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Cooking & Baking

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8. I collect Fanny Farmer cookbooks

Reply to spinbaby (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 10:41 PM

Jan 29

(never got into Joy of Cooking). It's interesting to see recipes and cooking techniques come and go - one of my faves, cream of chestnut soup, disappears after the 1920s. My favorite is the 1918 edition, with a special section from Herbert Hoover on how to save food for our boys Over There with meatless dishes and alternatives to wheat.

Oysters were seasonal treats way back when. One of my favorite dishes is Hangtown Fry, and oyster omelet that supposedly was invented when a goldminer in California wanted the most expensive dish available in what is now Placerville: eggs, oysters, and bacon all had to be brought to the mountains from San Francisco.

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Browsing my vintage cookbooks [View all] spinbaby Jan 29 OP

That sounds delicious Walleye Jan 29 #1

It does! rubbersole Jan 29 #2

Yes, we always had oysters in the winter and rolled them in cracker crumbs Walleye Jan 29 #3

Delicious, but not much to modern tastes spinbaby Jan 29 #4

I left New Orleans about 9 months ago. Tom Dyer Jan 29 #5

I love them, too chowmama Jan 29 #6

I'm a lover of cookbooks too AKwannabe Jan 29 #7

I collect Fanny Farmer cookbooks Retrograde Jan 29 #8