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New Day Café: Tidbits from Fannie Farmer [1]

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Date: 2023-06-23

Is anyone else an aficionado of old recipes? Even if one is not going to make them, the history of different dishes can be intriguing.

In this case, I was looking through a groundbreaking cookbook for dishes that are a little weird but not too weird, lol.

Fannie Farmer, born on March 23, 1857, overcame polio and the lack of a formal education. She wrote one of the most popular cookbooks in history, the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook. Her recipes were easy to follow with standard measurements, and her book covered a lot of ground. It had more than 1,200 recipes, including Yankee favorites and exotic foreign dishes. newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/...

The recipes that follow are all from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer. The linked volume (pdf) was published @1918; the first edition appeared in 1896.

x They were invented at the Parker House Hotel in Boston, during the 1870s. Fannie Farmer gives a recipe for them in her 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. pic.twitter.com/bq3OzgvC4H — WikiVictorian (@wikivictorian) April 12, 2023

Let’s start with something refreshing:

Pineapple Lemonade 1 pint water 1 quart ice-water 1 cup sugar 1 can grated pineapple Juice 3 lemons Make syrup by boiling water and sugar ten minutes ; add pineapple and lemon juice, cool, strain, and add ice-water.

Pancakes or griddle-cakes, by both names they’re delicious.

Here’s a pancake version I bet you’ve never heard of. I certainly hadn’t.

Bread Griddle-cakes 1 1/2 cups fine stale bread crumbs 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups scalded milk 1/2 cup flour 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder Add milk and butter to crumbs, and soak until crumbs are soft; add eggs well beaten, then flour, salt, and baking powder mixed and sifted. Cook same as other griddle-cakes.

x "Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

― Fannie Farmer, (died this day, January 15, 1915) pic.twitter.com/qdEeGvvGER — MacCocktail (Mastodon: @[email protected]) (@MacCocktail) January 15, 2021

This dish sounds pretty:

Eggs à la Goldenrod 3 " hard-boiled " eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon flour 5 slices toast 1 cup milk Parsley Make a thin white sauce with butter, flour, milk, and seasonings. Separate yolks from whites of eggs. Chop whites finely, and add them to the sauce. Cut four slices of toast in halves lengthwise. Arrange on platter, and pour over the sauce. Force the yolks through a potato ricer or strainer, sprinkling over the top. Garnish with parsley and remaining toast, cut in points.

Don’t be like this lady:

x 1900: Measure ingredients by the handful.

Before Fannie Farmer introduced precise and calculated measurements for her recipes, many cookbooks simply used "by the pinch" or "by the handful." Thankfully, Farmer uniformed the measurements we still use today. pic.twitter.com/RC0slu4xDI — Demforever (@rath_22) November 22, 2021

There’s even a chicken chili recipe! (Egad)

Chili Con Carni Clean, singe, and cut in pieces for serving, two young chickens. Season with salt and pepper, and sauté in butter. Remove seeds and veins from eight red peppers, cover with boiling water, and cook until soft ; mash, and rub through a sieve. Add one teaspoon salt, one onion finely chopped, two cloves of garlic finely chopped, the chicken, and boiling water to cover. Cook until chicken is tender. Remove to serving dish, and thicken sauce with three tablespoons each butter and flour cooked together ; there should be one and one-half cups sauce. Canned pimentoes may be used in place of red peppers.

x #KnowYourFoodWriters



Lena Richard (1893-1950) of New Orleans was a chef, author and restaurateur. She graduated from the Fannie Farmer Cooking School in 1918 and opened her own cooking school in Louisiana



In 1949 she became the first Black woman to host a cooking show pic.twitter.com/lZ5GuguLVv — Rachael Narins (@ChickswKnives) September 27, 2022

Not weird, just cute as hell:

Duchess Potatoes To two cups hot riced potatoes add two tablespoons butter, one-half teaspoon salt, and yolks of three eggs slightly beaten. Shape, using pastry bag and tube, in. form of baskets, pyramids, crowns, leaves, roses, etc. Brush over with beaten egg diluted with one teaspoon water, and brown in a hot oven.

Forget cute, I want some now.

x Garlic Parmesan Duchess Potatoeshttps://t.co/ezlOsWihQd pic.twitter.com/CoCzhYrUdN — Eric V Anderson (@EricAndersonV) April 17, 2023

Never thought of this one. Nope. But, I mean, fritters! I’d love to try it.

Coffee Fritters, Coffee Cream Sauce Cut stale bread in one-half inch slices, remove crusts, and cut slices in one-half inch strips. Mix three-fourths cup coffee infusion, two tablespoons sugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one egg slightly beaten, and one-fourth cup cream. Dip bread in mixture, crumbs, egg, and crumbs again. Fry in deep fat and drain. Serve with Coffee Cream Sauce. Beat yolks three eggs slightly, add four tablespoons sugar and one-eighth teaspoon salt, then add gradually one cup coffee infusion. Cook in double boiler until mixture thickens. Cool, and fold in one-third cup heavy cream beaten until stiff.

Max Miller even has an episode:

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So c’mon in the café and grab a cuppa...

x Higher Brazilian real boosted #Coffee as the real rose to a 2-1/2 week high. Prices also garnered support on concerns heavy rain in Brazil will slow the country's harvest. An El Nino could bring heavy rains to Brazil & drought to India, negatively impacting crop production. pic.twitter.com/oGyWVZhvU8 — Stuart A. Brown (@StuOnGold) June 6, 2023

..and a nice nosh...

x this or that food poll: pastries edition ~°♡ pic.twitter.com/Pfu5FnbBvt — orion?! is 3 inches tall (@antikcalprodick) June 12, 2023

..and join us!

New Day Café is an open thread. What do you want to talk about today?

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