random stuffs mostly vintage and found
Have you ever had one of those days when you decide to Google a recipe before posting and the results come up with a slightly different name (in this case the majority of recipes are called Bienenstich) and is *just* different enough (Bienenstich aka German Bee Cake is apparently a yeast-based cake while this recipe […]
The 18th-Century Cookbook That Helped Save the Slovene Language – Gastro Obscura — Read on www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-slovene-language-cookbook
I feel like I am posting this recipe WAY too early in the season- it is no where near Zucchini season but here we are. This recipe comes from Sevgi Kurt Hadley and apparently was misspelled in the cookbook (or had a funky translation ).
Fat Thursday is a traditional Christian feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the days leading up to Ash Wednesday provide the last opportunity for feasting (including simply eating forbidden items) until Easter. Traditionally it is a day dedicated to eating, when people meet in their homes or […]
I was tempted to write a long story about how when my great-great-grandmother was a girl she smuggled this Creamed Cabbage Soup with Kolbasz (Kaposzta Leves Fustolt Kobassza) recipe out of Hungary by sewing a copy of this in the hem of her skirt. That didn’t happen. For one thing, my grandmothers were variations of […]