Daily Blague

Can't say why I came across my maternal grandmother's old cookbook - or one of them - the other day. It's falling apart now. I have never explored the recipes, because the first one that I read was such a hoot that I never got any further. Entitled Cook Book: Compiled and Published by the Epworth League of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Duluth, Minnesota, and published in 1913, it's a collection of worshipers' "Tried and True" recipes. Above, a drawing of the second building erected by the congregation, in 1895; it seems to have burned down in 1924.

One Clinton Oblinger was either the perpetrator or the victim of a joke; his contribution may be found below the jump. It calls for techniques that Julia never taught us.