#aunt maud's recipe book

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LM Montgomery also published a cookbook which I am buying today and I am publicly stating that (assuming ingredients are easily accessible) I am going to try every recipe

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so what are your favorite episodes of the maudcast so far?? I really enjoyed the one with andrea mckenzie (if I am thinking of the right one lol)

YES, I loved that one too! This is where I first heard of "Aunt Maud's Recipe Book," but the second place was your tumblr, just last night! If I had any talents in the kitchen, I would get a copy, too! I'm so excited you're posting about it! You bless the tumblr Maudience with so much! (Is there a Liniment Cake recipe?) My personal favourite so far has been S2EP3, because it educated me a lot on Maud's time in SK, and her encounters with the First Nations population there. It's a 'difficult conversation' for those participating, but very interesting to me, of course. It also brings together Anne Shirley and Anne Frank. It's a longer one... an hour, I think. Jumps around a bit. Have you listened to this one yet? I should probably confess that I haven't made my way through the entire catalogue just yet. I’ve been picking and choosing in a grossly unorganised way. Some of the episodes, forgive me for this, I thought were very… skippable (I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY, I’m so sorry)! 😅 I'm endlessly grateful that the Maudcast exists at all, but I think I would have done well to remember that it is the podcast of the Institute, so yes naturally, there are times they will want to focus more on their scholars and visiting professionals, instead of Maud's life or work exclusively (this especially of the earlier episodes).

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all the questions :)

1. selfieI post enough2. what would you name your future kids?I have a lot of names I love…sophia + Sadie are my favorites 💞 3. do you miss anyone?Yea, one or two people. One is my dad4. what are you looking forward to?My anniversary with my bf :)5. is there anyone who can always make you smile?My dogs 💞 6. is it hard for you to get over someone?No!! Damn near the second I’m away from someone I can’t even comprehend their existence anymore so…no. that’s also why it’s easy for me to not miss people I’ve been away from for a long time 7. what was your life like last year? When it started I was doing an independent sort of thing where I thought I was finding who I was but I was just influenced by things and music and people and I was actually completely wrong about the person I thought I wanted to be. She wasn’t that great. At the very end of the year I was taking a serious stand for myself. I think I grew a lot 8. have you ever cried because you were so annoyed?Yes this is usually why I cry. Probably like 75% of the time it’s cause I’m stressing9. who did you last see in person?I’m with Emilio and Antonio rn!10. are you good at hiding your feelings?So good. Scary good. I don’t do it a lot, almost never anymore, but I know that I can. Its no good in my experience11. are you listening to music right now?No. But we are video chatting anyone and everyone who is active on fb rn. 10/10 12. what is something you want right now?I want a cup noodles but without the wait.13. how do you feel right now?Very happy and very comfy. I just washed alL out sheets and blankets and they’re super soft and smell delicious14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you?Earlier when my husband got home from work he gave me and Capone a big hug 💟 15. personality descriptionOf myself? It’s not my place to say 16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn’t?Yes, a million billion times, even right this second, 17. opinion on insecurities.Eh. They’re never as bad as you think. I guess that’s a given18. do you miss how things were a year ago?Eh, sorta! It was getting warm and I was smoking hella bud with Emilio just like now, and I miss how that felt. I miss how it felt being his friend even though I never wanna be just his friend again. I don’t miss my old job at all. I guess mostly what I miss was how I was on the road a lot last May and doing my own thing usually all by myself. I didn’t even see my friends that much last May, it was a weird month. I wouldn’t wanna go back, but I’d rather be in last May than last winter or fall 2015.19. have you ever been to New York?Yes and I loved every second of it.20. what is your favourite song at the moment?Maybe love by Kendrick Lamar or redbone. Loyalty + pride are also good ass songs. 21. age and birthday?20, born March 2422. description of crush.Handsome as hell, gold in his eyes and his hair when the sun shines on him23. fear(s)Puppets on strings and going insane. I answered this the other day so it’s been on the mind a little bit 24. height5'425. role modelNot sure. My dad’s smart26. idol(s)Helen Stephenson 27. things i hateLies, deceit, racism, sexism, backstabbing, 28. i’ll love you if…You have good intentions and good jokes29. favourite film(s)The boondock saints is one of my favorites. I also love Harold and Maude30. favourite tv show(s)The office, scrubs, unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 rock, Malcolm in the middle, my name is Earl, parks and rec, that 70s show, 31. 3 random facts1.Cabbage is a descendant of the mustard plant.2. Kale is a descendant of the mustard plant.3. Multiple plants are descendants of the mustard plant.32. are your friends mainly girls or guys?I guess guys33. something you want to learnMore about plant identification. I wanna be able to go into the forest and know by name what I’m looking at. I learned a few this spring walking around rum village 🌿34. most embarrassing momentMy dad finding my journals a bunch of years back. Even worse was when my family went through my room while I was locked up in the hospital. My grandma and aunt use to take me to ponderosa for breakfast to give me the sex talk once a year it sucked35. favourite subjectScience!! Earth science in particular. I did good in geometry so I like that by default but I wouldn’t wanna do math rn. I’d totally do some science shit rn though36. 3 dreams you want to fulfill?See America, see the world, and marry my baby daddy37. favourite actor/actressI don’t have any in particular38. favourite comedian(s)Man, me and Emilio watched a bunch of standup this spring. I love john mulaney. I wish I could give you more names but I’m forgetful39. favourite sport(s)I love playing baseball but I like watching hockey and football40. favourite memoryJeez, who knows. Any family vacation I went on was always a high point. On one trip we went to sleeping Bear dunes in Michigan and I climbed up the biggest hill realllllly fast and everyone was impressed. That was cool41. relationship statusMarried and chillin42. favourite book(s)Catcher in the rye, the great Gatsby, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, journey to the center of the earth, 20000 leagues under the sea!!! I love that last one so much43. favourite song ever100% by sonic youth and a very certain acoustic performance of wasted and ready by Ben kweller 💐44. age you get mistaken forProbably anything younger than 2045. how you found out about your idolGoth girl message boards 46. what my last text message says“Sorry we did this”47. turn onsDon’t wanna make this blog nsfw but I’m bout to get some d later so that’s kind of working for me 48. turn offsPpl being mean to me49. where i want to be right nowHere is fine 50. favourite picture of your idolNow I regret making Helen my idol she probably thinks I’m so lame 51. starsignAries sun that’s all y'all need to know52. something i’m talented atKissing emilio53. 5 things that make me happyCup noodles, stuffed animals, new makeup, making money, being out In nature 54. something thats worrying me at the momentI’m about to start a new job it’s a little nerve-racking you know 55. tumblr friendsI don’t know if we are friends (I want to be) but I have some really cool mutuals whom I love to watch flourish 🌸 like @angel-macabre @corporateaccount @lushdeath @312413 @heartshapedspiderweb @cheapexorcisms @sediao and others I know I am forgetting this doesn’t mean I love and respect you any less it just means I’m turnt up bitch and tired as hell56. favourite food(s)“The soup”. Its Emilio’s dad’s recipe and I’m confident that I’ve mastered it.57. favourite animal(s)Weasels and dogs58. description of my best friendHandsome as hell, gold in his hair and his eyes when the sun shines on him59. why i joined tumblrI can’t even remember!! It was so long ago…this blog isn’t even my first blog. I wish I could remember why I started it and what I first posted. My first blog is long, long gone. Wish I could find it! Fun fact: my first urls were auricy, fiftene, (and then sixtene on my birthday), boysister, zodomy, and a bunch of others, but I’ve been bugclub for like 4 years now

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Sunday, July 30, 2017. MY BIRTHDAY! Anne of Green Gables, Round 2

It’s the morning of my birthday, and….the cops pull us over. Turns out we’re going 80 kilometers per hour in a 50 kph zone. Now, 50 kph is equivalent to about 30 miles per hour, which is DAMN slow for LA drivers, especially on a wide, open road with very few cars. Kudos to my friend who is driving for staying so calm. Thankfully, the cop is super nice. “I’ve never seen a California driver’s license before,” I hear him say. Then he lets us go with a warning. If you find yourself driving on PEI, make note that the speed limits change often. Every time you enter a city, you should slow down, even if the road seems like a highway.

After this setback, we continue onto Kensington and New London, a bit more of a drive from Charlottetown, about 45 minutes to an hour. Our first stop: The Anne of Green Gables Museum at Silver Bush.

Here, we tour Lucy Maud’s uncle and aunt’s home, where she was married. There are several book cases with glass windows. One of them is the same book case that inspired Lucy Maud to write about Anne’s imaginary friend, Katie Maurice, who was actually her reflection in the glass.

Outside the house, there is the lake that inspired the Lake of Shining Waters. We see the very sight Lucy Maud gazed at outside the window and that she wrote about in her novels.

We leave the museum and continue onto our next destination. Lucy Maud’s birthplace in New London. It’s a beautiful house, and I buy a copy of the republished Anne of Green Gables with its original cover.

Across the street, we eat lunch at Blue Winds Tea Room, a quaint restaurant converted from a historical house. The décor is so cute, and it has a touch of Asian influence as the owner is a Japanese lady who relocated to PEI because of her love for Anne.

I order a tuna salad sandwich. It comes with potato salad and fruit. I also get tea and New Moon Pudding, a dessert made from Lucy Maud’s own recipe.

After lunch, we drive to the Keir Museum, which used to be a church. LM Montgomery and her family dedicated a communion table here.

We also go to Lower Bedeque to see the school where she taught. It’s a bit out of the way, but I’m determined to see as many Lucy Maud sites as I can. Thankfully, my friend is willing to drive.

We return to Charlottetown to rest and wash up as we have more planned for the night.

For dinner, we dine at Gahan House. I order a Lobster Roll with a side Beet Salad, and my friend gets Seafood Pasta. Everything here is absolutely scrumptious, my favorite place so far. The waitress gives me a brownie and ice cream on the house for my birthday.

After dinner, we head to The Guild, just a few blocks away. We have tickets to see a musical. Anne and Gilbert, The Musical.

It’s a small scale production, but the actors are still incredible and the show is enjoyable. The perfect way to end my birthday.

The PEI Adventures, Part 3 Sunday, July 30, 2017. MY BIRTHDAY! Anne of Green Gables, Round 2 It’s the morning of my birthday, and….the cops pull us over.

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Adventures in Maud's Recipes

Swiss Potato Soup

The Recipe

After starting off strong with something sweet, I decided to steer this venture to something savory! I live in a corner of the world where the 100 degree days are just coming to an end (an 80 degree day here is thought as "having a chill in the air") and so I landed on soup, which to me is the perfect fall recipe as the weather turns. And hoo boy, soup did I get. Maud's Swiss potato soup has (you guessed it) potatoes, a turnip (I have literally never cooked with a turnip and so was bravely venturing into unknown lands), onions, milk, flour, butter, salt and pepper! Basically, a smooth creamy soup that you would likely find topped with cheese and bacon bits at a restaurant. There were some vague(ish) ingredients I had to stumble through as an amateur cook (computer: what is considered a medium potato?), but by far the most difficult part was the potatoes and the number of pots/things required. I had a saucepan for milk; I had a saucepan for vegetables and water; I had a saucepan for MORE water; I had a sieve for straining; I had a blender for blending; and all of the ingredients had to be hopped from one pot to the next in a feverish switch. I paled at the prospect of fitting what seemed to be gallons of hot soup in my poor cheap plastic blender, but nothing exploded (or worse, melted), although I did waste some brain cells coaxing my blender as if it were a jittery animal.

The Results

I should have guessed because in my experience this happens with all soups, but I'll be eating potato soup for approximately the next 50 years. This made a reasonable-yet-somehow-still-ENORMOUS-for-one-person amount of soup. Behold, a very ugly photo of the soup that looks somewhat like a gigantic milk tea:

The Reviews

It tasted good and creamy! At first it was frightening because I took a sip and it tasted exactly like a spoonful of milk that had a vague potato flavor, almost like la croix potato soup, but then it thickened (whew! much like Barney's character arc). It definitely is the perfect fall recipe and I think it could go with virtually anything, much like potatoes themselves. Clifford Roommate was unavailable for comment on this one unfortunately, so ya'll will have to take my word for it.

Would I make it again? Thousand yard stare- the amount of time this took...the potato peeling...the turnip preparing...the chopping...the boiling...the sieving...the blending...drums, drums, in the deep...they are coming...okay, no I wouldn't. Too time consuming. I could see myself doing it once a year, but unless you really love cooking, this recipe does take a few hours and you have to be THERE the entire time hovering and stirring things feverishly (however, if you were a more experienced cook it probably would go more smoothly). How would I rate it? Well, if a zero is one of Davy's never-ending rambling stories, and a ten is Miss Cornelia's single-sentence-that-contains-worlds on marrying fascinating and wicked men, I'd give this one of Emily's evenings with Andrew.

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"I have never been one of those who consider a liking for a tasty bite something to be rather ashamed of. Frankly, I'm very fond of a good table. I keep one myself and I like to sit down to one. It is an old Montgomery tradition and when I hear anyone say 'I don't care what I have to eat, I conclude that individual is either lying or is a pale anaemic creature of very little use and no charm or force in the world. And I have mostly found that this conclusion was borne out by the facts of the case."

-L.M. Montgomery

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Adventures in Maud's Recipes

Mrs. Fisher's Cornbread

The Recipe

I've had a hankering for cornbread lately so I decided to tee this up on the docket after the potato soup. The first thing I noticed about this recipe was that it was someone else's - apparently, this is Maud's cousin's college's staff member's recipe - quite the chain to get through! Although I felt a little bit cheated at it really being someone else's, I gamely forged forward. This cornbread has all the ingredients of cornbread you'd think - corn, for one (gasp) - but I noticed it also included stiffly beaten egg whites, an intriguing addition. Other than that, it seemed a typical cornbread recipe to my untrained, naive eyes.

The Results

About half-way through the baking time, the house began to smell heavenly. Ah, I thought, ah, don't get your hopes up. Just because it smells like something from the garden of eden doesn't mean that this will turn out well. However, the timer rang, and I pulled this glorious looking concoction out of the oven - things were looking promising!

The Reviews

so, here's the thing. I admit I'm predisposed to like cornbread. I've eaten plenty of dry cornbread in my day and enjoyed it. I'm perhaps a little biased. But I do not exaggerate in any way, shape, or form when I say: this is, quite literally, the best cornbread I have ever eaten. I took a bite and angel choirs sang. Fireworks lit up the sky. A heavenly portal opened up and shone a light down directly onto the cornbread. It more than lived up to its mouthwatering smell - it surpassed it - it made the smell seem pathetic, a pale promise of what this cornbread actually is. I would marry this cornbread. I would leave it all behind for this cornbread - this, this is my blue castle. All of a sudden I understand why the recipe had gone through a Penhallow level of networked family tree - Maud must have chased it down after trying it once. She would have been a fool not to. You think I'm exaggerating? You think I have cornbread blinders on my eyes? Behold, a gallery of roommate reviews:

"Firm but also light - filling and very satisfying. I really liked it. Also sweet! I don't usually like corn by itself, but I liked this. Cornbread tastes like what corn should taste like." - Clifford Roommate "It is the best cornbread I have ever had." - Wizard Hat Roommate

Would I make it again? Spoiler alert - I ALREADY HAVE. It has been a week since I tried it and I have made it twice. What would I rate it? well, if a zero is finding out the diamonds aren't actually purple, and a ten is receiving a puffed sleeved dress as a surprise, this is puffed sleeves, an october month, and a kindred spirit all wrapped in one.

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Heartbreak: Woman has Publicly Sworn to Cook Every Recipe in LM Montgomery's Cookbook Only for the First One to Have Celery

[Celery deserves to be thrown into the fires of mount doom]