This post contains affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy here. Vintage cookbooks will always have a place in my kitchen. (They may have even taken over, actually…) On my 9th birthday, I received my first “very own” cookbook and there began my love of cooking and cookbooks. Snickerdoodles, pumpkin custard, and hot milk sponge cakes were…
The specifics are a little different in 2023, but on the whole, things haven’t changed a lot in the past 100+ years. We still prefer lighter, fresher meals cooked outside in hot weather. There’s an abundance of garden produce that we need to preserve. End-of-summer sales are a good time to stock up and in…
This summer I’m comparing Charles Dudley Warner’s gardening journal, My Summer in a Garden, to my own garden. I’m finding that I can relate to many of his perspectives, and as he describes the second week of his garden’s progress, his thoughts are centered on weeds. Hardly is the garden planted, when he must begin…
The last frost date is upon us here in southern Wisconsin, and I have officially begun another garden season. Every spring I can’t wait to get out in the garden and by August, I’m wondering what I did with all that spare time I had all winter. A few months ago, I discovered a free…
