Saturday, January 21, 2023
Temperance Drinks ... 1850
It's Dry January, so here are over 25 drinks from Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book. NY: 1850. Image (click to enlarge) of coffee urn cart with free bread, from a temperance group. Harper's Weekly. NY: 1880.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Tidal mills videos
Mills run on tidal movements are described in several taped talks and animation.
Upcoming - 5 hours on watermills this Saturday; and talk on MLK day on Georgia Gilmore who cooked to raise money for the civil rights movement.
Upcoming - 5 hours on watermills this Saturday; and talk on MLK day on Georgia Gilmore who cooked to raise money for the civil rights movement.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Twelfth Night Cake period images
Queen Victoria's 30 inch-diameter "Twelfth Cake," 1849, is the first of many images of Twelfth Night cakes, other food/drinks and activities for Twelfth Night (Jan 6). Click images to enlarge.
Sunday, January 1, 2023
New Year’s Day in New Amsterdam
This 1870 artwork by George Henry Boughton depicts the visits on New Year's day - with no "wines, brandy wines, or beers" and ... no shooting guns or beating drums.
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Holiday spirits and Christmas taped talks
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Ice Box Cookies or Refrigerator Cookies
During the 1920s, dough was chilled in rolls or logs in the ice boxes, then sliced and baked. With more electric refrigerators, the variety increased. Links to other historic cookies are below.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Stir-up Sunday; also Christmas talks and tapes 2022
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Coffee and other intoxicants (1600-1850) virtual exhibition and talk
From 1600-1850, new intoxicants included sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate, opiates and tobacco. A talk on the Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe website is on Nv 16.
Image of an "Ottoman coffee house in Istambul" from 1819.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Revolutionary War comes to the Tatnall and Lea mills in Delaware
During the Revolutionary War the Tatnall and Lea flour mills of Brandywine, by Wilmington, Delaware furnished flour to the American army. Washington and Lafayette visited Joseph Tatnall. Before the battle of the Brandywine, Washington ordered the top grinding stones of the mills to be removed and hidden from the British troops.
Labels:
Flour,
Lea (Elizabeth Ellicott),
Mills,
Revolutionary War
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Candies of old Salem - Gibralter & Black Jack
Salem Gibralters, created early 1800s, still sold today. Hawthorne wrote about them - rock hard, white and wrapped in white paper. Black Jacks were a deliberately burnt mixture of maple syrup, butter, brown sugar and molasses.
This week's talks.
This week's talks.
Sunday, October 23, 2022
The hard life of bakers in Victorian London
Starting at 11pm to make the dough, nap on flour sack over the kneading board (on the trough). wake at 2am, start kneeding and forming the dough then bake loaves in oven. When all that was done (in extreme heat), the bakers had to change clothes and go out on the street to sell the bread.
This week's talks including several on Halloween foods.
This week's talks including several on Halloween foods.
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Muffin Man in Philadelphia 1850
October 15 was the traditional start to selling muffins on the streets of London (past post and the small bell HERE). This image and the writer's memories of buying from the muffin-man in the afternoon is from City Cries.
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Dog wheel for butter churn
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Mr. Borden's concentrated and condensed milk
In 1856, Gail Borden (1801-1874) patented a Vacuum Pan "for the Concentration and Preservation of Milk."
Barbados deforested due to sugar production, Beekeeping in Bhutan, Jacques Pépin (artist, chef), British Saffron and other talks.
Barbados deforested due to sugar production, Beekeeping in Bhutan, Jacques Pépin (artist, chef), British Saffron and other talks.
Friday, September 9, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Well pump or bucket
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Barn-door Fowl and Dunghill Fowl - Chickens
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Articles found in a Kitchen Drawer 1824

Sunday, August 7, 2022
Recipe manuscript - school project at a woman's college c1831
Ann Augusta Forman Cooley (1810-1890) filled this composition book with recipes, possibly started as a school project. Raised a Quaker in NJ, then from 1828 to 1831 she attended Van Doren's Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies in Brooklyn Heights, perhaps the first woman's college. Click images to enlarge.
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