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Having grown up in a litter of seven, I think the perfect family size is two adults and a cat, but that's a problem when it comes to corn bread. It's hard to justify baking a whole pan when most of it will just go to waste. (My consort eats it grudgingly and I'm too fussy to eat it once it cools -- to me it's a vehicle for butter, and it never ...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Retro cookery From 60 Ways to Serve Ham (1930), Armour and Company I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. There will be various gelatins. ...

We're used to seeing a variety of interesting threads on our Epicurious forums. (Eat weeds, anyone?) One that caught my eye this week was a request for a soup from Afghanistan: ''Ideally I would love to hear from anyone from Afghanistan or expats. Traditional recipes with a modern or personal twist highly encouraged!'' posted ingarobinson. Sadly, ...

Every year, I look forward to the real fig season--figs have two seasons: the first, in early summer, is fleeting and generally unremarkable; the second one takes place late in the summer. And yes, folks, it's that time of year again. Late summer. My favorite moment in food time, when tomatoes and basil and zucchini and cucumbers and peppers and ...

Filed under: Beef, Recipes, America, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From The Heinz Book of Meat Cookery (1930), HJ Heinz Company I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. ...

Then, I got an email from a PR agency. Did I want to try some new regional recipes from a classic seafood seasoning company? I had just hosted a big Zatarain's tasting a few weeks ago, so I was somewhat curious about how the East Coast classic would compare. I made a point of specifying two tins of each new flavor. But in that funny way PR way, a ...

Filed under: Dairy, Beef, Recipes, Eggs, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From The Best of Taste: The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations (1957), The SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century ...

Filed under: Poultry, Recipes, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From Dainty Desserts for Dainty People (1915), Knox Gelatine I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. There ...

''Figs?'' she asked, ''What about putting a little pomegranate molasses in them?'' She took me into the kitchen, and poured two slow-moving drops of the stuff onto the end of a fork and put it in my mouth. It was a flavor new to me-- sweet, sour, full of depth. It was exactly what the figs needed to make them interesting without taking over the ...

Although you can easily use frozen blueberries for muffins, there's no reason to do that now, when berries are fresh, in season, and moderately inexpensive. Frozen berries are for the winter, when you have to pay little buckets of gold for a half pint of fresh ones. Plus, fresh berries exude bursts of sweetness that are unmatched by their frozen ...