26 May 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments
Prudence Penny’s Fruit Leather Recipe To Cure “A Pain In The Pocketbook”
This week’s edible flashback from the Prudence Penny recipe series, just in time for summer: Fruit “paste” [a.k.a. fruit leather] using leftover fruit pulp. The recipe was published in September of 1929, literally weeks before Black Tuesday. Fruit forward? Perhaps, though Ms. Penny was always pennywise. She begins by telling us, dear reader, that “If you have suffered a pain in the pocketbook at the loss of so much pulp in making jelly, here is a suggestion: Instead of letting the pulp go to waste, make it go to paste.” Ah, the circa 1929 pun. Turn the page for more.
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