An Old Cookbook for Lent

Start getting those Lent meals planned! Here’s a late 19th-century gem from England that I found scanned and uploaded one day: Cookery book for fasting and abstinence days. Eel Pie for the very brave, and Macaroni Pie (baked Mac’n’Cheese) for the rest of us! Although the variety of cookery books at present in circulation is…

Book Review: A Continual Feast

If you like to cook, you must have this book: A Continual Feast: A Cookbook to Celebrate the Joys of Family and Faith throughout the Christian Year by Evelyn Birge Vitz   Just what the subtitle describes, this is the cookbook you need for feasting with your Domestic Church–well, for feasting mostly, but there is even a little chapter…

The Holy Innocents

Thank goodness I still live near my parents, because I do not like to cook and today is the day that we always have vanilla pudding with raspberries on top! This is the feast of the Holy Innocents, all those little boys under the age of two slaughtered under King Herod’s orders because he was afraid of…