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 <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf Of Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 9:34 AM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Lora Leggett <kc8...@comcast.net> 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: 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: Cookinginthedark <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. 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