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Edith wrote at least two articles for Table Talk, "The American Authority upon Culinary Topics and Fashions of the Table and also Devoted to the Interest of American Housewives, Having the Special Reference to the Improvement of the Table." Many editions of this magazine are viewable for free on Google Books.
In the 1913 September edition, Edith wrote an article titled "California Figs for the Table" on pages 519-21. She gives several recipes with figs: stewed, preserved, marmalade, pickled, filling for cake, jellied, and fruit balls ("a toothsome confection in which figs are a principal ingredient").
Table Talk--Figs.pdfIn the 1914 January edition, Edith contributed the article "California Prunes," pages 45-47. (According to the bio from the Class Secretary records, Smith College, Edith had a prune ranch in California - Rainbow Farm - Fulton, Sonoma County, California, April 1917. Rainbow Farm and the move to California is also discussed by Martha in her autobiographical manuscript).
This article includes prune recipes for canned, preserved, marmalade, pickled, stewed, pie, whip, souffle, cake, coffee cake, brown bread, jelly, and stuffed.
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