{"id":8537,"date":"2020-02-05T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:22:08","slug":"from-old-cookbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/from-old-cookbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"From old cookbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"589\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"8529\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/20190730_211819\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1491,1519\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G935V&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1564521445&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20190730_211819\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-393x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-589x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-589x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-589x600.jpg 589w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-393x400.jpg 393w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819-141x144.jpg 141w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190730_211819.jpg 1491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My imagination fails me; I have no idea if this is genius or diabolical.  I have not tried it myself.  Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My imagination fails me; I have no idea if this is genius or diabolical. I have not tried it myself. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8466,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/11\/30\/adventures-in-cookbooks\/","url_meta":{"origin":8537,"position":0},"title":"Adventures in cookbooks","author":"leems","date":"November 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I am one of many people who have fallen into the sometimes colorful and sometimes frightening world of vintage cookbooks. I have purchased lots of these 'pamphlets' online and spent hours pouring through them. Sometimes I find something novel that I want to try. 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