Chef and Storyteller Erin Brindley lulls you into dreamland reading from old cookbooks. This one, Quick Cooking, A Book of Culinary Heresies from 1891 is a series of perfect little recipe gems, the ones that read like little poems. The is part three of the larger series that started with Episode 31.

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This is Recipe for Sleep, a podcast where we dust off very old cookbooks and let them lull us into dreamland. I'm Erin Brindley, a chef and storyteller, and I'm going to read recipes to yo softly and sweetly, as you drift off to sleep.

Last episode we began 1891's “Quick Cooking: A Book of Culinary Heresies written by one of the heretics,” a very straightforward guide to simple cooking from the wonderful Flora Haines Loughead. If you didn’t catch episode 31, you might want to go back and listen to that just to hear about wonderful Flora, also known as the Opal Queen.

But tonight we’ll just sail right back into the middle of her lovely cookbook that savors simplicity over all other things. (Including in the way it is structured, you’ll notice this is all alphabetical and we’re starting with Cracked Wheat and Apricot Pudding and going right on through to the Lemon section. In between we’ll find Devilled Meat, Eggs, Scrambled, Fairy Butter, Graham Gems, Hash Puffs, Icing, Jelly Roll and Kidneys.

This is Recipe for Sleep, a podcast where we dust off very old cookbooks and let them lull us into dreamland. I’m Erin Brindley, a chef and storyteller. I was combing the shelves for an old cookbook that seemed appropriate for spooky season, and I came across “Quick Cooking: A Book of Culinary Heresies Written by One of the Heretics.” The concept of the cookbook is simple enough…it’s a precurser to Rachel Ray’s genre of quick meals for a busy Mom. But I love how the author, Flora Haines Loughead, frames simplifying complicated recipes as "Heresy" against the purveying idea that the more complicated the dish the more worthy a housewife. Then she goes on to suggest that, with the time you save by not making dinner complicated, you should rest. AMEN FLORA! Rest is resistance.