The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook
“You’ve got to keep your wits about you in cooking and not stop in the middle of things to let your thoughts rove all over creation.”
–Anne of Green Gables, XIII
I went to a tent sale today for Children’s Orchard, which is a store that sells used children’s clothing, toys, accessories, etc. They were doing scratch off tickets and I won my choice of any book under $3.99, which is how I came home with this:
To tell you the truth, I have never actually read any one of the Anne of Green Gables book series. I am very fond, though, of unique cookbooks, and this particular cookbook is written by L.M. Montgomery’s granddaughter. This book will fit in nicely with my Narnia Cookbook, Star Wars Cookbook, Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook, and The Ruby Slippers Cookbook.
So let’s see what Anne has up her sleeve:
Cowcumber Boats. This caught my eye immediately because of the “cow”. This recipe doesn’t actually use cow, but cucumber. It also doesn’t take much tweaking to be The Boy-friendly. And looks like a nice way to get the kids eating fish for a change. Fish. My last battlefront.
Saucy Chicken. You saucy chicken, you. I’ll make this for the name alone.
Diana Barry’s Favorite Raspberry Cordial. I totally expected to read a recipe for an alcoholic beverage in a kids cookbook, but to my simultaneous disappointment and parental approval, it’s just sugar and fruit.
Poetical Egg Salad Sandwiches. More than your average Humpty Dumpty variety, this is Ode to a Grecian Egg.
Miss Ellen’s Pound Cake. Guaranteed to harden the arteries of all ages.
Anne’s Liniment Cake. When I read this title, I immediately thought – what? Muscle massage? After reading the description, it seems Anne made a similar mistake in one of the books. All I can say is, any girl who accidentally cooks with anodyne liniment is a friend of mine. A virtual high five to whoever tells me which one of the series contains this escapade (my money is on Beck).
On my way to the library…
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I am an Anne of Green Gables nut. Marilla let into Anne when she tasted the cake. It was mostly her fault though because she had damaged the liniment bottle and poured what was left into an old vanilla bottle…so you see it was really Anne’s fault. But you’d think she would have smelled the stuff. Anyway, it’s in the original Anne of Green Gabels book, but I don’t think I saw this scene in the movie………..
I meant to say it really was NOT Anne’s fault,,,I reall should proof read once or five times before I hit post……….
Oh, and the mice with Anne. Loved her. Never explored the cookbooks.
I DESPERATELY love that cookbook and have never found a copy! I just gave in and bought one used off Amazon - it should be here soon.
The liniment scene is in the first Anne novel, as Calista said. I love the first Anne novel and not so much the later ones, which makes me not that much of an Anne Fanatic, eh?