The other day my dh and I were on a date--the first in almost a year!--and we decided to stop into a local shop that sells used and rare books.
I was so excited for find, for only $15, a real 1912 edition of the Boston Cooking School Cookbook, which is now known as the Fanny Farmer Cookbook. It has some food stains on the pages, but overall it's in great shape.
It's filled with wonderful old fashioned recipes (of course), many of which include liberal use of lard and other traditional fats.
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In the beginning of the book is a section of information on general nutrition which was quite fascinating. It included the advice that babies' diet should consist of mostly milk until they are 18 months old, and that they should not be fed any solid food at all until after they get their teeth, because before that they lack the necessary "ferments" to digest starches. I thought it was quite amazing that 100 years ago people knew that babies can't digest grains, and then fast forward a few generations to when I was a baby (in the 70s) and doctors were telling people to give cereal to newborns. I myself was started on cereal at a mere 2 weeks old.
Anyway...just wanted to share my joy over my find!
I was so excited for find, for only $15, a real 1912 edition of the Boston Cooking School Cookbook, which is now known as the Fanny Farmer Cookbook. It has some food stains on the pages, but overall it's in great shape.
It's filled with wonderful old fashioned recipes (of course), many of which include liberal use of lard and other traditional fats.
:In the beginning of the book is a section of information on general nutrition which was quite fascinating. It included the advice that babies' diet should consist of mostly milk until they are 18 months old, and that they should not be fed any solid food at all until after they get their teeth, because before that they lack the necessary "ferments" to digest starches. I thought it was quite amazing that 100 years ago people knew that babies can't digest grains, and then fast forward a few generations to when I was a baby (in the 70s) and doctors were telling people to give cereal to newborns. I myself was started on cereal at a mere 2 weeks old.
Anyway...just wanted to share my joy over my find!
