The Original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book 1896 by Fannie Merritt Farmer

The Original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

by

Fannie Merritt Farmer

Since relocating to SW Ohio and getting married I have been cooking a lot more than I had the prior decade.   Having exhausted the couple of cook books I had unpacked and the couple of cook books Bruce had around here I was in the market for some new ideas.  I subscribe to several emailings of recipes but none were grabbing me and I have downloaded several ebooks to my kindle from the free list but none of those were really interesting me either.  Although I am sure I will I guess I have not graduated to e-recipes yet.  But then I have never been one to find good ones in magazines either so maybe not.  Then one day last week a contact on a social media web site had mentioned that she had found a steal from a vintage second hand store of the type of recipe boxes that people had in the 1970's where the cards came in the mail.  They looked like the image below.

She was having a ball looking through what she considered the old time type recipes.   That put in me in the notion to find my boxes of cook books although  I had not looked through any of them for quite some time.  I managed to unearth one plastic bin of cook books and have been finding lots of recipes to keep me busy for awhile.  Among the cook books was The Original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book 1896 by Fannie Merritt Farmer.   I was not able to find anything in it I wanted to make but very much enjoyed looking through the old time ways of doing things.  The book begins with a quote:   "But for life the universe were nothing; and all that has life requires nourishment."   It is full of interesting historical ways of cooking.  For example on page 18 it describes how fire is used and tells where one removes the ashes from the cook stove.  I had to google some of the terms used, for example "forced meat"  seems to be sausage stuffing type meat,  and overall it was just interesting to look through.  If you click on the book title above you will be directed to an online 1910 edition.  I could not find the 1896 edition available for free online.  If you click on the authors name above you will be directed to more information about her.  Please enjoy the video that follows in which one of the recipes is demonstrated.

Wednesday Night At The Movies

On Wednesday Night,  while my daughter was visiting,  we watched Saving Mr Banks.  It is a delightful movie.  It is about the problems Walt Disney had getting rights to the book in order to make the movie Mary Poppins.  The author of the original Mary Poppins book was Pamela Travers.   This is a movie I would highly recommend but have the Kleenex ready at the end.  Please click on the links above in the text to more information and enjoy the movie trailer that follows.

Tuesday Night At The Movies

While my daughter was visiting this week we watched a couple of movies.  On Tuesday night we watched August: Osage County.   It had a couple of funny lines in it but mostly was drama.  The movie is about a very dysfunctional family.  I would not recommend it unless one was using it to teach a class on unhealthy family dynamics or addiction issues.  The actors and actresses in the film did do an outstanding job.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point

by

Malcolm Gladwell

It is not very often that I read a book and just really don't like it.  The Wilmington Library book group does a non fiction selection every other month and non fiction is not my genre in book length unless it is a topic that is really of interest to me.  This book would have made a great magazine article but I really had to wade through its 304 pages.  I missed the meeting last week so don't know if other people liked it or not.  The book is about how some things become popular and some things flop.   One of the points of attending a book group is to expose oneself to things that they would not other wise read.  This selection achieved that goal for me.  It is written clearly and if a person enjoys non fiction about selling items or ideas then this would be a good read.   If this subject is your cup of tea you can click on the title and author's name above to learn more and view the video that follows.

Friday Night Dinner And A Movie - Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips

After a long day of sight seeing,  when I arrived home Bruce threw shish kabobs on the grill and we watched Captain Phillips.  We had both wanted to see the movie for a long time and so it was good to relax and watch.  If you have not seen this movie you need to.  It is very frightening till the Navy Seals arrive and then after that is just exciting.

A Visit To Yellow Springs Ohio 6/2014

Yellow Springs Ohio

After lunch we shopped a little in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  It is a small tourist town full of little shops and interesting places to eat.  It is just a fun place to wander around.  A favorite store there of mine is:

Julia Etta's Trunk

Creative clothing for body & spirit

100 Corry St
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Phone: 937-767-2823 

Next Saturday is their Street Fair but I will be working so can't attend.  A video of some of the shops follows:

A Visit To Clifton Mill 6/2014

Clifton Mill, Ohio

After we finished at Springfield we drove down to Clifton Mill for a late lunch.  The food was wonderful!  and the view was breathtaking!   The video that follows convinces me I want to go back for a supper at Christmastime.  Click on the title  above to follow the link to visit their website.