{"id":1963,"date":"2014-01-04T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T22:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2014-01-04T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T22:17:28","slug":"250-cookbooks-1989-best-recipes-yearbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: 1989 Best-Recipes Yearbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #50:\u00a01989 Best-Recipes Yearbook.<\/em> Better Homes and Gardens, Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa, 1989.<\/p>\n

\"1989<\/a>Admissions of a recovering recipe clipper . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

I bought this cookbook in 1989. Back then I loved to buy women’s magazines and pore over the recipes. But I could not just let the magazines go straight to the recycling bin, I held onto old issues until I first clipped recipes to try. Eventually it got done. Eventually<\/em> I read each clipped recipe and entered its information into a database. Eventually the cut up magazine went into the recycling bin. The clipped recipe went into a file folder. I still have these file folders and the database. That project is now finished.<\/p>\n

Tired of my compulsive recipe-clipping addiction, I vowed never again to buy a women’s magazine. That was in about the early 1990s. I have stayed true to my vow. But, as a leftover, I have this book of Better Homes and Gardens magazine<\/em> recipes.<\/p>\n

I will now recycle this book. In the whole dang book, not a single recipe is marked by me. Although I did have a post-it with a seafood dinner plan on it, tucked on a page with a recipe for shrimp in a tarragon, garlic, sun-dried tomato vinaigrette recipe. I now have a much better version of a shrimp vinaigrette in my repertoire, so I can let this go.<\/p>\n

The layout of this book glares at me like the glossy magazines I used to pore over. Promises of great food shown in fancy dining layouts with happy people. But the recipes in this book are mediocre. Today I saved only a couple recipes, one for a sweet-potato-chocolate swirled quick bread, and one for a seasoned ground meat mixture over home-cooked polenta.<\/p>\n

And what did I decide to cook from the pages of this soon-to-be-discarded cookbook? “Orange Streusel Muffins”. I’m always up for another muffin recipe. Muffins are part of my daily eating plan! And these are a tiny bit unusual, with a jammy surprise inside.\"Orange<\/a>The above version says to make 12 muffins. As I was filling the muffin cups, I felt that I needed to fill them a little fuller, so I only made 8 muffins. My new 12-muffin tin from King Arthur Flour is great – it does not require any grease or paper liners and does not complain when I leave a few of the muffin cups unfilled. Next time, I’ll add more marmalade, so I incorporated this, too, into my version, below.<\/p>\n

Orange Streusel Muffins<\/strong>
\nmakes 8 muffins<\/em><\/p>\n

Muffins<\/p>\n