This is Recipe for Sleep, a podcast where we dust off very old cookbooks and let them lull us into dreamland. I’m Erin Brindley, a chef and storyteller. I’m going to read to you from an old cookbook full of recipes and stories, and hopefully it’s just interesting enough to keep your mind from ruminating, but just light enough that you can let it go when sleep arrives. Tonight, we are still deep in the pages of 1894’s The American Pastry Cook, a massive instructional tome written for hotel and steamboat cooks. We’ve only gotten through the first hundred recipes, and tonight we will read 36 more recipes for ice creams, sherbets, and frozen punches. It is 91 degrees today where I am, so that feels right. If you'd like to read some of my own stories and recipes, like the one for Cherry Gazpacho I just published, visit Thank Salt on Substack.

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