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Cooking & Baking

surrealAmerican

(11,632 posts)

10. Interesting.

Reply to chowmama (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2025, 12:46 PM

Jan 2025

I have a copy of Irma Rombauer's, A Cookbook for Girls and Boys also from the 1940's. It's a very amusing book, complete with anecdotes, and appears to have been written for the sort of child who cooks all their family's meals.

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Semi-historic food question [View all] chowmama Jan 2025 OP

Surely AI knows how to bake! bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #1

So it's the all-purpose flour that wasn't available chowmama Jan 2025 #5

Most people would use general purpose flour... Lithos Jan 2025 #2

That JoC should probably also moniss Jan 2025 #3

Lard for pastry is usually leaf lard dhol82 Jan 2025 #4

Additionally for fruit pies moniss Jan 2025 #7

I have lard from my Mexican grocery in the freezer. chowmama Jan 2025 #6

LOL!! and I remember the coffee can moniss Jan 2025 #8

A few years back JustAnotherGen Jan 2025 #9

Interesting. surrealAmerican Jan 2025 #10