Tuesday 18 November 2008

found.meals@appealing.menus.ca

Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter supplies recipes and anecdotes from 1920s Paris in Found Meals of the Lost Generation. On the menu for the Salon of Gertrude Stein are


Lapsang Souchong Tea
Nameless Cookies
Visitandines
Black Current Liqueur


The Visitandines recipe is derived from The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. They are describe thus by Ms. Rodriguez-Hunter:

Visitandines were first prepared for the Stein/Toklas household by an early femme de ménage, Léonie, who claimed the name derived from the cakes' original inventors, the Visitation order of nuns.


They are glazed with apricot jam.

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