Cooking and Food Preparation
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Feb, 19
Wild Game Cookery
Wild Game Cookery A recent CTV news item suggests government incentives to use more food from the land, or “country food”.[i] [...]
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Jan, 19
Snacks
Snacks by Janis Thiessen Janis Thiessen will make you re-think snacks and the class snobbery that blames them for an array [...]
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Dec, 18
Four Ways to Roast a Turkey in BC
Four Ways to Roast a Turkey in BC Food researchers are increasingly using cookbooks sources for historical, cultural, and sociological data. [...]
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Jul, 18
Simple Pancake Recipe
Simple Pancake Recipe How quickly can you make pancakes? Pancakes Pancakes and flapjacks played an important role in early [...]
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Jun, 18
Retro cooking 1958
BC Women's Institutes Centennial Cook Book I've been trying retro cooking from 1958 recently. Silver Star Mountain Resort, 22 [...]
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Mar, 18
A Case for Retro Recipes
Many of the recipes that I enjoyed in my childhood and youth now fall under the category of "retro recipes". Recently [...]
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Jan, 18
Mother’s Favourite Recipes
Mother's Favourite Recipes Mother's Favourite Recipes 1958 In 1958-59, Mrs. Schick's grade six class at Bon Accord School collected [...]
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Jan, 18
Margaret Henderson and the Province Modern Kitchen
Margaret Henderson was one of several BC newspaper food writers who influenced the daily lives of thousands of women. During [...]
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Dec, 17
Butter – The First BC Newspaper Recipe
Butter was (probably) the first BC newspaper recipe. The British Colonist, February 7, 1860 While looking through some of [...]
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Nov, 17
Fruit Cake Failures
From fruit cake failures to 50th anniversary replica wedding cakes, the fruit cake is both loved and hated. My late husband [...]