The Idea

One very common Saturday morning, this past Fall 2014, in Frederick, MD, my husband, Van Corey, were driving around looking for yard sales. We happened across a great street in downtown that had cute, little, older homes and a bunch of yard sales. And these people knew the real deal about yard sales - the prices! We found lots of good treasures: glass insulators for Van, birding books, binoculars, pristine glass wine decanters, and my biggest treasure - an old, tattered copy of The Lancaster County Farm Cook Book (A Collection of Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes from the Garden Spot of America) circa 1967.

So the idea was born. I was going to make recipes from this cookbook! That might not sound like a big deal, right? I'm a good cook. I cook from scratch all the time. Without recipes, with just an idea in my head of what goes together and the theories born and tested through the years of watching every cooking show available on TV. One of my fondest memories is watching Yan Can Cook with my dad when I was a kid.

So what's the big deal about cooking recipes from this cookbook? Well.....this book doesn't give you the things you expect, like, the temperature of the oven, what kind of pan to use, and sometimes even how much of an ingredient to use! Say what? How is that a cookbook?

Let the fun begin! I will pick a recipe, tell you what the cookbook instructions are and then tell you what I did and what the results were. That's what this blog will be about.
Hope you enjoy it!