9/26/2006

Bonus: Fun with Coffee

This past Friday's cuuh included a booklet from 1956, Fun with Coffee:

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The picture on the cover is wonderfully '50s!
I love these kinds of booklets, they are very entertaining snippets of their time. This one is a real gem, the artwork is fabulous and it is chock full of information on brewing coffee and recipes featuring coffee.

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Last night we had guests over for dinner and I decided to make a pie using a recipe from the book. I chose the Coffee Macaroon Pie because I had all the necessary ingredients on hand, and of course it sounded like a tasty pie.


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This is the "illustration in the center spread":
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And there was even a picture of my reaction to the pie coming out of the oven:

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The pie was indeed tasty, although no one could taste the coffee. But it is a super coconut macaroon pie. Only half left in this picture:
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My pie turned out much darker on top than the one in the booklet, and it was done in only 40 minutes. A very scrumptious, rich pie--I was 100% happy with the results and will be making more from this recipe in the future. And probably trying other recipes from this booklet which I am thrilled to have found and added to my collection.

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