In today's edition of They Don't Make 'em Like They Used To, we have:
*The accomplisht cook, or, The art & mystery of cookery : wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, than hath been publisht in any language*
1685, Robert May
archive.org/details/accomp… This is great stuff!
"To make an extraordinary Pie, or a Bride Pye" for a wedding, complete with layer illustration:

@JulieTheCranky Another Porch Cat story:
I have 4o'clock roots I dig up & replant every year. Never got around to planting them this season, between the heat and the whining mosquito horde. Yesterday I decided to plant them late anyway. I went out with shovel & bag of sprouting roots, dig my hole, & started arranging roots in it, and I hear a polite "Yow." Look up, Porch Cat is right in front of me, under a small oak tree. She comes over to check out what I'm doing.

Back in the Before Times, I set up this bobbin lace and did a demo at a museum. (December 2019) But now I want to A) Use the pillow this lace is on, and B) Set up a blocking-mat pillow, so! Here is the demo lace being worked off the pillow and onto the blocking mat, with the help of a scrap of foamcore.