random stuffs mostly vintage and found
I am going to be honest here- I have never heard of the Italian Love Cake until I found this recipe card in a random recipe box that I found at Amvets. Should we tell Candy Rinaldo that the card she so nicely wrote out ended up at the thrift? I did find some random […]
CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE Tort Z Czekoladowy 1 cup dates 1 cup sugar ¾ cup Crisco 2 eggs 2 cups cake flour 1 tbsp. cocoa 1 tsp. baking soda ½ tsp. salt Prep dates Cut up the dates and put them in a bowl. Add 1 ¼ of boiling water. Set aside. Beat 1 cup sugar […]
Jellied Pigs Feet 2 pigs feet (chopped in half) ½ onion 2 bay leaves ¾ tsp peppercorns 8 whole allspice salt pepper water to cover Boil till meat begins to fall from bones (about 4 hours) Take feet out of broth and remove bones. Put meat into loaf pan 5×8" and strain broth over […]
UJHAZI TYUKLEVES (Fowl Soup, Ujhazi Style) 1 Fowl (3 to 5 lb.) 6 black peppercorns 1 Tbsp. salt 1 small onion (chopped) 2 garlic cloves (crushed) 1 medium-sized tomato (peeled, chopped and seeded) 1 thin slice of fresh ginger root 1 knob celery (peeled and sliced) 3 small young carrots (peeled) 2 young parsnips […]
The word baklava is first attested in English in 1650, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.The name baklava is used in many languages with minor phonetic and spelling variations. Historian Paul D. Buell argues that the word “baklava” may come from the Mongolian root baγla- ‘to tie, wrap up, pile up’ composed with the […]