"vintage cookbooks" news and stories

Has your baking bug bit? Here's one way: take a peek in a vintage cookbook, especially one like Amy's beautiful Fleishmann's pamphlet. It makes me just want to head to the kitchen and bury my fingers in flower, butter, sugar and lots and lots of cinnamon. On my schedule for tonight's late-night baking fix: either orange-lemon bundt cake or toasted hazelnut cake from Patricia Wells' Trattoria (I'm in love with Patricia today). Hmm...

Are you inspired to bake in this gray, drizzly, cold days?

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Old is new again as vintage cookbooks are rediscovered online. These books, previously relegated to the back of closets everywhere, are being dusted off, opened and enjoyed. They were even the subject of a blogging event. They range from the insightful - perhaps an old Joy of Cooking - to the bizarre, like this old copy of The Ground Meat Cookbook from the 50s found via BoingBoing.

The cookbook contains "204 intriguing ground meat recipes", but also contains general cooking tips, lovely illustrations and surprisingly appetizing photography. It is unlikely I would want to try the "Jellied Veal Loaf", but I do think I will take a look through the back of my grandparents' kitchen cupboard the next time I visit.

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