Happy Boxing Day! Please make sure to wear proper sized head guards, well padded gloves, and a fitted mouth guard. We don't want any injuries when returning gifts at the mall.

This cookbook also uses one of my favorite old-cookbook styles -- cook something with tomatoes, and you can call it Mexican. Cook it with tomatoes and onions, and it's Spanish.

Also, spaghetti recipes that say to boil it for 30 minutes.

Cook it with spinach and it's Florentine!

Cook it with avocado and it's Californian!

"Lentils, Oriental Style" is just plain boiled lentils and rice with some fried onion.

Spinach is to be boiled for 20 minutes, then cooked in a pan with some butter.

This recipe seems to be missing a key ingredient:

IDEAL CHILLI SAUCE

Tomatoes, stewed, 1 quart.
Celery salt, 1 teaspoon.
Sugar, 1 tablespoon.
Onion, large, sliced, 1.
Salt, 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Mix all together, and let simmer two or three hours. Strain through a sieve. Serve with croquettes, broiled protose, or nuttolene.

It all started with TNT showing Episode III. I had boycotted it because Jar Jar was so damn annoying. But folks said it was good. So I watched it. And now I pulled out my DVD's of IV, V, and VI original theatrical releases. Watching planet Hoth on a cold winter morning makes me dive under blankie more.

1914 dietary instructions say not to eat fruits and vegetables at the same meal. If you want to have a fruit dessert, then have a meal made of rice, macaroni, or nut foods. If you want to have vegetables as the main course, then serve a squash pie or custard for dessert.

I gotta mention that it's not very readable in a huge chunk of text, like paragraphs, so if you're using it for correspondence, you might want to switch to a serif font

Heh - I admire your diplomacy.

He's VERY good-natured, and just chuckled at my rant and said that he loves Comic Sans. So, no blood was shed. YET.

I'm reading through the old vegetarian cookbook -- this is the 1914 edition of a cookbook originally published in 1910.

The Bro and SiL gave us Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (which I promptly re-named "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, ESPECIALLY TIM" [he doesn't do a lot of the cooking around here, despite the fact that he's the vegetarian]), which is this amazing 750-page book that's not just a cookbook; it has long sections on the ingredients, and how they work in different dishes, and different cooking techniques, and why (for instance) arborio rice is preferred over basmati rice in such-and-such dish.

I'm really going to dig reading it.

ION, I didn't get to bed until 3 a.m. last night, but then I slept for 10 hours and I feel somewhat human today. Though my head is still stuffy, but I think that's on the way out.

Glad you're feeling somewhat human today, Tep.

Looks like we're going to go see Sherlock Holmes today, for reals! As opposed to just talking about it like yesterday.

1914 dietary instructions say not to eat fruits and vegetables at the same meal. If you want to have a fruit dessert, then have a meal made of rice, macaroni, or nut foods. If you want to have vegetables as the main course, then serve a squash pie or custard for dessert.

That era was big on "digestibility" and nsm into what we currently think of as nutrition - lots of white starch with very little fiber was considered FAR more nutritious than the other way around.

(At my cabin up in Canada, we have several old pasta & potato chip tins that we use for storage that proudly proclaim "98% digestible!" on the side as their main selling point.)