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Breakfast at Caterpickles II
Rainy winter mornings when The Four-Year-Old wakes up early and there are guests in the house simply scream for complicated breakfasts. This is especially fun when The Four-Year-Old is in a measuring...
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“What is cream of tartar?”
Chemical structure of cream of tartar. (Image: Jü) Said the Four-Year-Old, on hearing that we needed cream of tartar to make snickerdoodles last week. Mommyo duly made a note to Ask the iPhone sometime...
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“How do they make cooking oil?”
Early Roman oil press (Image by Eitan f via Wikipedia) Fun in the kitchen week continues with a look at another ingredient in homemade play-doh: Cooking oil. There are lots and lots of kinds of oils in...
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“How did they make old-timey ketchup?”: A Caterpickles Investigative Report
The 1905 New England Cook Book by Marion Harland, Miss M. Parloa, Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, Thomas J. Murray, and Many Other Authorities One of the reasons I love eating at local diners is that they tend to...
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“How did they make old-timey ketchup?” A Caterpickles Investigative Report,...
If you’re just joining us, recently The Five-Year-Old asked me how Americans used to make ketchup in those bleak days before Henry Heinz brought his ketchup to market in 1876. Yesterday we found and...
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The Five-Year-Old cooks breakfast
In other news, look what I found on my porch on Monday. Most romantic gift ever? (Photo: Shala Howell) Last weekend, Daddyo decided to teach The Five-Year-Old how to cook scrambled eggs. And that meant...
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Classic Caterpickles: Breakfast at Caterpickles II
While writing my post for Wordless Wednesday, I came across this classic Caterpickle from two years ago. The Four-Year-Old is just so darn funny, I couldn’t resist including it in this week’s line-up....
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