Thursday, May 25, 2006

Cooking from the Mitford Cookbook


We love the Mitford books here at the Schoolhouse! Clara gets the books on tape over and over at the library, and we even included a trip to Jan Karon's real-life town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, on a camping trip several years ago. One of the best things about the series are the frequent mention of food and what's cooking--and The Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader distills all of the best parts for the greedy reader (yes,that's me).

Now, this food is very, very Southern food. Lots of shortening, lots of butter. Lots of self-rising white flour, so you might not want to make these recipes everyday occurences. But oh, they are good!

Clara has adopted one has her own, and frequently makes us Cynthia's Heavenly Tea. I won't give the whole recipe away, in the interests of preserving Cynthia's secret recipe, but I will say that it calls for black tea, fresh mint, sugar, lemonade concentrate, apricot nectar, and almond extract. Even those who don't like sweetened tea (that's me too) will pronounce it heavenly (as long as they learn from my mistake and do not allow vanilla to be substituted for almond extract--yuck). Properly made, this tea will take you to heaven.

2 comments:

Kelli said...

Having read the Mitford series and enjoying it so much, I was thrilled to find out my library has the cookbook! I have to wait a few weeks for it to be returned (just got checked out) but I can't wait to read it. Thanks for recommending it!

Kelli

Rhonda in Chile said...

Did you try the Esther Bolick's Orange Marmalade cake? I 've always wondered about that......
R

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