I remember that, as a day camp counselor, we used
to have our campers bring the ingredients for
that big boy thing, though we called it something
else, and we helped them get the food all packed
up and we put it onto the campfire to cook. It
was great, though too much onion for me. :)
Karen
At 08:51 AM 7/11/2020, you wrote:
I forgot about the Braille Cookbook. They used
to have a copy of it at the Texas School for the
Blind. It was made back in the 40s when the
goal of the agency was to help the blind person
become a homemaker so that others in the house
would not have to stay home and take care of
them. Teachers would spend long times in their
homes, I think they may have even stayed there
back then. These days, it's pretty much "stop
feeling sorry for yourself and get a job. But
if you can't manage your diabetes without being
able to cook it's your fault." I know this
because I was a teacher, and that's not how I
taught, smirk. I copied things out of that book
myself but I used an old Braille 'n Speak and
don't know where the files went. I remember a
recipe called Big Boy. You got out some foil,
made a patty, cut up some onion, potato, carrot,
and whatever vegetables, and put them around the
burger on the foil. You made a packet out of
the foil, being careful that it couldn't leak
out, and baked it for I don't remember how
long. I made it and it was good, though a bit
greasy. Not exactly foodie fare, but that was
over 50 years ago. And there were different
nutritional standards and they didn't have all
these small electrical devices then that we have
now. I don't know where to get a copy. I
wonder if NLS would be interested in dredging up
and reissuing some of these old Braille
cookbooks if there was enough demand. It's
really our history. -----Original Message-----
From: Cookinginthedark
<[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 9:34 AM To:
[email protected] Cc: Lora Leggett
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] More
books written for the blind 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
Mail for Windows 10 From: meward1954--- via
Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020
10:21 AM To: [email protected] Cc:
[email protected] 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:
Cookinginthedark
<[email protected]> On
Behalf Of gail johnson via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 7:35 PM To:
[email protected] Cc: gail johnson
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] More
books written for the blind What a hoot. Milk
shake sounds good.
_______________________________________________
Cookinginthedark mailing list
[email protected]
http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
_______________________________________________
Cookinginthedark mailing list
[email protected]
http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
_______________________________________________
Cookinginthedark mailing list
[email protected]
http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
_______________________________________________
Cookinginthedark mailing list
[email protected]
http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
_______________________________________________
Cookinginthedark mailing list
[email protected]
http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
