Cauliflower Salad is a raw vegetable make-ahead salad suitable for a warm weeknight. The recipe comes originally from Recipes from “Round the World”, a 1939 cookbook published by the McNess company. The cookbook compiles recipes from varied countries, as the title implies, presented in their native languages alongside an English translation. Cauliflower Salad claims its……
Course: Sauces and Relishes
Salsa per Spaghetti (1937, adapted)
Salsa per Spaghetti is a thick and hearty spaghetti sauce made with tomatoes and onions. The original version of this recipe comes from Recipes from “Round the World”, a 1937 cookbook published by the McNess company. Recipes from “Round the World” contains over a hundred recipes from fifteen countries, presented in their original language side-by-side……
Tomato Pudding (adapted from The Black Family Reunion Cookbook, 1991)
Tomato Pudding is a simple casserole-style side dish meant to accompany a rich Southern meal. Or maybe it’s a dessert. The recipe’s original author, Cincinnati restaurateur Barbara Bond, isn’t quite sure. This recipe comes to me by way of The Black Family Reunion Cookbook, a recipe book compiled by the National Council of Negro Women…….
Makina No Tsukemono (adapted from Nippon Ryori Syu, 1972)
Makina No Tsukemono is a quick pickled cabbage-and-peppers recipe in a nominally Japanese style. I’ve adapted the recipe from Nippon Ryori Syu, a 1972 cookbook compiled and published by the Intermountain District Council of the Japanese American Citizen’s League (JACL). The JACL today bills itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American/Pacific Islander civil……
Orygun’s French Dressing (Oregon, 1974, adapted)
This simple salad dressing recipe comes from No Regrets, a cookbook compiled by the Junior League of Portland (Oregon) in 1974. The recipe itself doesn’t particularly spark joy in me – I find it hard to get excited about salad dressing in general – but the title makes me smile. No, it’s not a typo. ……
Salsa de Chícharo y Tomate (adapted from Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, 1958)
Salsa de Chícharo y Tomate is one of those recipes I went into having no idea what I was getting into. I found it in a 1958 cookbook – Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking – written by Elena Zelayeta. It’s one of a dozen different recipes in a chapter devoted to salsas, and, given the……
Caffeine-Free Espresso-Cardamom Rub (adapted from Grill Every Day, 2007)
Sometime in the late 2000s the coffee-rubbed steak was a minor trend in our local restaurants, not at the steak and chop houses so much as the upscale restaurants that feel obligated to have a steak on the menu. The most common pairing was coffee and chili, usually rubbed on an inexpensive butcher’s cut like……
Homemade Condensed Cream of Potato Soup (Wisconsin, 1962, adapted)
My vintage cookbooks are filled with recipes that require some form of condensed cream soups. Cream of mushroom seems to be the hands-down favorite, followed closely by cream of chicken, but there are still a healthy number of recipes that call for cream of celery or cream of potato. In terms of convenience and……
Gooseberry Ketchup (adapted from Mountain Memories)
Perhaps the recipes that best capture the spirit of Mountain Memories are the jams and jellies and pickles. Both the vegetable and fruit chapters are prefaced with memories of sauerkraut barrels in the family cellar, the necessity of storing food through rough winters, and pioneer methods for food preservation. They rely on local fruits and……