Recipe for Sleep

This week’s episode of Recipe for Sleep, a podcast where we read you to sleep from very old cookbooks, we dip back in to Fanny Merritt Farmer’s vivid recipes.  We’re still in the first section of  "A Book of Good Dinners for my Friend, or, What to Have for Dinner.” Tonight, we continue to read from the first section, family dinners. Like good stories, each menu has a beginning, middle, and an end....

Welcome to this week's episode of "Recipe for Sleep," where Erin Brindley, a chef and storyteller, reads from timeless cookbooks to gently lull you into dreamland. Join our community at thanksalt.com for more recipes and stories. This episode takes us on a culinary journey through "What to Have for Dinner" by the legendary Fanny Merritt Farmer. This century-old cookbook is divided into three secti...

At Recipe for Sleep, we find old cookbooks to be a restful place to put our minds as we fall asleep. Not only do we get to peek into the kitchens of the past, but sometimes, like this week, we get to imagine a life completely different from our own. Where our greatest concern is how to create a menu for a fancy breakfast with our friends that does not bore, even without the help of a caterer or a...

Tonight, host Erin Brindley will read The Magic Way. The Magic Way was published by Magic Baking Powder and has a charming preamble before it gets to the recipes, lots of tips on baking cakes, and why Magic Baking Powder is the best baking powder. Really, sometimes you do choose a book by its cover, and this third edition, published in 1924, has the most darling cover, from the typeface to the fla...

Recipe for Sleep is a sleep podcast in which we read to you from very old cookbooks until you fall asleep.  In this episode, host Erin Brindley lulls you to sleep with the first section of The A. A. Cookbook by Miss A. Alden and Miss A. Adams, published in 1895. This tome contains 300 recipes contributed by “Very Good Cooks,” and each one reads like a little poem. Fall asleep imagining steaming gr...

In this episode, Host Erin Brindley is going to send you to sleep with dessert. Reading from the first section of 365 Desserts, published in 1900, you will drift to sleep to dream of tartlets, parfaits, pies and puddings. So many puddings. Chicago Pudding, Paradise Pudding, and Little Princess Pudding. But it was February’s Chocolate Soufflé recipe that inspired the recipe we’ve published at Thank...

High up on the shelf of the Recipe for Sleep library is One Hundred and One Sandwiches, and we’re going to read from it, softly and sweetly, until you fall asleep. From giving butter a “violet bath” to making your own peanut butter “with a little sherry or port,” the recipes in One Hundred and One Sandwiches are an oddly soothing set. Host Erin Brindley will read you 101 variations on the sandwich...

In this sweet and homey first episode, Erin Brindley will read you to sleep from 100 Good Apple Recipes, an expansive compendium of all things Pomological. Written in 1915. Published by the Agricultural College Extension Service of Ohio State University, you will fall asleep to cozy recipes for apple puddings, pies, cakes, sauces, and why you should use Ohio apples above all others. You can find t...