MexicoKaren
Joyfully Retired
Does anyone remember this? I was just going through some boxes in the bodega and found it. Written by a woman named Peg Bracken, this book was originally published in 1960, re-issued in 1966, 1976 and 1986. It is full of funny stories and some pretty good recipes. It starts out like this (remember the time in which it was written):
"Some women, it is said, like to cook.
This book is not written for them.
This book is for those of us who hate to cook, who have learned through hard experience, that some activities become no less painful through repetition: childbearing, paying taxes, cooking. This book is for those of us who want to fold our big dishwater hands around around a dry martini instead of a wet flounder, come the end of a long day."
HOWEVER, there are some pretty darned good recipes in there, and they are fun to read. Like this one, called
COMPANY CARROTS
(Through the ages, people have gone to enormous trouble to camouflage carrots. Once I saw a recipe that called for carrots, strained honey. marjoram, grated cheese and chestnuts, which is like sewing diamond buttons on denim jeans.)
Cut a reasonable number of carrots into strips - so you have two cupfuls, say. Cook them until they're tender and drain them. Then, mix these things together in a heavy pan:
3 TBS butter
2 TBS sugar
1/2 tsp paprika
juice of half a lemon
Add the carrots and saute 10 minutes, stirring so that all the strips get well acquainted with the sauce.
Mods, am I violating any copyright laws by sharing these recipes? If people like them, I'll share more...
"Some women, it is said, like to cook.
This book is not written for them.
This book is for those of us who hate to cook, who have learned through hard experience, that some activities become no less painful through repetition: childbearing, paying taxes, cooking. This book is for those of us who want to fold our big dishwater hands around around a dry martini instead of a wet flounder, come the end of a long day."
HOWEVER, there are some pretty darned good recipes in there, and they are fun to read. Like this one, called
COMPANY CARROTS
(Through the ages, people have gone to enormous trouble to camouflage carrots. Once I saw a recipe that called for carrots, strained honey. marjoram, grated cheese and chestnuts, which is like sewing diamond buttons on denim jeans.)
Cut a reasonable number of carrots into strips - so you have two cupfuls, say. Cook them until they're tender and drain them. Then, mix these things together in a heavy pan:
3 TBS butter
2 TBS sugar
1/2 tsp paprika
juice of half a lemon
Add the carrots and saute 10 minutes, stirring so that all the strips get well acquainted with the sauce.
Mods, am I violating any copyright laws by sharing these recipes? If people like them, I'll share more...
That was a whole 'nother era!!!!!!!!!!!! 
