October 24, 2006
Welcome
Hi Everybody!It has been a while since the last ezine, and much has been happening in the interim. Life has been very busy. By now, you will have noticed my website's new appearance. The new top logo and color scheme should help to brighten up the site a bit and make the pages easier to view. I hope you like the new look.
This newsletter has also seen a change. Some readers were wanting better access to Mom's dessert recipes on the website, so I reworked the Best Dessert Recipes page into a whole new recipe category. This new category will showcase the popular dessert recipes from Mom's old recipe box, many of which were previously published in this newsletter, but are now being moved to their new location.
Instead of Mom's recipes, each newsletter will feature a hand-picked Old Fashioned Recipe selected for its historical interest and uniqueness. These nearly forgotten recipes from Great-Grandma's day will be fun to try. It is quite an experience to make and taste the same desserts our forebears once enjoyed.
Well, fall has officially arrived here in Peterborough, and the multicoloured leaves are briskly falling from the trees and filling my eve troughs. Vicki and I are busy stowing away the lawn furniture and finishing up the yard work (and yes, cleaning out the eve troughs -- not fun) in preparation for the coming of winter.
At dusk last evening, I watched from my home-office window as three white-tailed deer cautiously nibbled the fallen red crabapples from beneath the old tree in our yard. Earlier that day, sixteen wild turkeys also pecked at the apples, and then quickly trotted off at the sound of our dog Echo's loud barking. Fall has its own beauty.
It is definitely getting cooler outside, though, and it won't be too long before we have a blanket of snow on the ground. Some parts of the country have had a significant snowfall already. Time again to dig out the winter coats, boots, and scarfs. I feel a chill even writing about it. Burrrr.
Enjoy reading this ezine, and thank you for visiting my website.
Warm regards,
Don
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Website Updates
There are plenty of website updates to announce this edition. Dozens of new recipes!Best Dessert Recipes
This page has been totally redesigned to showcase the best recipes from Mom's old recipe box. Here, you will find links to many old-time dessert recipes which were previously published in this ezine. Recipes for the best chocolate brownies, chocolate cake, oatmeal cookies, meringue-topped cupcakes, and more. For me, this page is like a trip down memory lane. These are many of the delicious desserts I enjoyed in the 1950s, when I was a young boy growing up on our farm.Click here to visit the Best Dessert Recipes page.
Old Fashioned Recipes
This page lists the Old Fashioned Recipes now published in the current and back issues of this ezine. Unique, historical recipes that are sometimes difficult to categorize on the website, but deserve to be included. Over the years, some of these vintage dessert recipes have become all but forgotten. Now, they are available again. You will enjoy trying these unique recipes from yesteryear.Click here to visit the Old Fashioned Recipes page.
Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes
Here are several new pages containing some great dessert recipes to help you celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday. Delicious pies, cakes, puddings, and other dessert items perfect for the autumn table. Many of the unique recipes found on these pages can be used the year-round to make scrumptious desserts for any occasion.Thanksgiving Pie Recipes
Thanksgiving Cake Recipes
Thanksgiving Baking Recipes
Unique Thanksgiving Recipes
Click here to visit the Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes page.
Halloween Dessert Recipes
Children enjoy dressing up in colorful costumes on Halloween to run door-to-door trick or treating. This year, you can treat yourself and your kids to an old-fashioned Halloween. Here are 2 new pages containing some great Halloween treat recipes, and some vintage Halloween party ideas to enjoy.Halloween Candy Recipes
Halloween Party Ideas
Click here to visit the Halloween Dessert Recipes page.
And More To Come
See the next edition for more new pages. Coming soon.Old Fashioned Recipe
Curds And Whey Recipe
This old-fashioned recipe is taken from "Miss Leslie's Seventy-Five Receipts For Pastry, Cakes And Sweetmeats" by Miss Leslie of Philadelphia, published by C. S. Francis and Company, New York and Boston, 1827.Do you remember this old nursery rhyme from childhood?
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away!
Most of us as children have heard this famous old nursery rhyme, but did you ever wonder what Little Miss Muffet's "curds and whey" actually tasted like? Well, now you can try this old-fashioned dessert for yourself.
A modern-day rennet tablet may be used for "a small piece of rennet" in the old recipe, or you can try substituting five or six tablespoons of white vinegar to curdle the quart of warm milk. Heat milk mixture on a warm stove while stirring until the curd forms. Enjoy experimenting with this historic recipe that dates from medieval times.
And just in case you are wondering, a "tuffet" is simply a small footstool. Just watch out for the spider!
Directions how to make curds and whey:
Take a small piece of rennet about two inches square. Wash it very clean in cold water, to get all the salt off, and wipe it dry. Put it into a teacup, and pour on it just enough of lukewarm water to cover it. Let it set all night, or for several hours.
Then, take out the rennet, and stir the water which it was soaked into a quart of warm milk, which should be in a broad dish.
Set the milk in a warm place, till it becomes a firm curd. As soon as the curd is completely made, set it in a cool place, or on ice (if in summer) for two or three hours before you want to use it.
Eat it with wine, sugar, and nutmeg.
When perfectly well made, it always looks greenish.
The whey, drained from the curd, is an excellent drink for invalids
More Old-Fashioned Dessert Recipes
You will find more old-fashioned recipes published in past issues of the Easy Dessert Recipes Ezine.Click here to access Old Fashioned Recipes from past issues.
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Thought For The Day
"I eat merely to put food out of my mind."--N. F. Simpson
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