The receipts which I have assembled in this small book are ones which I use regularly in my own home. I think that, at any rate, half of the receipts could not be met with elsewhere, as I have collected them for many years, from many people, in many lands.They are indeed as strange mix of recipes culled from a lifetime of thinking about food. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English posits that food writing or cookbooks, as one would think about them today, began in the 1920's. During this period, society ladies began to organize their recipes into collections and they often wrote columns in local papers. Cambridge is quick to point out that virtually none of these women could actually cook. This was a trend that continued through the 1930's when Food for the Greedy was originally published.
The very first recipe in the book is for a dish called Potassium Soup. This hardly sounds like a dish served for some greedy foodie. It also calls for canned okra. I can honestly say that I have never seen canned okra, but, in my defense, I rarely spend time in the canned vegetable isle of the grocery. I was so interested that I checked to see if there was still such a thing as canned okra. To my surprise, there is indeed canned okra and now I feel obliged to buy a can for my own edification, but I digress...
Potassium Soup
Cut up small: 3 carrots, 2 onions, 1 large head of celery, 1/2 can of okra and one kernel of garlic, and place them in 2 quarts of water. Boil for 17 minutes. Then add one handful of parsley and one green pepper, and boil again for 7 minutes. Add a large tin of tomatoes and boil up again. Strain through a sieve to the desired thickness.
American receipt, said to ensure longevity!
The "Okra" can be bought at good class grocers who stock less well known canned goods.
Well, it turns out that "Okra" can be bought at good class grocers who stock less well known canned goods or at Amazon. Clearly, with the help of Amazon we can all be greedy!SEE VIDEO TUTORIAL >>
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