Sunday, January 27, 2013

Recipes of the Vintage Variety, Get Out the Fork and Knife!

I've been looking for more vintage recipe sites. 

I put a few in my blogroll, but some aren't blogs and some won't work with the "feed detection" process Blogger has.   I bookmarked them for myself and knew you were dying to see a few interesting and gross recipes too.   So you think!


From a site called Retronaut which seems to be vintage pictures, Bologna Cups with Peas!  Eeewww.  Note you spread the bologna with FAT.  Yummy.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I imagine it looks all the more tantalizing in color.
 
 
 
I may be able to add the blog Hey My Mom Used to Make That!    which has recipes from the 1950s that surely nobody would make today but ooooh it has that traffic accident appeal, doesn't it?
 
 
 
How about some tasty Veg-All Tuna Upside Down Bake?
 
 
 
 
Here's Veg-All's recipe for Tuna Upside Down Bake.
1 1-lb. can Veg-All
1 7-oz. can tuna fish
1/4 c. milk
3 tbsp. butter
1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. black pepper
1/4 tsp. paprika
1 c. grated milk cheese
1 tsp. Worcestshire sauce
2 c. commercial or homemade biscuit mix
2/3 c. milk
Drain Veg-All. Save liquid. Flake tuna. Heat Veg-All liquid with 1/4 c. milk. Melt butter; add flour, salt, pepper, paprika. Stir 'til smooth. Add hot liquid slowly, stirring. Cook over medium heat, stirring until thick. Add cheese, Worchestshire sauce; stir over low heat until smooth. Mix half Veg-All and all tuna. Spread rest of Veg-All in greased 9 x 9-in. baking pan. Add creamed mixture. Add 2/3 c. milk to biscuit mix; blend. Knead 10 times. Roll between waxed paper to size 9 x 9 square 1/4-in. thick. Place on mixture in pan. Bake 25 min. at 350˚ F. Turn upside down on plate.
 
 
While searching I found a Huffington Post article called Vintage Recipes: Looking back at old-time tastes.  It has this haunting photo of Ham and Bananas Hollandaise:
 
 
 
But not the recipes alas. I found one of my baking blogroll divas Vintage Recipecards does have it (but her picture of the food didn't look quite as gross)
 
 
medium bananas
1/4 cup lemon juice
6 thin slices boiled ham (about 1/2 lb)
3 tablespoons prepared mustard
2 envelopes (1 1/4-oz size) hollandaise sauce mix
1/4 cup light cream
1. Preheat oven to 400F. Lightly butter 2-quart, shallow baking dish.
2. Peel bananas; sprinkle each with 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice, to prevent darkening.
3. Spread ham slices with mustard. Wrap each banana in slice of ham. Arrange in single layer in casserole. Bake 10 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, make sauce: In small saucepan, combine sauce mix with 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and cream. Heat, stirring, to boiling; pour over bananas. Bake 5 minutes longer, or until slightly golden. Nice with a green salad for brunch or lunch. Makes 6 servings.


The Huffington post article has twelve nice recipe shots including Racoon Roast. 




Bon Appetits The 15 Most Insane Vintage Recipes Published in Bon Appetit




From Retro Recipe Attempts Tasting the fare of yesteryear, the disastrous and the delicious


We have Meatloaf Meets Alien!   aka Roll-in-One Meatloaf





Alas no mouth watering photos, but lots of older recipes can be found at Recipe Rewind  Vintage recipes and Retro recipes




Answer: My Favorite Book Rebus

In sixth grade, the school librarian noted I was an avid reader with that keen librarian eye some have.  She suggested a few books to me, one of them being:



 
 
 
 
 
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.   I solemnly told her I wasn't interested in science fiction because it was all about "spacemen and blasters".  Where I got that I can't imagine.  I had been watching every science fiction film I could find on late night and Saturday morning television for years.  Maybe I just didn't want to admit I was a big fan of something so unusual for a girl.
 
 
A Wrinkle in Time was written in 1962 and I read it just a few years later.  Meg was a wonderful character for me to meet when I did.  I have often gone back and read her adventures over the years and the story of her bravery and love are just as powerful with each re-reading.
 
 
 
There is a site celebrating Madeleine and her many works, visit it here
 
 
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Mystery Crossword

I like crosswords and want to make them but I have had terrible luck with the online generators available. 

I don't care to purchase software because they may not work for posting here any better than anything else.  Grr I say.  I had high hopes for the Read Writer Think Puzzle Maker until the finished product displayed with the clues in a little box that required you to scroll to see the clues.










Boo hiss.  They let me print out the puzzle and it looked great but then I had to try to scan it and then post it like this:




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lord knows what this will look like when I hit publish.  A mystery indeed!   Just in case this displays decently, answers will be up next Saturday along with a new and exciting puzzle!
 
Ha!  Looks fine when you enlarge it.  Yay, I say.  I can scan the Answer key I printed as well so this puzzle is in the bag.
 


Thursday, January 24, 2013

My Favorite Book Rebus

If you know me and my reading habits, you don't need to decode the rebus to know what my all time favorite book is.  Tiny!  You may have to click to enlarge.



Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A Note from Ken Follett

I should sign up for more author newsletters.  I really enjoy them.  Here is one from Ken Follett on his Century Trilogy.  If I put this here, next time someone begs to know when the next book in this popular series comes out, I can just search my ever handy blog.  Isn't he a sweetie pie though.


Dear Librarian,
Happy New Year! I hope that it will be a peaceful, prosperous and rewarding one.
Thank you for your wonderful response to Fall of Giants and Winter of the World. I'm delighted that so many readers have thought them engrossing stories that have also provided some insight into the great events of the first half of the 20th century.
I am hard at work on the third novel in the 'Century' trilogy, Edge of Eternity. This will follow the descendants of the five families through the Cold War and into the end of the century. I expect this to be published toward the end of 2014. Many people write to me to ask if I can write faster, but I regret that I cannot!
In the meantime, paperback editions of Winter of the World should be published in the US, UK and several other countries from August onward.
Last year also saw the release of the eight-hour TV miniseries of World Without End in many countries, which should be available on DVD this year.
As the publication and screening dates are confirmed, I'll publish details on my website, Facebook and Twitter.
I really appreciate the feedback I get from my readers. If you want to get in touch, please do so through my web site, on my Facebook page or via Twitter.
Best wishes and good reading!
Ken







Please Bare With Us...

I'm not a "grammar Nazi" who finds delight in finding spelling and punctuation errors in the writings of others, but there is one that I see in gaming all the time that just should not be there.  Using "bare" rather than "bear".  Ack ack.


Please bear with us!  Bear bear bear!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

So, what's the most interesting question you've ever had?

We get students of some ilk or other in periodically with a list of questions about the Mysteries of the Library. 

Where is the card catalog (scratch paper gone long ago).

What do you like about working in the library (the peeps, kiddo).

Can you use the Internet without a library card (sort of yes, sort of no).

Do you have a catalog and databases on separate computers?  (All on everything)

WHAT IS THE MOST INTERESTING QUESTION YOU'VE EVER HAD????????????????????? (So, of the perhaps thousands I've answered over the years, you think I have a favorite?  I do not.  I like every question I get that isn't a math or car repair question.  I love recommending books and authors to avid and returning readers.)


A Science Fictional Word Search


I personally love word searches.  They're just little visual puzzles that are simple yet fun.  Thinking up the themes and words is the tricky part.







 
 
 
 
 
T N F V N Y U G S W F L J N K A O W H Z O I R

M N Q N Y I H E E E G E A B P M U K G B L Y T

O T A Y E E Y N N C L M I H W T E K C O R Z F

O T P C G I L T T Q J O H E H U Q P X X W H O

N E L A I W L C I R A A H P O R G O F S B A R

G K R I C L H A E V O R Y M W V K I P X H L B

C C H C G K P J N M A A E L R W B A U O E D C

Z A N Y R H H E T T P R N P Q O C N R D I E W

Y R T D N I T H R Q I Q G S O E W T X A N M E

T B F M Q C T S U B C B P T C E S M L R L A G

V T O B O R I R P S A T R O I I C M T A E N X

D F N Y M Y M S P E Q U L O T N T A F P I Q I

Y Y D S U O E T E M E O H N C E A P P X N X F

S B S M F G T N C L N D E Y N W S T C S B G U

O I C R S E R A A Y I I B A O E U E C O L T W

N P N O P N A T P B C O L R E W T L B N A E V

S O O F J I V U S S R P C O E C Q E X A S R I

P H Y A F C E M R G G E F I C U E P Y N T R U

H L U R D S L R E I E J N L L Z H A U O E A W

E A Q R I U R A P Y M B J M A P O T N T R N I

R P Z E B N M T Y W A V E M R X U H C E A N E

E B U T V V B S H U R X V E K H Y I D C K P O

B M L Q H A S I M O V Y T B E W T O C H Q E S

 

 

alien
Heinlein
rocket
antigravity
hyperspace
scientist
Asimov
lightspeed
sentient
BEM
moon
spacecolony
blaster
mutants
spaceopera
Brackett
nanotech
star
Clarke
orbit
telepath
cryogenics
paradox
terraform
cyborg
planet
terran
Dysonsphere
Pohl
timetravel
FTL
replicant
Weinbaum
Haldeman
robot
wormhole

 

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Five Reasons Not To Read the Book In Hand

Truly, life is all about so many books, so little time. 

Many people slog all the way through any book they begin.  My eyes pop out at them. 

Some people will read 50 pages then decide.  Why suffer?

There are variations galore.  For a book by a new author I'm considering, I read the jacket flap and back and read the first page to get a feel for the writing style, the character and the interest level.



 
 
 
The book has no shot with me if:
 
 
 
 
1.  It is written in first person present tense.   Gawd.  So pretentious and jarring.   "I walk down the hall and smell the bacon.  It transports my nostrils to another time and place."
 
 
 
2.  The book opens with alot of boring description of a place or person.  Let's jump into the action!
 
 
 
3. The characters are immediately unlikeable : whiny, smarmy, prissy, dark evil serial killers (see how these all go together.)
 
 
4. The book is badly written and just goes blah blah blah from the first line.   Zzzzzzzzzz........
 
 
5.  The book is part of a series I've enjoyed but clearly the author has long since tired of the character and series and it shows.


This Week's Cryptogram Answer

 
 
 
 

RPN UHRO BI RPN DHAMHAM IVZCN FO UVZSE ZDPRBA DCHRP
THE CITY OF THE SINGING FLAME BY CLARK ASHTON SMITH    
 
 
 

 
 
 
The City of the singing flame is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. His prose reminds me of Lovecraft, and his wierd imagination is unparalled.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Mortal Engines Q and A with Philip Reeve on January 19






Philip Reeve will host an "ask me anything" Q and A on the Mortal Engines Redditt forum on Saturday.  Do you think he'll say if there will be another Fever Crumb Book?  :)  


Details above or visit his blog.


This Week's Cryptogram

 
 
 
Here's a fine title and author from my personal shelves for a shorter cryptogram this week:
 
 
 
RPN UHRO BI RPN DHAMHAM IVZCN FO UVZSE ZDPRBA DCHRP
 
 
Answer on Saturday!
 
 
 
 
 


Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Book Title Rebus

Here's a Tuesday Book Title and Author for you:
Answer on Friday!





The answer to this week's Rebus is:

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

 
 
 
 
In what at first seems a twisted version of Lost, a plane full of teen beauty contestants crash land on a small island.  They are fiercely determined to win the pageant so they attempt to follow beauty pageant rules on the island rather than think about survival.  As they pose and preen their way through the jungle, they find other forces at large on the island may make it impossible to maintain their poise and beauty.

Upcoming Science Fiction & Fantasy

There's a nice article from IO9 called All the Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Are Coming in 2013  by Charlie Jane Anders that has some good ideas for reading science fiction this year.





 












Also a list of upcoming titles at SciFan: Books and Links for the Science Fiction Fan

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Saturday, January 12, 2013

Cryptogram Answer

 
 
 
 

YXH RIH GO R CGZRL AGHUL'Y ZHRL R YXTLI. YXH MHUY YPLHU RFH KWREHA GL YXH GWAHUY OTAAWHU.

 

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
Here, here!   Go Ralph.

Friday, January 11, 2013

How many Newbery Award Winners Have you read?

 
 
 
 
 
I've alot more work to do on the Newbery Awards.  It seems I read more of them during my years as a young adult librarian.  Some I read just for myself as a kid.  Some of the ones I haven't read have always sounded intriguing, a few would still be torturous to read, such as one my high school librarian thought I'd like.  She obviously didn't have my reading tastes down.  I tried to read all of the fiction in her library.  Onion John stands out as a title that I just couldn't bear to crack the spine on.  I avoided reading the romantic books the popular girls were reading because, well, like I wanted any of their taste in reading in my head.  Stubborn mule as always.
 
 
 
 
2011: Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos





2011: Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool





2010: When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead





2009: The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman





2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies : Voices From A Medieval Village
by Amy Laura Schlitz





2007: The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron





2006: Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins





2005: Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata





2004: The Tale of Despereaux:
Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread



by Kate DiCamillo


2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi


2002: A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park


2001: A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck


2000: Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis


1999: Holes
by Louis Sachar


1998: Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse


1997: The View From Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg


1996: The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman


1995: Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech


1994: The Giver
by Lois Lowry


1993: Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant


1992: Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds


1991: Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli


1990: Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry


1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
by Paul Fleischman


1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography
by Russell Freedman


1987: The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman


1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan


1985: The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley


1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary


1983: Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt


1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn:
Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers



by Nancy Willard


1981: Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson


1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
by Joan W. Blos


1979: The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin


1978: Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson


1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor


1976: The Grey King
by Susan Cooper


1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great
byVirginia Hamilton


1974: The Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox


1973: Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George


1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien


1971: Summer of the Swans
by Betsy Byers


1970: Sounder
by William H. Armstrong


1969: The High King
by Lloyd Alexander


1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg


1967: Up a Road Slowly
by Irene Hunt


1966: I, Juan de Pareja
by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino


1965: Shadow of a Bull
by Maia Wojciechowska


1964: It's Like This, Cat
by Emily Neville


1963: A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle


1962: The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare


1961: Island of the blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell


1960: Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold


1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare


1958: Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith


1957: Miracles on Maple Hill
by Virginia Sorenson


1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham


1955: The Wheel on the School
by Meindert DeJong


1954: ...And Now Miguel
by Joseph Krumgold


1953: Secret of the Andes
by Ann Nolan Clark


1952: Ginger Pye
by Eleanor Estes


1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates


1950: The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite de Angeli


1949: King of the Wind
by Marguerite Henry


1948: The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pene du Bois


1947: Miss Hickory
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey


1946: Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski


1945: Rabbit Hill
by Robert Lawson


1944: Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes


1943: Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray


1942: The Matchlock Gun
by Walter Edmonds


1941: Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry


1940: Daniel Boone
by James Daugherty


1939: Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright


1938: The White Stag
by Kate Seredy


1937: Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer


1936: Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink


1935: Dobry
by Monica Shannon


1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by Cornelia Meigs


1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Coatsworth


1932: Waterless Mountain
by Laura Adams Armer


1931: The Cat Who Went To Heaven
by Elizabeth Coatsworth


1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
by Rachel Field


1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly


1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji


1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse
by Will James


1926: Shen of the Sea
by Arthur Bowie Chrisman


1925: Tales from Silver Lands
by Charles Finger


1924: The Dark Frigate
by Charles Hawes


1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting


1922: The Story of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem van Loon


































































































































































































































































































How Many Caldecott Winners Have You Read?

 
 
 
 
I always feel as if it should be doable and pleasant to read all of the Caldecott and Newbery Award Winners because they're short and fun.   I think I boldy put reading all of the Caldecott's on my job here's-what-I should-do-to-improve-myself Individual Development Plan for the year.  Never made it through.  Never got mentioned on my review.  Needer.  The awards are given out each January so this list is hovering in my mind once more.
 
 
 
Here are the past rewards and highlighted are the ones I have read so far in my long time efforts.  I think I'm actually making progress!
 
 
 

Caldecott Award Winners

This award, named in honor of nineteenth-century illustrator Randolph Caldecott, is given each year to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

1938
Fish, Helen Dean and Lathrop, Dorothy P. (illus.)
1939
Handforth, Thomas
Mei Li. (out of print)
1940
D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
1941
Lawson, Robert
1942

McCloskey, Robert

1943

Burton, Virginia Lee

1944

Thurber, James and Slobodkin, Louis (illus.)

1945

Field, Rachel and Jones, Elizabeth Orton (illus.)

1946
Petersham, Maud and Miska
1947
MacDonald, Golden and Weisgard, Leonard (illus.)
1948
Tresselt, Alvin and Duvoisin, Roger (illus.)
1949

Hader, Berta and Elmer

1950
Politi, Leo
1951
Milhous, Katherine
1952
Will and Nicolas (illlus.)
1953

Ward, Lynd

1954
Bemelmans, Ludwig
1955

Perrault, Charles and Brown, Marcia (illus.)

1956

Langstaff, John and Rojankovsky, Feodor (illus.)

1957

Udry, Janice May and Simont, Marc (illus.)

1958
McCloskey, Robert
1959

Chaucer, Geoffrey and Cooney, Barbara (illus.)

1960

Ets, Marie Hall

1961

Robbins, Ruth and Sidjakov, Nicolas (illus.)

1962

Brown, Marcia


1963

Keats, Ezra Jack


1964

Sendak, Maurice

1965
De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk and Montresor, Beni (illus.)
1966

Leodhas, Sorche Nic and Hogrogian, Nonny (illus.)

1967

Ness, Evaline


1968

Emberley, Barbara and Emberley, Ed (illus.)


1969

Ransome, Arthur and Shulevitz, Uri (illus.)


1970

Steig, William


1971

Haley, Gail E.


1972

Hogrogian, Nonny


1973

Mosel, Arlene and Lent, Blair (illus.)

1974
Zemach, Harve and Zemach, Margot (illus.)
1975

McDermott, Gerald


1976

Aardema, Verna and Dillon, Leo and Diane (illus.)


1977

Musgrove, Margaret and Dillon, Leo and Diane (illus.)


1978

Spier, Peter

1979

Goble, Paul


1980

Hall, Donald and Cooney, Barbara (illus.)


1981

Lobel, Arnold


1982

Van Allsburg, Chris

1983
Cendrars, Blaise and Brown, Marcia (illus.)
1984
Provensen, Alice and Martin
1985

Hodges, Margaret and Hyman, Trina Schart (illus.)


1986

Van Allsburg, Chris


1987

Yorinks, Arthur and Egielski, Richard (illus.)


1988

Yolen, Jane and Schoenherr, John (illus.)


1989

Ackerman, Karen and Gammell, Stephen (illus.)


1990

Young, Ed


1991

Macaulay, David


1992

Wiesner, David


1993

McCully, Emily


1994

Say, Allen


1995

Bunting, Eve and Diaz, David (illus.)


1996

Rathmann, Peggy


1997

Wisniewski, David


1998

Zelinsky, Paul O.

1999
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs and Azarian, Mary (illus.)
2000
Taback, Simms
2001
St. George, Judith and Small, David (illus.)
2002

Wiesner, David

2003
Rohmann, Eric
2004
Gerstein, Mordicai
2005
Henkes, Kevin
2006
Juster, Norton and Raschka, Chris (illus.)
2007
Wiesner, David
2008

Selznick, Brian

2009
Swanson, Susan Marie and Krommes, Beth (illus.)
2010
Pinkney, Jerry
2011
Stead, Philip Christian and Erin E. (illus.)
2012
Raschka, Christopher