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Peg Bracken's Hellzapoppin Cheese Rice

Posted Oct 30th 2007 4:31PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Dairy, Recipes, Books, Rice

Last week Bob wrote a post about how cookbook author Peg Bracken had died. I followed up his post with one of my own that included her recipe for Fake Hollendaise. It was only after that post went up that I noticed that a commenter had specifically asked if anyone had Bracken's recipe for Hellzapoppin Cheese Rice. Mary, this one is for you.

Hellzapoppin Cheese Rice

4 cups cooked rice
4 eggs
2 tablespoons minced onion
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons salt
1 pound grated sharp Cheddar
small pinch each of thyme and marjoram
1 package chopped frozen spinach
1 cup milk
4 tablespoons melted butter

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Peg Bracken's Fake Hollandaise Sauce

Posted Oct 28th 2007 8:29PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Dairy, Recipes, Books, Retro cookery

As we noted last week, Peg Bracken, author of the I Hate To Cook Book and the original queen of recipe short cuts, died last week at the age of 89. This morning Weekend Edition aired an interview that Liane Hanson did with Bracken in 1999. She was witty and irreverent and hearing the interview sent me to my bookshelf to find my copy of her book.

Flipping through it, her voice leaped off the page. Some of her recipes are a bit dated and yet many of them are still very useful and relevant. One recipe that jumped out at me was her instructions for Fake Hollandaise, because that was one of my grandmother's go-to sauces. She would make it to pour over steamed broccoli, boiled potatoes and to fancy up asparagus. So, in honor of Peg Bracken's life and work, I offer you her Fake Hollandaise recipe after the jump.

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Peg Bracken dead at 89

Posted Oct 26th 2007 5:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Books, How To, Retro cookery

Peg Bracken was the author of a bestselling cookbook that I really have to find a copy of, The I Hate To Cook Book. She was one of the first to suggest (late 50s, early 60s) that busy housewives use store bought items and other shortcuts in their meal making. She was a former advertising executive who went on to write other books, including I Hate To Housekeep Book, other cookbooks, and the memoir A Window Over The Kitchen Sink.

She died of pulmonary fibrosis in Portland, OR.

The I Hate To Cook Book

Posted Jan 31st 2006 9:41AM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Books, Did you know?, America, Retro cookery

"Some women, it is said, like to cook. This book is not for them."

If you have any interest at all in cooking or history, you must get your hands on a copy of Peg Bracken's I Hate To Cook Book. Published in 1960, Peg Bracken was the forerunner to women like Sandra Lee, taking a semi-homemade approach to things that she felt obligated to do, like cooking for her husband. Peg's strategy was to get away from the stove and onto another cocktail as quickly as possibly. Her writing is clever and witty, downright hilarious at times. Even without considering that it is a cookbook, it makes a great read.

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