Serves: 4 Prep time: 20 minutes Image credit: Tori Avey
Former White House Social Secretary and co-author of Treating People Well with Jeremy Bernard.
Butter-Roasted Radishes
Serves: 4 Prep time: 30 minutes
Baking Powder Biscuits from the White House Cookbook
Here is the original recipe: Two pints of flour, butter the size of an egg, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of salt; make a soft dough of sweet milk, knead as little as possible, cut out with the usual biscuit-cutter and bake in rather a quick oven. (I love that last part: ‘bake in a rather quick oven’!) Here’s the modern translation: Serves: 6 Prep time: One hour
Corn on the Cob
Serves 6 Prep time: 30 minutes Corn picks are nice to have, but unless you’re eating in a more formal setting I prefer to do without them. They tend to get thrown away by mistake, and hey, corn on the cob is a naturally messy food. Part of the fun of eating it is having a devil-may-care attitude about the mess.
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