The Cookbook I Check For Vintage Recipes

The pages are yellowing, but it's a resource when I'm flummoxed

Last weekend, I had a hankering for salmon cakes. They were a regular feature on my mother’s home cooking menu. I’d made them myself, but not for years, and I wasn’t completely sure about the proportions I would use.

A search online turned up fruitless. There were plenty of recipes, but they had far more ingredients than my mother’s version. Some of them…