The sugar and vinegar makes this a sweet and sour side dish that was found in Pennsylvania Dutch and German meals. It is different from creamy coleslaw.
A few new talks have been added, including Saturday, so I am putting out a fast post before Sunday.
Friday, March 17, 2023
Pepper Slaw, Pickled Cabbage
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Hattie Burr and the first Suffrage cookbook 1886
Hattie A. Colby Burr (1841-1935) compiled the fundraising book The Woman Suffrage Cookbook in 1886. While it was the first in the United States, it would not be the last suffrage cookbook until women got the right to vote... in 1920! For a short time she lived on same street (of 6 houses) as the more well known cookbook author Maria Parloa (1843-1909).
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Amelia Simmons
The first cookbook written by an American was American Cookery by Amelia Simmons, An American Orphan in 1796. But who was she? Perhaps Pamela Cooley has found her! After extensive research, she presents a convincing case for Amelia Simonds/Simons (1767-1796) of Windham, Connecticut.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Medieval taped talks
There have been many Medieval talks, one this month on the archaelogy of a Jewish German oven. And ofcourse upcoming talks.
Image from book: Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch by Anna Wecker, 1598.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Tossing the Pancake on Shrove Tuesday
"Shrovetide, Tossing the Pancake" 1862.
Pancakes and donuts (Fat Tuesday), Washington Cakes (President's Day), and Welsh Cakes (St. David's Day in Wales, March 1) links below.
Pancakes and donuts (Fat Tuesday), Washington Cakes (President's Day), and Welsh Cakes (St. David's Day in Wales, March 1) links below.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Salt in the hearth - in Niche or Salt-box
A stoneware container in a niche/hole in the hearth wall, or salt cellars kept salt "from running." Two period images, with one showing something in the niche, the other with a wooden salt cellar. CHNY's talk this Thursday is on... salt. History of salt-making in England taped talk.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Dining in America late 1820s - from the British point of view
Mrs. Frances Trollope (1779-1863), the mother of Anthony Trollope, travelled and lived in the US from 1827-1831. She wrote her observations - "Almost everyone drinks water," Pic-nics were rare, "dessert (invariably pronounced desart)" was common. This weeks talks.
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Food Diversity Day taped talks and more
Terrific talk on Swiss cows move to alpine meadows (CH of Chicago). 11 panels of speakers promoting diversity of cheese, bread, seeds, oceans, lentils and more, developed by Dan Saladino (Eating to Extinction). Taped and upcoming talks.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Temperance Drinks ... 1850
It's Dry January, so here are over 25 recipes in Temperance Drinks section in 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
Flour mills taped talks - Tidal, Floating, Water, Wind
Tidal mills cleverly run by tides, mills built on boats (famed Alexis Soyer used naval ships as a mill and bakery), windmills, mills in many states and countries are all described in tapes of talks or written excerts, below. Removing mill dams for river restoration. Upcoming talks.
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.
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.
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