Negative Space: recipes
- All Mimsy recipes
- These are all of the recipes; to focus on a particular style, choose that link.
- A Bicentennial Meal for the Sestercentennial
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Four community cookbooks celebrating the bicentennial. As we approach our sestercentennial in 2026, what makes a meal from 1976?
- Club recipe archive
- Every Sunday, the Padgett Sunday Supper Club features one special recipe. These are the recipes that have been featured on past Sundays.
- Eddie Doucette recipe sampler
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Despite their occasional weirdness, I’ve yet to try a recipe that didn’t turn out at least pretty good. Some are amazing.
- Food
- Recipes, cookbook reviews, food notes, and restaurant reviews. Unless otherwise noted, I have personally tried each recipe that gets its own page, but not necessarily recipes listed as part of a cookbook review.
- Granola, the ultimate breakfast
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Granola tends to be the more expensive cereal in stores, but the easiest and cheapest to make at home.
- A home-cooking handful from Eddie Doucette
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A glimpse at a long-lost 1954 Chicagoland television cooking show, including recipes. They were typed by a viewer, so some of them require creative interpretation.
- Hope Lutheran 1950 Lenten fish au gratin
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One of the interesting things about old calendars that are also something else—such as a cookbook—is that they follow seasons that no longer exist.
- Ice creamy: more no-churn ice cream recipes
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If eight ice cream recipes isn’t enough, how about six more? Try ice cream with evaporated milk, condensed milk, and with nothing but cream.
- Looking back over 1950 in vintage cooking
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While I didn’t make my goal of trying a recipe every month in the month it was meant for, following this calendar through 2023 was an interesting experience and provided some very good food.
- My year in food: 2022
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From New Year to Christmas, from ice cream to casseroles, from San Diego to New Orleans, from 1893 to 2014… and beyond!
- Padgett Sunday Supper Club
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Dedicated to the preservation of vintage recipes.
- Plain & Fancy in the seventies with Hiram Walker
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Enjoy a whole new world of fun, excitement and discovery in Hiram Walker Cordials, adding a personal touch to all your memorable moments and special occasions—plain or fancy!
- Popcorn is a many-splendored thing
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Ways to make popcorn besides merely butter and salt. Curried popcorn, popcorn granola, chocolate popcorn, creamy popcorn, and caramel popcorn.
- Summer Ices Part Three: A Trilogy of Frozen Desserts
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In what is rapidly becoming a new tradition, here are two more ice creams plus an icy sorbet to help cool your summer in 2024.
- Tempt Them with Tastier Foods: Second Printing
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The second printing of Tempt Them with Tastier Foods contains several newly-discovered Eddie Doucette recipes, as well as an interview with the chef’s son, Eddie Doucette III.
- A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book
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A Traveling Man’s Cookery Book is a collection of recipes that I enjoy making while traveling, and in other people’s kitchens.
More Information
- The Charlotte Cook Book (PDF)
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“A selection of tested recipes” from the First Congregational Church of Charlotte, Michigan, 1893.
