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Best "basic" cookbook to give my daughter?
Chowhounders have written favorably of Jean Anderson’s NEW DOUBLEDAY COOKBOOK. And what about the GOOD HOUSEKEEPING COOKBOOK or the new FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK? To judge from the testimonials on Amazon, these seem to appeal...
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Easter Candy
Grew up loving Fanny Farmer stores' large dark chocolate covered Easter eggs filled with something like a white buttercream outer layer & a bright yellow/orange center. Loved the tri-color of each slice. There also was a yummy...
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FeldmanFest: Gourmet Ghetto Friday
to walk we may walk or carpool to Berkeley Bowl to gawk at the produce and/or head down to Acme/Kermit Lynch/Cafe Fanny. RSVP so we’ll know to expect you: rlafler@ucsbalum.net It anyone would like to meet earlier at the Old...
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salt pork
of the oven (or a banked fire!) I think I’d do the browning/frying as suggested above. The older Fanny Farmer book we have has a recipe for fried salt pork with cream gravy, which I have tried and it’s insanely good,...
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Claudia Roden's - The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
it and stories from where it may have come or been derived from (some taken with a grain of salt). Once I return this book, I will get at least a few copies—one for myself, others as gifts. Minimally as a companion to Julia...
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Cooking as a learning process
easier way of dealing with them and I will try it again. Second, I made madeleines yesterday am – I use the Marion Cunningham recipe form the Fannie Farmer Baking Book (2 eggs, 1/2 c sugar, zest 1 lemon – I use 2...
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Good basic baking cookbook for a teen?
Fannie Farmer, Joy of Cooking, even Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cookery. 13 year olds have a lot more interest, passion, and knowledge than most people think. There’s no need to dumb it down.
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Bistro Red Bank Moving to Little Silver?
you said it, papa.. i didn’t want to say the words for fear it would come true... i remember those days, empty mcdonalds, boarded up storefronts, the struggling fannie farmer candy store, the korean market, rex diner and...
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Novice Cook needs your input
1. Yes; alternatively, the Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham, or Mark Bittman’s How To Cook Everything. But Joy, particularly the older editions, is a touchstone in a way the other two are not. 2. Yes. 3. Later,...
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Tried & True German Chocolate Cake
I’ve done very well with the recipe in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, by Marion Cunningham.
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Favorite Pie Recipes that use a graham cracker crust.
my favorite w/ cookie crust is ice cream pie. specifically, coffee ice cream layered with hot fudge sauce (homemade hot fudge from the fannie farmer cookbook is recommended, but good store-bought will do). lemon sorbet pie w/...
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Shad
Plank it! This is a recipe from the 1918 Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School cookbook. I believe a hot oven means preheated to 450 degrees F. Planked Shad or Whitefish Clean and split a three-pound shad. Put skin side down on a...
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Key Lime Ice Cream?
yes! I’ve made this recipe from Fanny Farmer and used key lime juice (bottled) instead of lemon juice. It makes an amazingly smooth and creamy ice cream- I think there must be some unique property to key lime juice that...
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Chocolate cake-what to fill/frost with
I often use the Fannie Farmer recipe for Portsmouth frosting — it goes great with chocolate cake and it’s really easy. It also holds relatively well: 1/4 Cup Butter — melted 1/4 Cup Cream 1 Teaspoon Vanilla or rum 3...
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Indian Pudding Dish - Hardware
I am looking at a recipe from the 1918 Boston Cooking Shool Cookbook AKA Fannie Farmer and it says to put the pudding mixture into a buttered pudding dish and I’m wondering if anyone knows what one is and if a Souffle dish...
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