Old recipes, made usable again
Old-fashioned cottage cooking from the pages of the books that made it famous, written down properly. A moderate oven becomes a number. Butter the size of an egg becomes a weight. Every recipe carries the history that explains why it is made that way, and says how long it keeps.
Nothing left vague
Old cookbooks assume you already know things. Every measure here is converted, every oven temperature is a real number, and every method is written out in full.
The history is the reason
Fruit went into a cake weeks early because it had to keep. Puddings were steamed because ovens were unreliable. Once you know that, the recipe stops looking eccentric.
It says how long it keeps
At cool room temperature, refrigerated and frozen. Stated for every recipe, including the ones that should never go near a freezer.
From the kitchen
Free to read, free to print, and none of them ask for your email address.
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How to Make Candied Orange Peel and Lemon Peel
How to make candied orange peel and lemon peel at home, simmered slow and dried on…
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Old-Fashioned Christmas Fruitcake (Marilla’s Black Fruitcake)
A dark, dense old-fashioned Christmas fruitcake, built six weeks before the day and left alone to…
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Old-Fashioned Baked Egg Custard
Old-fashioned baked egg custard, set slowly in a water bath and dusted with nutmeg. When hens…
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How to Make Butter at Home
How to make butter at home in about ten minutes, from two cups of cream and…
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Homemade White Bread
Homemade white bread, from a farmhouse recipe baked once or twice a week for a household…
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Old-Fashioned Tea Biscuits
Old-fashioned tea biscuits, in the oven before the kettle sings, and light rather than heavy. There…
Printable sheets for the kitchen wall
How to read an old recipe, in numbers you can use. And for December, everything that goes in the tin except the food. Free, and printed to live on a door or in a drawer.
The cookbooks
The Green Gables Kitchen Companion
Forty-seven recipes across four seasons of a Prince Edward Island year. The everyday book: spring greens and tea biscuits, summer preserves, autumn apples, winter suppers.
Christmas at Green Gables
Forty-one recipes across eight sections, from the first cake of November to the New Year. Nothing in it repeats anything in the Companion.
Hello from the kitchen
This is a kitchen for old recipes, the ones written down before anyone was in a hurry. Most are close to unusable as they stand, so the work here is putting them back into a form you can cook from without guessing.