Tag: Food and cooking
In the Kitchen with Doctor Carrot
Recipes for Carrot Salad, Carrot Marmalade, and Carrot Cookies What would Edith (a character both real and fictional in the novel Ashes and Ruins) have done with a bounty of carrots? Dr. Carrot, an ubiquitous cartoon carrot-man, urged Brits to eat lots of the easily grown orange veggie. Unlike onions, citrus fruit, and fish (also…
Soup with Potato Pete
Vichyssoise and Potage of Potatoes and Leeks, both with Sorrel Butter DURING WORLD WAR II in the UK, every child and every housewife knew Potato Pete. The rotund, anthropomorphic potato wore a jaunty hat, spats, and well-polished black shoes. He greeted the kids and their mothers from posters, newspaper ads, and the popular radio show,…
Memories of stollen
When December arrives, I begin to think Christmas thoughts. This leads to memories of hot chocolate, eggnog, mulled cider, and all the goodies that go with them. My childhood memories of Christmas always include the German holiday bread called Stollen. Early in her marriage, my mother learned to make this traditional confection to please my…