I'm writing a paper for grad school on the impact that changing farming methods post-WWII had on small-scale farmers in a specific community in the Midwest, with a section on how changing food production methods changed rural diets and culinary traditions.
The author may not be referring to a specific pickle recipe, but in the article she writes about how she wants to collect all the favorite recipes of her community, and she specifically mention's Mary's dill pickles, Susan's sweet pickles, and Helen's secret sister pickles, with the secret sister being her personal favorite. So I think it is a real recipe, but I suppose it could have been Helen's personal recipe that she made up and thus isn't widely known.
Pasta carbonara with bacon, caramelized onions, and arugula.
Come on a-my house (Rosemary Clooney)
Party on the Mountain (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Not here, unfortunatley... it *might* kill us.
I really have a thing for sausage, any kind, so being in Berlin and eating a real German bratwurst with spicy mustard is just about the best thing that ever happened to me in terms of pork products. The brat was about a foot long and 1/4 inch around and was served in a crusty roll about the size of a hamburger bun. So hard to eat, but oh so good.
Of course, that was the same trip that I walked into a charcuterie in Belgium and was so depressed that I couldn't buy any sausages because I had no way to keep them fresh or cook them. So many beautiful pieces of meat, too!
Umm... I'm pretty sure that's a zucchini.
I have a Canon A630, which I use for food photography (and on vacations, etc.). It does really well. I usually use the "indoor" setting and no flash, and my pictures almost always turn out well. I also have a little tabletop tripod that I got free with the camera. I don't know what brand it is or anything, but it works well. The only thing I have against the A630 is that if you don't know a lot about cameras and you decide to use the Automatic setting, you will get bad pictures. Or at least the automatic never worked for me.
I was reading some old newspaper articles from 1946 and found a reference to homemade "secret sister pickles," which the author of the article claims are excellent. I've looked online and through several vintage cookbook collections, and I can't find any reference to these pickles. Has anyone heard of them? Do you have a recipe?
I was recently introduced to ham loaf in Ohio, and I would like to know if anyone knows if the meat can be purchased anywhere else in the Midwest, Indiana in particular?
Ham loaf is like meat loaf, except it is a mix of finely ground ham and pork tenderloin. It can be glazed with a mustard or brown sugar/cola glaze. The meat is sold already ground and mixed, so all you have to do is glaze it and bake it. There is no filler in the loaf, unlike beef meatloaf.
Is this a regional food, and I'm just out of luck, or does anyone know where else to buy it?
What are the best kind of apples to use in making apple butter? I haven't made it before, and my mom just uses whatever she has around, so her apple butter is kind of hit-or-miss.
I need to make Devonshire (Clotted) Cream for a tea party next month. I have had it before, but I have no idea how to make it. Some recipes I have seen call for cream cheese, which I don't think is very authentic. All I have to work with is Wal-Mart cream, but I want to make the Devonshire Cream as authentic as possible. Any hints or good recipes?
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I'm reading old newspaper articles as part of a grad school research project on changes in farm technology post-WWII and the impact these changes had on rural life in a specific community in the Midwest. One of the sections of the paper is about changing diets and food traditions among farmers as they produced less and bought more of their own food.
I think the secret sister pickles recipe is an actually recipe, because in the article the author writes about how she'd like to create a cookbook with all the best recipes of the women in her community. This woman particularly loved pickles, and she mentions that she wants to include Helen's secret sister pickle recipe.