Cooking For One: Listening to Your Cravings and Making Choices
Cooking for One gives you more choices than you possibly imagined. Know when to give into those cravings and what choices to make.
Read MoreBaking Temperatures for Pies and Pastries
Here you’ll find temperatures in Fahrenheit and their Celsius conversions as well as cook times for 11 types of pies/shells:
- Mirangue pies
- Apple or any double-crust pie with raw filling
- Custard, Pumpkin, or open pies
- Open cross-cut and “fruit deep” pies
- Double crust pie with pre-cooked filling
- Open pies with soufflé filling
- Pastry straws
- Pie shells
- Puff pastry
- Tart shells
- Turnovers.
Vintage Pies and Pastry Recipes
In this post, you’ll find a lovely variety of adapted vintage recipes, rules, and “how to”s for making pie crusts and pastries to make from scratch. Included in this article are:
General Rules for Making Pastry,
Plain Pastry,
Double Crust Pies,
One Crust Pies,
Pastry Shells, and
Fruit Deep Pies.
Puddings: Basic Vintage Recipes for Baked and Steamed Puddings From Scratch
Puddings today are a bit different from the puddings of days of old. These vintage puddings are bready and warm and scrumptious, perfect for the winter season.
Pudding Recipes in this article include:
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Cottage Pudding, Chocolate Pudding, Fruit Pudding, Ginger Pudding, Suet Pudding, Plum Pudding, Steamed Dumplings
Vintage Valentine Luncheon, Bridge or Tea, and Dinner Menu Ideas
Valentines day is a time to celebrate with your love, of course, but getting together with friends is just as fun. In vintage times, Valentine’s Day lunches and dinners were popular, as was Valentines Bridge or Tea get together. This post provides you with 4 Vintage Valentine Lunch menus, 2 Vintage Valentine Bridge or Tea menus, and 1 Vintage Valentine Dinner Menu.
Read MoreBouillon Served Hot or Cold, Use As a Base or for Detox
Bouillon is a terrific base to so many soups and jellies, and can be enjoyed year round as it can be served hot or cold). Additions can include fish, seafood, vegetables, even fruit. Here you’ll find a simple, vintage, beef bouillon recipe and one for tomato bouillon.
Read MoreCoffee enjoyed the Vintage Way
In this post, find out the vintage way to make and serve coffee, percolated coffee, drip coffee, boiled coffee, and iced coffee.
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