Recipe for Sleep – A Sleepcast is a cozy place to put your thoughts when it’s time for your mind to rest. We’ve got a library full of very old cookbooks, 1850-1925, at our fingertips and we’re going to read each one to you, sweetly and slowly, one recipe at a time. Recipes are simultaneously full of beautiful imagery, (particularly for those of us who thrill in delicious food,) and soothingly dull.

Tonight, Host Erin Brindley continues reading, softly and sweetly, from “365 Desserts: A Dessert for Every Day of the Year” from 1900. Each of these little narrative recipes reads like a little poem. Snuggle deep into your sweet covers. You’ve made it. To the cozy, quiet time of day, where all you have to do is listen to Erin read you old recipes until you fall asleep.

Lemon Congee – AKA Flu Soup The best way to make Lemon Congee is in a huge batch, with a whole chicken, so you can put a bunch in the freezer so it is there, waiting, when the flu inevitably visits your house. This hybrid of Chinese Rice Porridge (Congee) and Avgolemono, (Greek Lemon and Chicken Soup,) is so gentle and soothing.