It’s a navy blue hardback book the size of a smart phone. Inside the cover is this photo:
This pocket cookbook was published in 1922 by the Connecticut College Endowment Fund. It came to me from the home of my grandfather-in-law, Daddy Lewis, who lived on Shelter Island, across Long Island Sound by ferry from New London, CT.
Here is an excerpt from the Introduction:
One day a friend of Aunt Colie was giving a party, and asked, as a neighborly favor, that Aunt Colie make a cake for her. The party was a great success and the cake met with such approval that it was suggested, half in fun, that Aunt Colie “go into the business.” As she was a widow, and was quite alone, after some consideration, she did, “go into the business.”
What I notice are the commas, how they pace the reading of that last sentence, how they date the writing.
Each recipe is like a tweet, and most of each page is blank. Aunt Colie assumes the reader will know how hot to make the oven, and how to tell when the cake or pie is thoroughly baked.
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POPOVERS:
Make some little time before baking. One pint milk, 1 pint flour, 2 eggs, salt. Beat eggs (without separating) then add to them a little of the milk and then a little of the flour-alternating. Bake in hot buttered pans.
