I hated onions as a child. But when I moved out on my own, finally, and had to cook, I became the biggest onion fan on the planet.
Anybody ever tried roasting onions? I have ben enjoying the Roasted Vegetable Cookbook, though it's not necessarily a book for us blind people. The roasted vegetable / BR17845 Chesman, Andrea. 2 volumes. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Lora Leggett <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind Oh, I love onions, woo hoo! That must have been fun, and of course, if you are making it at home, you could cut down or leave them out. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Karen Delzer via Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Karen Delzer Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind 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 I’ll tell you >about one I would like to find. Some time around the early 1990’s 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. It’s old of course, but I like it. >The other 2 volumes are the first 2 volumes of a book called the New >Evelyn Lee’s 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. >I’d 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 Lee’s 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. 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