Saturday, December 30, 2023
New Year's Eve/Day in Germany 1840s-1860s
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Baker's peels and huge hoop skirts - George Cruikshank sketch
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Frederick MD working hearths ... Museums by Candlelight
Friday, November 10, 2023
WWI and WWII bakers and cookery schools
A World War II school in the desert in Egypt used ovens out of petrol tins and oil drums. Both images from Library of Congress.
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Charleston SC iron top stew stove
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Sweet potato storage in 1843 Virginia
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Cider press - wood or stone
Friday, September 8, 2023
Working stew stoves in museums
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Culinary Historians of Boston
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Civil War mess kettles
"Food and Agriculture during the Civil War" talk is this Friday, TAPE HERE. Just learned about it today so putting out a quick post.
Friday, August 4, 2023
Scherbet - Turkish and Greek, 1838
Friday, July 14, 2023
Fire in flour mills - Sanborn fire insurance maps, 6 fire dangers 1795
Fire was one threat to flour mills, flooding was another. The Sanborn maps of all buildings in a town (earliest 1868) contained information to help insurance agents... and firemen - building material (stone - blue, wood - yellow, brick - red), fire equipment in the complex, what was on each floor, fuel and more. This is an Ellicott City MD mill. Check to see if your local mill, home or other building is on a Sanborn map.
Oliver Evans wrote about six flour mill fire hazards in 1795.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Candling, Egg testing
Friday, June 9, 2023
Silk bolting for flour mills 1790s
Friday, June 2, 2023
Rumford Baking Powder recipe slide, Count Rumford taped talks and Hot Milk Cake
Click to enlarge and see how the ingredients are listed.
Several taped talks on Count Rumford
Friday, May 26, 2023
Army bake oven with a barrel
The Manual for Army Cooks 1896 image of an above ground dirt oven and an iron dutch oven.
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Steam kitchen in "Hannah Glasse"
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Salt Mines
More pictures added from various editions, 11 total. Click images to enlarge.
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Dutch milk-cellars 1869
Milk exhibit and talks from Wellcome in London.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Coronation Banquets - Many images 1685, 1821
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Mrs. Beeton's Corks with Wooden Tops
Instead of sealing a corked bottle with melted resin or wax, the corks with wooden tops were easier to remove and able to reuse.
There is a newly listed talk this Thursday on "Malinda Russell, the author of the First African American Cookbook" 1866. Also, spaces have been added for the Mrs. Raffold (Before Mrs. Beeton) talk on Wednesday.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Acton & Mrs. Raffald cookbook talks
Eliza Acton and Elizabeth Raffald are two British cookbook authors featured in talks this month, as are two collections - Longone Culinary Archives at U Michigan and the Jewish Food Society’s online archive.
Raffald's Chocolate Puffs and Acton's Clarified Marrow recipes.
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Playing in the kitchen - large wooden tubs
Contrary Winds (1843) by Thomas George Webster (1800–1886) in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Easter Eggs - Paas Dyes, White Rabbit Dye, onion skins, anilin
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Maria Massey Barringer - Dixie Cookery, 1867
Friday, March 17, 2023
Pepper Slaw, Pickled Cabbage
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.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Hattie Burr and the first Suffrage cookbook 1886
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Amelia Simmons
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Medieval taped talks
Image from book: Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch by Anna Wecker, 1598.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Tossing the Pancake on Shrove Tuesday
Pancakes and donuts (Fat Tuesday), Washington Cakes (President's Day), and Welsh Cakes (St. David's Day in Wales, March 1) links below.