Apples to apples
Jun. 5th, 2006 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pallas_athenaWeird food cravings plus bag of apples indahouse= "I know! I'll bake an apple crisp! Or, in British, an apple crumble!"
So I haul out my well-loved, time-honoured, battered, spattered copy of the first cookbook I ever owned: The Joy Of Cooking.
I still haven't started the crisp yet, because I'm now so lost in what an awesome cookbook this is. I have the old edition, not the mimsy new one with its calorie-counting and microwaves. The old edition spits upon microwaves and wipes its hobnailed boots upon calorie-counters. My edition tells you how to skin a squirrel, how to kill a squid, how to choose a chicken (bright eyes, a red comb and a flexible breastbone, apparently). I just opened it to a random page and it said "About Brains." This cookbook is badass.
OK, so the old edition has its faults-- there's a lot of 1950s stodge in here-- but where else are you going to find a recipe for making your own cream cheese?
Right. Time to chop some apples.
So I haul out my well-loved, time-honoured, battered, spattered copy of the first cookbook I ever owned: The Joy Of Cooking.
I still haven't started the crisp yet, because I'm now so lost in what an awesome cookbook this is. I have the old edition, not the mimsy new one with its calorie-counting and microwaves. The old edition spits upon microwaves and wipes its hobnailed boots upon calorie-counters. My edition tells you how to skin a squirrel, how to kill a squid, how to choose a chicken (bright eyes, a red comb and a flexible breastbone, apparently). I just opened it to a random page and it said "About Brains." This cookbook is badass.
OK, so the old edition has its faults-- there's a lot of 1950s stodge in here-- but where else are you going to find a recipe for making your own cream cheese?
Right. Time to chop some apples.