Clues to Good Cooking

Many years ago, I was given The Nancy Drew Cookbook, Clues to Good Cooking, as a gift. It is a collection of over 100 recipes including things such as Tapping Heels Griddle Cakes, Blackwood Hall Muffins, Old Album Meatballs, Crossword Cipher Chicken, Bungalow Mystery Salad, Dancing Puppet Parfait, and Whistling Bagpipes Crunchies. I've made several of these recipes over the years and as a mater of fact, my family will be making Twisted Candles Peach Crisp and Old Clock Ice Cream Pie later this week. The recipes are simple and very easy to prepare, making it a great book for those with little cooking experience.

Although the original book from 1973 is now out of print, Grosset & Dunlap reprinted the book in 2005, making this cute book available to Nancy Drew fans once again. I picked up the newest version a few years ago and although the formatting is different, for the most part, the recipes are the same. I have a picture of both versions shown above.

A Nancy Drew poll section added!

I just added a poll at the bottom of the page. This week it is for which kind of Nancy Drew book is your favorite. I plan to have a new Nancy Drew poll each week, so please be sure to check back to see how the current poll is coming along, as well as take part in the next one. As a side note, I did have some trouble getting it to load on one of my browsers, but had no trouble with it on Internet Explorer, so please keep that in mind in case you have that problem too. Thanks so much for voting!

One of my favorite Nancy Drew collectibles...

This is probably one of the best gifts I have ever received. It's the 1957 Nancy Drew Mystery Game, which I've wanted for the longest time. The playing board is a really pretty map of River Heights and each player drives a miniature metal roadster!

The object is to be the first to discover Nancy's whereabouts, as she is currently working on a case at a location based on one of the books--Red Gate Farm, the Tolling Bell, the Haunted Bridge, Blackwood Hall, the Old Attic, the Sign of the Twisted Candles, the Moss Covered Mansion, or the Hollow Oak. It also shows pictures of Moon Lake and the Drew Home.

To find Nancy, you fill in the name NANCY with your five colored markers on any one of the eight locations on the board. The first player to do this has found Nancy and wins the game. However, it is a little more involved in that as you throw the dice and move on certain spaces, you draw a Mystery Card and one of the characters from a Nancy Drew book tells if you are to place your markers or take them off. It is a whole lot of fun, especially when you have the opportunity to play with other Nancy Drew fans!