Old Fall Recipes
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A friend just sent me this wonderful old American cookbook by Miss Leslie - first published in 1854 - and it's such a wonderful reminder of a simpler time that I've spent the past day flipping through the pages.
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Among the receipts for transparent puddings, canvasback ducks, oyster pies and fricasseed sweetbreads, I came upon these seasonal soups. Don't you wish you had a store room?
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I've also been going through old issues of the Los Angeles Times Food section, and came upon this fascinating recipe we published in the fall of 1991.
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it so delicious that we decided to reprint it.
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