Category: Recipe

PODCAST Episode 304: Family Cookbook – Comfort Foods for COVID (with recipes)

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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Well, the landscape has changed a lot since my last episode! I hope that you are well, healthy and stocked and sheltering safely, not worrying about your kin. Today I have some comfort food recipes from my mother and grandmother. We’re starting with an apple cake with cream cheese frosting (because on sick days, we … Read More “PODCAST Episode 304: Family Cookbook – Comfort Foods for COVID (with recipes)” »

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PODCAST Episode 211: Family Cookbook – My Saucy Grandma (with transcript)

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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My mother’s mother, Ga, was a quiet, staid woman. She was peaceful, smiling, a model DAR and Midwestern sorority sister. But underneath it all…she was SAUCY. In this episode, I’ll give you some of my grandmother’s “International” sauce recipes (because sauce was a staple on her dinner table), and the reasons why I think her … Read More “PODCAST Episode 211: Family Cookbook – My Saucy Grandma (with transcript)” »

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PODCAST Episode 207: Family Cookbook – Cakes and More Cakes

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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Today we have a new Patron, and new law in New York that will shake up the ENTIRE GENEALOGY WORLD – even outside the United States – the Weprin-Montgomery Law. Oh, and we have two brilliant cake recipes. One is from an Army wife friend of my grandmother’s in the 1940s or 1950s, but the … Read More “PODCAST Episode 207: Family Cookbook – Cakes and More Cakes” »

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PODCAST Episode 204: The Family Cookbook – Peanut Butter Muffins from U of Hawaii

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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Did you ever take Home Economics in school? In the 1950s, only girls and women did, all the way through college. My mother ended up taking Home Economics at the University of Hawaii because she was trying to figure out what she wanted to do. She ended up leaving college, becoming a stewardess, meeting my … Read More “PODCAST Episode 204: The Family Cookbook – Peanut Butter Muffins from U of Hawaii” »

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PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 6: Cookies of Christmas Past

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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In Western culture, what’s the most important Christmas food? The Christmas cookie! There are entire baking competition TV series about the creation and decoration of Christmas cookies. There are entire family traditions about families baking and distributing Christmas cookies. There are secret recipes, national recipes, traditional recipes. In fact, it’s become kind-of an obsession in … Read More “PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 6: Cookies of Christmas Past” »

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PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 5: A Yankee Thanksgiving, 1895

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Have you ever wondered what an old-fashioned, 19th-century, British-traditioned Yankee Thanksgiving was like? In the land of the original Pilgrims, did they really eat turkey? This episode draws on recipes from a November, 1895 issue of The Boston Globe and in it we’ll explore recipes that go all the way back to the 16th century … Read More “PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 5: A Yankee Thanksgiving, 1895” »

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PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 4: Diwali Lakshmi (the Hindu Festival of Lights), 2005-2006 (with transcript)

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I’m back after a brief illness-induced break, and while I’m not up to teaching yet, I am definitely here to celebrate! How much do YOU know about Diwali? I knew basically nothing but the name until I put this episode together. This is the final day of Diwali, and isn’t it our good luck that … Read More “PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 4: Diwali Lakshmi (the Hindu Festival of Lights), 2005-2006 (with transcript)” »

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PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 3 – Depression-Era Halloween in Miami with Colonel Goodbody, 1932

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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It’s Episode 3 in our bonus series for Fall – vintage recipes mix with straight-up US history this week as we talk about how the Great Depression changed what newspapers did to extend assistance to housewives at the holidays. I’ll be doing this throughout October, November, and December, for all of the seasonal holidays. Today’s … Read More “PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 3 – Depression-Era Halloween in Miami with Colonel Goodbody, 1932” »

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PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 2 – Halloween Candy, Cookies and a DRAGON, 1904

Posted on By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
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It’s Episode 2 in our bonus series for Fall – vintage recipes, foodways, social and cultural history culled from early- to mid-20th century newspapers. We’re hitting all the holidays that fall in October, November, and December, including Kwanzaa – but I may need your help with that. The recipes I’ve found in newspapers so far … Read More “PODCAST Seasonal Bonus 2 – Halloween Candy, Cookies and a DRAGON, 1904” »

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