Kitchen Mysteries

[emmelisa]

A lot of the old cookbooks in my collection are "community cookbooks" -- the ones put out by local organizations as fundraisers.  I think anybody who cooks enough probably ends up with a number of these, either because you contributed a recipe and feel obliged to buy a copy of the book, or because someone was traveling and bought one for you,

Comments

[idlewild_]

Hee. The classic Australian version of this is the Country Women's Association (CWA) cookbook. I have it on totally spurious authority that the ladies would omit ingredients out of spite. But I love the omission of time and temp (obviously for cookies, 350F until done ;) ) and flour quantities. Fabulously cryptic. Old/Scandinavian knitting patterns are like this. They assume you already know a lot of things and just describe in broad gestures what you might need for a pattern.

That rice and cheese recipe... ugh!!

I vote that you give the One Layer Dark Cake a whirl and report back... preferably with cake in hand... did I mention that I'm hungry?