This Week: Sloppy Sandwiches, Cherry Season, and Antique Cookbooks!
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Oooh! Sloppy Joes! Clafouti! America Eats and Bugles and Curries! and Cross Creek Cookery! and Mrs. Beeton!
I loved my mom’s sloppy joes - still do, but it uses a can of tomato soup. I don’t want that much corn syrup so I substitute tomato sauce and some spices with a bit of sugar. What I like about her recipe is that it is tangy and savory with no mustard. Kids like it because there are no veggie chunks.
This post has me craving sloppy joes-they will be on the menu this week! King Arthur flour has my favorite bun recipe-perfect with sloppy joes.
I haven’t seen many antique cookbooks, but the older I get, the more I love old church cookbooks. My mom’s old cookbooks have her notes in them and I recognize many of the names from my childhood. My grandmothers’ old church cookbooks are a glimpse into a different time. Fun for me to try recipes they submitted.
We make poor man sloppy joe’s. Using canned Manwich or a homemade recipe, we always add a can of pork and beans to the mix to stretch it a bit further. It’s cheaper than adding more meat. That’s what my mom used to do and now my kids eat it. Definitely not fancy but there it is!