Orange-Spiced Pot Roast (Oklahoma, 1970s adapted)

Orange-Spiced Pot Roast is an international approach to the traditional Yankee pot roast.  The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a 1970s cookbook from my parents’ Oklahoma congregation.  It’s a surprisingly adventuresome dish for this cookbook, where most of the main dish recipes are practical weeknight meals.   Like most 1970s……

Spiced Cranberry Shrub

Spiced Cranberry Shrub is a tart cranberry syrup with the warming spices of a winter punch.  For those unfamiliar, a shrub is a lightly fermented fruit syrup main from roughly equal amounts of fruits and vegetables, vinegar, and sugar.  They may be mixed with soda for a complex and mostly non-alcoholic alternative to bottled pop,……