Dreamy Dinners Two: More Culinary Lullabies

This week’s episode of Recipe for Sleep, a podcast where we read you to sleep from very old cookbooks, we dip back in to Fanny Merritt Farmer’s vivid recipes.  We’re still in the first section of  "A Book of Good Dinners for my Friend, or, What to Have for Dinner.” Tonight, we continue to read from the first section, family dinners. Like good stories, each menu has a beginning, middle, and an end. From Huntington Soup, to Mashed Sweet Potatoes served in their shells, to Cheese Salad, (the best kind of salad, in our humble opinion, to Orange Tartlets with Meringue.

Place your worries in their rightful cupboards, yesterday’s for what has already happened, and tomorrow’s cupboard for what’s going to happen tomorrow, and close them up. You’ve reached that sweet, quiet time of day where all you have to do is close your eyes and listen Erin Brindley read you old cookbooks.

 

Evan Mosher is our sound engineer

 

You can find the original text here: What to Have for Dinner

 

You’ll find Erin’s own recipes and stories here: Thank Salt