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How to keep a husband!!
Wow, I will file this away for future (should I need it!! :laugh: ) Man, this stuff is funny!! :laugh: Nice to know all it takes is calf's head soup!! :huh:
To Keep a Husband, Try Pudding
The first cookbook written in California was the "Peerless Receipt Book," a volume aimed at promoting use of the Peerless brand of baking powder. But historians aren’t certain that it was actually printed in California.
How to Keep a Husband or Culinary Tactics
(San Francisco, 1872)
So credit for being the first cookbooks written and published in the state usually goes to three volumes that appeared in 1872, says Dan Strehl, curator of the culinary collection at the Los Angeles Public Library, which has rare copies of all three.
Each was compiled by a charitable group, two of them in San Francisco, one in Sacramento. The book that was probably first to hit the streets carried the quaint title "How to Keep a Husband or Culinary Tactics."
Dedicated to "the fair ones of the Pacific Coast," it was published by an Anglican church group in San Francisco. It draws more culinary inspiration from England than from California.
Yet amidst the myriad of recipes for roasted meat and other Old Country favorites sure to keep a husband from straying, such as calf’s head soup and mushroom catsup, are a few recipes that make use of local produce.
There are recipes for pickled plums, pickled grapes and a Spanish flummery (custard) with white wine, for example, as well as recipes for lemon and orange pudding. But these recipes don't appear to acknowledge that citrus fruit is available practically year-round in California. The pudding recipes call for preserves. Here is the recipe for orange pudding.
Boiled Orange Pudding
Pour a pint of milk on a half a pound of bread crumbs. Let it boil up. Stir in two ounces of butter, one of suet, keeping the pan over the fire until all is mixed. Let it stand still till cold then add two eggs, two ounces of sugar, the same of orange marmalade, one spoonful of orange flower water. Choose a basin that will exactly hold it. Tie over a flannel cloth loosely, closely. Boil it one and a quarter hours. Sauce of melted butter, sugar, a little lemon and brandy.
To Keep a Husband, Try Pudding
The first cookbook written in California was the "Peerless Receipt Book," a volume aimed at promoting use of the Peerless brand of baking powder. But historians aren’t certain that it was actually printed in California.
How to Keep a Husband or Culinary Tactics
(San Francisco, 1872)
So credit for being the first cookbooks written and published in the state usually goes to three volumes that appeared in 1872, says Dan Strehl, curator of the culinary collection at the Los Angeles Public Library, which has rare copies of all three.
Each was compiled by a charitable group, two of them in San Francisco, one in Sacramento. The book that was probably first to hit the streets carried the quaint title "How to Keep a Husband or Culinary Tactics."
Dedicated to "the fair ones of the Pacific Coast," it was published by an Anglican church group in San Francisco. It draws more culinary inspiration from England than from California.
Yet amidst the myriad of recipes for roasted meat and other Old Country favorites sure to keep a husband from straying, such as calf’s head soup and mushroom catsup, are a few recipes that make use of local produce.
There are recipes for pickled plums, pickled grapes and a Spanish flummery (custard) with white wine, for example, as well as recipes for lemon and orange pudding. But these recipes don't appear to acknowledge that citrus fruit is available practically year-round in California. The pudding recipes call for preserves. Here is the recipe for orange pudding.
Boiled Orange Pudding
Pour a pint of milk on a half a pound of bread crumbs. Let it boil up. Stir in two ounces of butter, one of suet, keeping the pan over the fire until all is mixed. Let it stand still till cold then add two eggs, two ounces of sugar, the same of orange marmalade, one spoonful of orange flower water. Choose a basin that will exactly hold it. Tie over a flannel cloth loosely, closely. Boil it one and a quarter hours. Sauce of melted butter, sugar, a little lemon and brandy.
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Wow, I will file this away for future (should I need it!! :laugh: ) Man, this stuff is funny!! :laugh: Nice to know all it takes is calf's head soup!! :huh:
To Keep a Husband, Try Pudding
The first cookbook written in California was the "Peerless Receipt Book," a volume aimed at promoting use of the Peerless brand of baking powder. But historians aren’t certain that it was actually printed in California.
How to Keep a Husband or Culinary Tactics
(San Francisco, 1872)
So credit for being the first cookbooks written and published in the state usually goes to three volumes that appeared in 1872, says Dan Strehl, curator of the culinary collection at the Los Angeles Public Library, which has rare copies of all three.
Each was compiled by a charitable group, two of them in San Francisco, one in Sacramento. The book that was probably first to hit the streets carried the quaint title "How to Keep a Husband or Culinary Tactics."
Dedicated to "the fair ones of the Pacific Coast," it was published by an Anglican church group in San Francisco. It draws more culinary inspiration from England than from California.
Yet amidst the myriad of recipes for roasted meat and other Old Country favorites sure to keep a husband from straying, such as calf’s head soup and mushroom catsup, are a few recipes that make use of local produce.
There are recipes for pickled plums, pickled grapes and a Spanish flummery (custard) with white wine, for example, as well as recipes for lemon and orange pudding. But these recipes don't appear to acknowledge that citrus fruit is available practically year-round in California. The pudding recipes call for preserves. Here is the recipe for orange pudding.
Boiled Orange Pudding
Pour a pint of milk on a half a pound of bread crumbs. Let it boil up. Stir in two ounces of butter, one of suet, keeping the pan over the fire until all is mixed. Let it stand still till cold then add two eggs, two ounces of sugar, the same of orange marmalade, one spoonful of orange flower water. Choose a basin that will exactly hold it. Tie over a flannel cloth loosely, closely. Boil it one and a quarter hours. Sauce of melted butter, sugar, a little lemon and brandy.0 -
I am sure I am not going to like calf's head soup! That just sounds wrong! Yuck!0
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I thought this would get more responses!
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Now Tam, if it said "How to Lose a husband" you would have gotten more responses! haha :laugh:0
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Oh, that's easy...........actually MAKE the calf's brain soup and he will be gone forever!!!:laugh:Now Tam, if it said "How to Lose a husband" you would have gotten more responses! haha :laugh:0 -
So the fact I didn't make the ex calfs head soup is reason I didnt keep him.... darn that bad luck :laugh:0
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"How to keep a husband............doubled over the toilet!" :laugh:0
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Oh, that's easy...........actually MAKE the calf's brain soup and he will be gone forever!!!:laugh:Now Tam, if it said "How to Lose a husband" you would have gotten more responses! haha :laugh:
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Mushroom ketchup,,,,pretty sure that would lose me a husband.0 -
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Mushroom ketchup,,,,pretty sure that would lose me a husband.0 -
Get out of my thread. You aren't welcome here! :explode:Ward likes pudding.
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Mine likes mushrooms and eats ketchup with a lot of stuff. He would probably like that too.:laugh:
Mushroom ketchup,,,,pretty sure that would lose me a husband.0 -
I just wonder what exactly mushroom ketchup is!!!! :noway: :huh:
Mine likes mushrooms and eats ketchup with a lot of stuff. He would probably like that too.:laugh:
Mushroom ketchup,,,,pretty sure that would lose me a husband.0 -
I just wonder what exactly mushroom ketchup is!!!! :noway: :huh:
Mine likes mushrooms and eats ketchup with a lot of stuff. He would probably like that too.:laugh:
Mushroom ketchup,,,,pretty sure that would lose me a husband.
Historically, ketchup has been a condiment based on just about anything. The origin of the word is said to date to 17th-century China, where a spicy pickled fish sauce was called ke-tsiap. The sauce found its way to England, where it evolved in many directions, with the addition of anything from mangoes to walnuts to mushrooms. It wasn’t until after ketchup made the voyage to New England, that it featured a tomato foundation, and became the popular sauce for which the French now tend to mock us.
Mushroom ketchup is more familiar in Britain than here, but don’t be daunted. You can find it available online (barely), and we have turned up several recipes, including one from The New Joy of Cooking, which describes it as an "English condiment for robust meats and game [that] is a thin, pungent, deeply flavored sauce."
The internet knows everything. :laugh:0 -
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Yes, thanks Shannon! Why didn't I think of that???:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Very interesting bit of culinary history there!! :drinker:0 -
Yes, thanks Shannon! Why didn't I think of that???:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Very interesting bit of culinary history there!! :drinker:
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I'm pretty sure that would keep me thinner! Yuck!0
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I personally like ANYTHING with Ketchup on it... Ahem...0
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Oh, I do too girl!! :drinker:I personally like ANYTHING with Ketchup on it... Ahem...0 -
And sour cream. I think if I drink a diet soda and eat sour cream, the calories cancel out...0
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mmmm, sour cream!!!And sour cream. I think if I drink a diet soda and eat sour cream, the calories cancel out...0 -
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Make the calfs head soup naked and your husband will love it.
Its very simple ladies, keep are bellies full and our testicles empty.0 -
Gee, and a couple of weeks ago, we figured out lysol was the way to keep your husband... lol
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That Lysol one is scarey! That must have killed off all the good bacteria.
I like the cookbook one. When I first met my DH he was mostly eating fast food. We still joke that he will stay as long as I keep cooking!0 -
I guess he is on his way out then, cuz this ol gal aint makin no calves head soup!:ohwell:0
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