A Peek Inside the Bryony Cookbook

The Bryony cookbook will feature a collection of recipes from the Victorian era, the 1970s and modern recipes that suggest those time periods. We are still accepting some submissions.

Instead of the customary layout of soups and salads, main dishes, desserts, etc., the Bryony cookbook is topical, by event, rather than by dish. Features include items on Bryony’s breakfast tray, the special menu items on Munsonville’s Sue’s Diner, Steve and Brian’s complete Thanksgiving dinner, and foods served during John and Bryony Simons’ Christmas Eve wedding reception.

The food listings for both Bryony books—the novel and the cookbook—has been fluid. During the novel’s editing stages, I’ve even changed certain menus to reflect the recipes I’ve received. Some period foods, like boiled calves head, was always a mainstay.

Any profits from the Bryony cookbook benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties. Although the official submission cut-off date is long past, as long as the novel’s final editing phase isn’t past, and we’re still compiling the cookbook, we will take recipe submissions. Please send them to seansarah@aol.com.