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Can someone help me find a book?
Aug. 9th, 2022 07:52 amIt's from sometime after the late 1960s. I don't think it could have been published much later than 1986, and probably wasn't published much after the mid-70s but it's been so damn long since I saw it that I can't be sure.
It was a cookbook. It was very definitely candy recipes; it may have been candy and dessert recipes, but it most definitely had a focus on candy recipes. I found it in my local library in northern New Jersey at the time, and I remember there being two outstanding things about it. One, that Vincent Price wrote the foreword- I don't think he wrote the whole book, but I'm positive he at least contributed the foreword. And two, that one of the recipes in the book was for Turkish Delight. I borrowed the book from the library specifically because I'd found that recipe and I wanted to know what the hell got Edmund Pevensie so hot and bothered that he had to turn his whole family over to the White Witch. Turned out it was basically equivalent to chocolate-covered jelly rings with orange or rose-flavored jelly in the middle.
(I was later reminded gently that Edmund was operating under wartime privations and years of rationing and would probably have also turned his family over for a promise of all the hot chocolate he could drink or as much ham and eggs as his little heart desired.)
I do not recall the book having a photography section, but given that this kind of thing can vary from edition to edition, the presence of a small photography section does not necessarily mean it is a different book.
The book was around an inch thick, and was... probably about five or six inches wide. Given the amount of time that has elapsed since I last saw it, I cannot say that my memory of its size is anything like accurate.
Does this ring any bells? Thank you in advance.
It was a cookbook. It was very definitely candy recipes; it may have been candy and dessert recipes, but it most definitely had a focus on candy recipes. I found it in my local library in northern New Jersey at the time, and I remember there being two outstanding things about it. One, that Vincent Price wrote the foreword- I don't think he wrote the whole book, but I'm positive he at least contributed the foreword. And two, that one of the recipes in the book was for Turkish Delight. I borrowed the book from the library specifically because I'd found that recipe and I wanted to know what the hell got Edmund Pevensie so hot and bothered that he had to turn his whole family over to the White Witch. Turned out it was basically equivalent to chocolate-covered jelly rings with orange or rose-flavored jelly in the middle.
(I was later reminded gently that Edmund was operating under wartime privations and years of rationing and would probably have also turned his family over for a promise of all the hot chocolate he could drink or as much ham and eggs as his little heart desired.)
I do not recall the book having a photography section, but given that this kind of thing can vary from edition to edition, the presence of a small photography section does not necessarily mean it is a different book.
The book was around an inch thick, and was... probably about five or six inches wide. Given the amount of time that has elapsed since I last saw it, I cannot say that my memory of its size is anything like accurate.
Does this ring any bells? Thank you in advance.
