I’ve always turned to books for solace, comfort, advice and how to cook sauerbraten. Yes, sauerbraten. Smelled the house up so bad when it was done I threw it out. I just couldn’t eat it. I’ve collected so many cookbooks over the years I could start my own library. Each time we travelled whether in this country or overseas I always bought a cookbook that represented the area we were in. Some were in another language I couldn’t read but the pictures were great! I don’t remember actually cooking anything from them (except maybe the Irish one).
The oldest cookbook I have is dated 1881. “Just How – A Key To the Cook-Books” by Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney. Author of “Real Folks”, “We Girls”, “The Other Girls,” and “The Gayworthys”. Somehow I missed those books in the library. Part of her Preface reads: “There are in cookery, as in all things, three definite stages of doing; and, they are the stages of the children’s play-rhyme: “One to make ready ; Two to prepare ; Three to go slambang, And there you are!” I like the slambang part…I can relate to it.
She finishes her Preface with…”By the same progress, you have become, in like degree, a capable journeywoman at your trade” I wish you a very friendly good-by.”
I’m not sure about being a capable journeywoman…but I can slambang with the best of them. I wish you a friendly good-by.
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