment account and brimming abounding of recipes, a bare few application Pepperidge Acreage products, and adorable illustrations by children's book illustrator Erik Blegvad. Mrs. Rudkin is a abreast and affable accompaniment as she guides us through her growing-up years in New York City; how she began her business in 1937 affairs her homemade, stone-ground accomplished aureate aliment to the bounded grocer; and activity on her husband's affiliated acreage in Ireland, which they purchased in 1953. The benefit is that Mrs. Rudkin devotes an absolute area to "Cooking from Antique Cookbooks," alpha with the aboriginal printed cookbook, "De Honesta Voluptate et Valitudine" ("On Right Pleasure and Acceptable Health"), appear in Venice in 1475.
"What fascinates me is that so abounding of the aforementioned foods we use today were actuality acclimated again in about the aforementioned way," she writes.
For our capital course, I'm tempted to chase Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt's compound for buzz pig, from their "Wild Raspberries" cookbook accounting and abundantly illustrated in 1959 and appear in 1997: "Contact Trader Vic's and adjustment a 40 batter bairn pig to serve 15. Accept Hanley booty the Carey Cadillac to the ancillary access and accept the pig at absolutely 6:45. Rush home anon and abode on the accessible discharge for 50 minutes. Remove and adornment with beginning crabapples."
["959.33"]But alike my fantasy kitchen lacks an accessible spit, so let's accomplish Braised Craven Blimp with Noodles from "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook" of 1954, which vividly recounts the years she spent with Gertrude Stein in France. The noodles (only bootleg will do) are cut in attenuated strips and alloyed with grated parmesan and Swiss, abundant chrism and baby augment caps. The bird is stuffed, trussed and browned in butter, broiled for an hour in a cup of craven borsch again covered with Booze Mornay -- bechamel with cheese, in this case parmesan -- and placed in a hot oven to glaze.
Our vegetable ancillary is beginning okra, done the way "The Yearling" columnist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings accomplished me to do it in "Cross Creek Cookery" -- above for absolutely seven account and served with Hollandaise sauce. In this anecdote-laced 1942 cookbook, she abstracts the way she and her assassin advice adapted in the 1930s at her Cracker-style farmhouse in Cross Creek, Fla. It's Southern backcountry eating, what with the cooter soup, grits and all.
Dessert, from Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book of 1950, is "Inexpensive Sponge Cake," with a affluent aftertaste and close arrangement that confute its name. We'll serve it with beginning raspberries and aerated cream, but afore we constrict into it, we'll accession our coffee cups to the absolute Betty Crocker, Marjorie Child Husted, who for 20 years led the General Mills Home Account Department and the cookbook's production.
["337.56"]Still apprehensive what a cooter is? Think soft-shell turtle. Mrs. Rawlings advises, "Scald the anxiety and rub off the skin."
Patricia Lowry can be accomplished at plowry@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1590.
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