Category: cooking

  • Cornbread – a recipe

    Wikipedia tells me: “Cornbread is a quick bread made with cornmeal, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine. It is an example of batter bread.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornbread I describe this recipe as a “comfort food” – not so much because it reminds me of th comforts of hearth and home but because it is easy…

  • Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie

    a video of one of the recipes in the cookbook the recipes are collected from “old” cook books. It is interesting seeing some of the (minor) changes in recipes over time – in this recipe the original instructions started with “7 ounce bars of chocolate” then required chopping those bars into “pea size pieces” —…