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Includes 300 recipes from 13 of the earliest California cookbooks; 152 pages; $5.95. To purchase from Amazon, click on cover.
Featuring 250 recipes from 15 landmark vegetarian cookbooks; 152-pages; $5.95. To buy from Amazon, click on cover.
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Category Archives: Desserts
How an 1883 Pudding Recipe Turned Me on to Baked Oatmeal
Who knew? You can bake oatmeal! Okay, lots of people know that, as a Google search for “baked oatmeal” reveals. But it somehow escaped me all those years when my daughters were growing up and I was making oatmeal the … Continue reading
S.F. Celebrity Chef a Century Ago Swore by Prune Souffle
French born and trained Victor Hirtzler drew culinary tourists from around the world to the lavish Hotel St. Francis dining room in San Francisco during his more than two decades as head chef at the landmark restaurant beginning in 1904. His prune souffle is “a … Continue reading
Courtesy of the Theosophists of 1897, Poor Man’s Cake
The first recipe I’ve chosen to report on here is Poor Man’s Cake. I’m in Los Angeles for a couple of weeks, back on a visit to my old stomping grounds from my new home base in Philadelphia. I’m staying at my … Continue reading
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