Life is taking a great demand for my time this weekend. Hope to pull it all off, but now it looks like a big job. Some sad, some fun and joyous and some just a lot of work and I am not as young as I used to be! So we will see where this takes us.
My life is not crowded enough that a bit of magic can’t get through. I received a phone call wondering if I would be interested in some cook books. My first reaction was “How many?” To my delight and amazement an acquaintance, neighbor a block or two away ,a reader of The Earth and now my friend wanted to give me some of her mother’s cookbooks. I readily accepted and she delivered them to me the next day, creating a lovely visit with two large 20 year old cookbooks and a couple of recipe files, so neatly arranged that it made me ashamed of my drawer full.
The books are large and before everything started out with a prepared mix, although there are some that do use them. I did not have time to search through them but I am going to pass on a couple that I thought were interesting. You may not want to try them but in my judgment they are very unique. There were 30 some for French Dressing. Now I thought that French Dressing was French Dressing and not something that could be prepared that many different ways or it would not be French Dressing! When my world slows down I will research my amazing gift and share more with you. What an amazing compliment for someone to want to give you their mother’s recipe books and collected recipes! Thanks so much.
I eat a lot of pears, but I never heard of doing this to them, but all of the recipes in both books came from Home Economics teachers. That brings up another issue with me. What were educators thinking when they dropped the Home Economics program from the high school curriculum? How few of our girls will not need the art of homemaking and many of the issues of just dealing with everyday life that are taught in this department?
BAKED PEARS
6 pears
1 cup sugar
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
Grated rind and juice of 1 orange
Butter
Peel and core pears, leaving then whole and upright. Place them in a shallow round casserole dish. Combine sugar and fruit juices. Pour over the pears, dot with butter and bake at 350 degrees 1 hour. That seems like a long time to bake, but I did not write the recipe and it is new territory for me.
How about a very simple dessert that you can fix while you are cooking supper? I would have to taste it to be too excited, but it rated a place in my new “old” cookbook.
QUICK DESSERT
1 package instant vanilla pudding
½ cup coconut
1 small can fruit cocktail
Mix coconut and fruit cocktail with the pudding mix. Chill. Now what could be simpler and you have a new dessert to try on your family.
I had something else I was going to share with you but will save it for when my time is not scheduled so full. Now I have to decide if I should go to bed and get up really early or work until I drop and then sleep in.
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