there certainly was an Evelyn Lee braille
cookbook, and it had three volumes.
Unfortunately, it is out in our shed, as we now
live in a home that is too small for a bookshelf.
Can you imagine? Sooo frustrating! Anyway, some
of the recipes are good. But there is a tip in
there I think is just nuts! Well, many may be,
but this one, if you have ants, put your sugar
bowl on a paper plate and sprinkle ant powder
onto the plate so the ants won't get into the
sugar. Well, ants literally send me screaming, so
I can't deal. But, really??? Put ant poison onto
a paper plate that you will touch as you get into
the sugar bowl? Um, I don't think so!
Karen
At 07:36 AM 7/11/2020, you wrote:
Iâll tell you about one I would like to find.
Some time around the early 1990âs I think it
was, a gentleman came to my house and said he
was a retired water man and that he remembered
seeing me when he came to read the water
meter. He said he and his wife were moving and
that his sister had passed away and he had some
braille cookbooks. Well, I got pretty excited of
course. One of them was the 1948 book called
The Braille Cookbook. Itâs old of course, but
I like it. The other 2 volumes are the first 2
volumes of a book called the New Evelyn Leeâs
Cookbook. It really has 3 volumes because the
contents of Volumes 2 and 3 are in Volume 1. But
there was no Volume 3. I think the book came
out in 1963. If anyone would happen to have it,
I would love to get a copy so I could copy it.
Iâd just transcribe it into my computer and
just give it back. Maybe some library somewhere
has it. I asked about it through my library and
no one knows anything about it. I was going
through a collection of recipes I got ahold of
from a shared folder a few years ago, and I got
Evelyn Leeâs Fried Chicken. It does sound
good, but wherever they got that recipe, there
must be her braille book. I would appreciate
any help in at least borrowing a copy of that
Volume 3. Lora and Leader Dog Firefly Sent from
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Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020
10:21 AM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc:
meward1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CnD] More
books written for the blind There was also
Cooking with Feeling by Deborah DeBord. This is
at National Braille Press, if they still have
it. The publication date is 1997, so it is a
bit more up to date, though far from
recent. There are five soft-cover Braille
volumes. The book is actually a combination of
two different books, a three-part series called
Cooking with Feeling Recipes and a two-part one
called Cooking with Feeling
Techniques. Techniques are well-described. I
believe she also had a bread machine book. I
don't know if there are accessible bread
machines now. I don't have one because I think
that a machine would take all the fun out of
making bread. What would be the point, if I
couldn't knead out all my frustrations? There
is another Braille Book on BARD, A leaf from our
table / BRA10152 Porter, Marie; Catholic Guild.
2 volumes. A production of Catholic Guild. This
book was put together by a group of blind
women. I believe that these women all cooked
and shared these recipes at meetings. They had
several other books back in the 1970s. The book
on making Bread, which was just called, Bread,
is the one I used as a primer for my own
learning how to make bread. They also had a
salad and dessert book. Maybe there were others
as well, but the only one I had was the one on
bread. So many of the cookbooks I have seen by
blind people's groups were rather obviously
copied from somewhere else. I've seen some
highly visual descriptions even in Cooking in
the Dark cookbooks, though recipes I know are
Dale's are very blind-friendly. So just because
it was put out by an ACB or NFB affiliate
doesn't mean that all the recipes have been
test-driven by a real blind person. Somebody
asks around for recipes and people just copy
them out. They may or may not have cooked them,
but they haven't necessarily adapted the
instructions. I haven't seen any audio books on
BARD written specifically for blind
cooks. -----Original Message----- From:
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<cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On
Behalf Of gail johnson via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 7:35 PM To:
cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: gail johnson
<gailj...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CnD] More
books written for the blind What a hoot. Milk
shake sounds good.
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