Oriental Roasted Chicken Sous Vide (1976, Boston, adapted)

Oriental Roasted Chicken Sous Vide is a vintage roast chicken recipe elevated by modern cooking techniques.  The recipe comes originally from Presenting Boston…, a 1976 Junior League cookbook.  Oven-baked chicken is a popular dish in my community cookbooks from the 70s and 80s, coinciding with changing dietary habits.  (U.S. chicken consumption roughly doubled between 1960……

Airy Light Casserole Bread (Oklahoma, 1970s)

Airy Light Casserole Bread is a simple yeast bread that resembles focaccia, but with much less work.  The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a community cookbook compiled by my parents’ Oklahoma congregation in the late 1970s.  I’ve never been particularly good with yeast breads, but was intrigued by the unusual……