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: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org 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 ><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 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: 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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