Mock Cherry Pie
I’ve always been intrigued by “mock” recipes that show up in cookbooks, so this month, I’m going to look at several [...]
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Mar, 17
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Mar, 17
Mock Whipped Cream
I will continue to look at mock recipes that come to the rescue when we want to make something but don’t [...]
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Nov, 16
Restaurant Menus
Restaurant menus provide a glimpse at the kinds of foods served in another time and place. They are a condensed view [...]
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Nov, 16
Vernon Applesauce Fruit Cake – A New Tradition – Linda Peterat
Vernon Applesauce Fruit Cake might become a tradition for me. It joins a wide number of recipes named after cities and [...]
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Nov, 16
Canadian War Cake
Canadian Cake for the trenches - aka War Cake is a unique recipe that reflects rationing and resourcefulness. A few months [...]
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Sep, 16
Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts
Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts Chinese fairy tale feasts, a literary cookbook. Yee, Paul, Chan, Judy, & Wang, Shaoli (2014). Chinese fairy [...]
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Aug, 16
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Cake
Cake for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge? The news this week that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are scheduled [...]
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Aug, 16
Macs are Rolling
When I attended elementary school in Manitoba in the 1950s, our grade 4 or 5 reader was Wide Open Windows (Copp [...]
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Aug, 16
Queen Elizabeth Cake
Queen Elizabeth II was born April 21, 1926. She became Queen on February 6, 1952 and was crowned on June 2, [...]
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Aug, 16
Tea Time in the 1940s
Recently I went for afternoon tea at a heritage house that claimed to serve tea as it would have been in [...]