Frances Schaffer’s Shortcuts to Gourmet Cooking and Family Favorites by Frances Schaffer
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Overview: In the 1940s and 50s, Frances Calhoun was growing up in the central Nebraska city of Grand Island. Every school day, she passed the Hamilton-Donald Mansion on Second Street, awed by the magnificent entryway with its giant columns. She told her mother she was going to knock on the door of the mansion and ask if she could buy it. Her mother quite firmly told her she was not to go near the place. So, she always walked on the other side of the street when she passed by, fearing some dreadful impropriety. Still, she thought, she would like to own it some day.
The thought proved to be prophetic. In the meantime, Fran graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing, becoming a registered nurse. She married Dave Schaffer after graduation and they had five children. She relied on many prepared foods available to get meals on the table, but decided to follow the Feingold Diet after their child was diagnosed with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). She started making everything from scratch, using all-natural ingredients, and rediscovered the pleasures of fine cooking. Her husband told her she should open a restaurant. There was some tradition for this.
Genre: Fiction, Cooking
Her nonna (Italian for grandmother ) had been widely known in Wyoming for the Italian dinners she served in her husband s bar, and Fran s mother had cooked for special events at a local golf club. It all came together in the early 80s. Fran had what she calls her mid-life crisis and decided it was time to try a new career direction. At the same time the Hamilton-Donald mansion in Grand Island came up for sale. She and Dave had always collected antiques and wanted the proper home to display them. They decided it was perfect. They could live comfortably on the second floor and have a restaurant on the first floor. When they moved there in 1983, Fran immediately opened up her Italian restaurant, naming it Nonna s Palazzo (Italian for grandmother’s palace ) in honor of her Italian grandmother.
Over the years, Fran has continued to hone her cooking skills. Like so many women today, she had many interests and was very busy, so she learned ways to prepare made-from-scratch foods more efficiently. She developed shortcuts and used modern equipment to take some of the more intensive labor out of cooking. Many people asked for her recipes. She had been working on and off for several years on a cookbook, and when she closed the restaurant in 2005, she was then able to devote herself to devising and revising ideas more thoroughly, and at last produced the book, hoping you might enjoy cooking from scratch more easily and in less time.
Several secret recipes are revealed in this book, including Grandma Calhoun s Sour Cream Raisin Pie, a double crust caramelized raisin pie. This recipe was requested by Gourmet Magazine and actress Eva Marie Saint. Others secret recipes are Italian Cabbage Rolls, Raspberry Pie, Quick Sorbet, Lemon Parsley Chicken, and Fettuccine Sauce. Try the other recipes to find Fran s secrets to Italian cooking.
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