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chamisa in vintage_recipes

Macaroon Madness!

Jun 15, 2010 15:51

Especially for myroughdraft, who was lamenting the lack of year round availability of macaroons, here are some vintage macaroon recipes. Now you can have them whenever you like! I was thinking that surely there ought to be a recipe for macaroons in one of my cookbooks, and I found not one but a whole bunch of them, from the 1951 edition of The Joy of Cooking ( Read more... )

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laplor June 15 2010, 23:13:02 UTC

Madness! (Saves)

sovereignann June 16 2010, 00:35:11 UTC

I love the old Joy of Cooking books. Does this one show you how to prepare possum? How you need to keep it in a cage and feed it clean food before slaughtering it? My mom's does. I'll have to see if she'll scan that part for me. I think there might also be a recipe for bear...

chamisa June 16 2010, 03:02:27 UTC

Wow, seriously!? That would be super cool if your mom scanned those recipes in.

I looked and did not find possum in this book, though there was a very sad illustration of how to skin a squirrel.

But I do have two vintage cookbooks that have possum recipes in them (though they do not mention keeping them in cages and such). One is from 1960 (originally 1955), North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery, and the other is from 1977 (originally 1953), The South Carolina Cook Book. I guess possum is good eats in the south?

I'll scan them tomorrow if there's interest. The North Carolina book has a cute illustration of dogs baying at a treed possum. The South Carolina book has a nasty section on cooking brains. Braiiiiiiiins!!!! ::shudder::

outsdr June 16 2010, 01:07:07 UTC

7/8 cup of sugar is an oddly exact amount.

meezergal June 16 2010, 01:30:01 UTC

Yeah. I've always wondered how you measure it--take out x tablespoons, or what? (I know I could figure it out, but I'm lazy. Do you have a quick way?)

outsdr June 16 2010, 02:09:37 UTC

Yep- guessing!

chamisa June 16 2010, 02:54:52 UTC

According to my husband (who is very good at math and I am not), 1 cup is 8/8, so you remove 1/8th of a cup to get 7/8ths of a cup. 1/8 is half of a quarter cup.

glass_houses June 16 2010, 02:56:35 UTC

Awesome! But, to my horror, I see no coconut! No coconut macaroons! :( :( :( I've never had a non-coconut macaroon.

chamisa June 16 2010, 03:05:10 UTC

::points to icon:: ;-)

Maybe you could just toss some in the basic recipe and call it good? :-)

glass_houses June 16 2010, 03:07:21 UTC

Hehehe, I could :D