COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074 - jo

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » May 14th, 2020, 2:59 pm

Volume 074 is FULL; please hold your selections for Vol. 075!

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 14th, 2020, 5:40 pm

Your reading were well read and Biscuits is PLOK Betty B

I wonder what a hot oven meant in 1913?

Rhode Island

1:03 This is now the capital of the state, and the largest city in New England except Boston. Some garbled words

Craig

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 14th, 2020, 6:12 pm

Thanks for the history of Crisco TriciaG

PLOK

No Crisco in Betty B’s article from 1913- Crisco marketed since 1911

Break open a hot biscuit in which Crisco has been used. You will note a sweet fragrance, which is most inviting. 1922

Can we still reuse Crisco forever?

Craig

BettyB · Post by **BettyB** » May 15th, 2020, 4:10 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf074_rhodeisland_johnson_bbs_128kb.mp3

Uploaded for spot check. Not sure what happened there in transmission...

For even more excitement check out MY solo on Crisco!!

Betty

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 15th, 2020, 4:20 pm

Thanks BettyB

PLOK

Crisco is popular today

Craig

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » May 15th, 2020, 4:26 pm

BettyB wrote: ↑May 15th, 2020, 4:10 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf074_rhodeisland_johnson_bbs_128kb.mp3

Uploaded for spot check. Not sure what happened there in transmission...

For even more excitement check out MY solo on Crisco!!

Betty

The Whys of Cooking
Janet McKenzie HILL (1852 - 1933)
https://librivox.org/the-whys-of-cooking-by-janet-mckenzie-hill/

An entertaining yet informative look at the history of Crisco, its place in the "modern" kitchen, basic recipes and how to set up your kitchen layout and types of meal service including "when you don't have a maid." - Summary by BettyB
Genre(s): Cooking

Language: English

Betty, I had no idea you'd recorded a whole Crisco cookbook?

Did you try any of the recipes???

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » May 15th, 2020, 4:42 pm

Betty and Tricia, maybe you two should start a group read of the 1896 Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook? it's available on Google books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Original_Boston_Cooking_school_Cook/OI4_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=boston+cooking+school+cookbook&printsec=frontcover. There are some wild wild recipes: Calf's Head a la Terrapin, Broiled or Roasted Plover, and Larded Grouse ( no Crisco yet in 1896).

BettyB · Post by **BettyB** » May 15th, 2020, 4:48 pm

I do quite a lot of baking and still have Crisco in the pantry but it is not used very often these days...

Betty

Post by **TriciaG** » May 15th, 2020, 5:38 pm

What's funny is that I have been cooking more with lard and butter the past few years. Going back to the real stuff - LOL!

Post by **TriciaG** » May 16th, 2020, 12:26 pm

I listened to the section on Crisco in your solo, Betty. It sounds like it came out of the same advertising department as my section here.

Post by **knotyouraveragejo** » May 16th, 2020, 4:29 pm

Congratulations! This collection is now in the LibriVox catalog and available for listeners to download. Please check the catalog page and let me know if any changes are needed:

https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-074-by-various/

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 16th, 2020, 5:52 pm

08 Lincoln Day Address Booker T. Washington Etext Larry Wilson
00:09:07 en links are wrong

Craig

Post by **knotyouraveragejo** » May 16th, 2020, 7:01 pm

Thanks Craig. I've fixed the text link for section 8. That is what you were referring to, correct? The rest of the links look OK to me.

soupy · Post by **soupy** » May 16th, 2020, 7:07 pm

I referring to the text link - I tested it after I put it in there

Craig

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » May 18th, 2020, 9:09 am

Volume 074 was a great collection of readings! As BC, I just want to say thank you to all who participated.

Also, I wanted to say to those readers, whose contributions weren't mentioned specifically in my summary for the catalog, I didn't forget you! With 21 selections, my blurb ran to three paragraphs, and it was too long to fit the page!

Here is the missing paragraph from the summary:

Praising human resiliency, William James recalls "the rapidity of the improvisation or order out of chaos" in Mental Effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; while Samuel Johnson takes a verbal swing at the rich and powerful who look "with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help." (Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1755). Tactless types who comment on gray hairs and brand eccentric people as "mad" are skewered in two essays by Anna Mowatt Richie. (Tactless People; Original People). Balancing these negatives is praise for accomplished individuals: James Wilson, Blind Biographer; Japanese writer Madame Yukio Ozaki; and pioneering chemist Agnes Pockels (Surface Tension); followed by a look at communal enterprise in the Salt Mines of Wieliczka.

Thanks, everyone!

Volume 075 is up and running here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=80057&p=1720169#p1720169