Comments on: When in Rome

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:32:42 +0000

The cookies were perfect! Colin approved highly and helped to quickly make them vanish.

By: the Lady

the Lady — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:01:53 +0000

In fact, I bet the cookies would have tasted weird if you had made them to recipe. I used to work in antiquarian books, and we had this cookbook from the 1920s, and have you ever seen those recipes? They are weird. Anyhow, my boss made some of them, and they were really gross. I’m not sure people knew how to cook back then.

By: the Lady

the Lady — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:00:28 +0000

Sorry for the comment to follow, but… that sounds so… disgusting…

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:42:10 +0000

I’m just nosy as to how you ended up with the cookbook of someone unrelated to you… : ) or am I reading that into this? I love looking through old recipes like this – in fact I had my grandmother write out all of her “cures” etc for me at one point & I am so glad I did.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:46:47 +0000

Love this post. I’ll bet those cookies were delicious!

By: Seanna Lea

Seanna Lea — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:28:13 +0000

It sounds to me like it should have worked. My default cookie is butter, sugar, 2 eggs mixed with enough flour and leavening that it looks like cookie dough. I usually use a recipe, but I am finally at that point where I feel like an actual recipe isn’t truly needed.

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:15:06 +0000

So? Were they good? Will “we” be making any other recipies from the book?

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:42:06 +0000

I love how you just went ahead with the mystery recipe!! I hope they turned out great.

By: mick

mick — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:06:23 +0000

I love everything about this. “Zimmermanesque”: too funny.

By: Ivana

Ivana — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:32:32 +0000

Love the post!