Described by a ten year old boy in 1895, the practice was called old fashioned in a 1914 magazine article.
Some food history zoom talks for January listed below and in the Calendar.
New Year's Eve popcorn growing and with candy in 1895 -
One day Willie said to Harry, “let us get some pop-corn from papa and plant it.” They did so and they took great care of it, for they wanted to have some popcorn on New Years Eve, and they wanted their sister Minnie to made some candy and put popcorn in it. When the corn was ready to pick the boys picked it, and put it away in a place to dry. When New Years Eve came, they had a jolly time, and their sister made some candy while the baby Gertie watched her.
By Walter Robinson. Aged 10 years.
The Teachers’ Institute. March 1895, p164
1914
Th’ ole fashion o’ keepin’ open house on New Year’s Day an’ servin’ popcorn an’ elderberry wine has passed away along with th’ homemade doughnut an’ th’ crocheted motto. ..
The American Magazine. January 1914, p70
Blog posts about the many traditions on New Years Eve HERE
UPCOMING TALKS
Jan 3 Fri 1 The History of Diets and Healthy Eating. Lucy Jane Santos. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Jan 5 Sun 9AM Twelfth Night: Revelry, Fun and Food: A Twelfth Night. Paul Couchman, The Regency Cook. Sarah Tobias. £20.50 HERE
Jan 5 Sun 2 Dining Out with History at Atlantic Canada's Historic Sites. Author Jan Feduck. Culinary Historians of Canada CA$27.96 HERE
Jan 7 Tue 4 Chocolate Kings: Hershey vs. Mars. Dr Leslie Goddard. Bronxville Public Library. HERE
Jan 7 Tue 5-6:30 A History of Gardens 4 - Garden Technology. Dr. David Marsh. The Gardens Trust. £8 HERE
Jan 7 Tue 8 Mit Schlag: How Vienna Changed Baking Everywhere. Rick Rodgers. Chicago Foodways Roundtable. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jan 9 Thu 8-9:30 Quenching Gotham: History of New York City's Water Supply. Dave Gardner. Replay for one week. New York Adventure Club $12 HERE
Jan 11 Sat 10:30AM History in the Kitchen - English Corn Bread. Gunston Hall VA HERE
Jan 12 Sun 2 Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, D.C. Kim Prothro Williams. CHOW DC HERE
Jan 14 Tue 6-7:15 The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade. Nicholas Nugent author and William M. Fowler. American Ancestors. HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jan 14 Tue 7 19th-Century Health & Wellness, Taproom Tastings. Catherine Prescott and Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli. Keeler Tavern Museum HERE
Jan 16 Thu 12:30 Intoxicants and Revolution in the (Very) Long Seventeenth Century. Phil Withington. British History in the 17th Century. The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) HERE
Jan 19 Sun 4 Preserving the Past: 18th century food preservation. Susan McLellan Plaisted. CHAA Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor HERE TAPE may be HERE
Jan 24 Fri 7AM-12 Animal History Group ECR Symposium. Various topics. Colonial Power and the Indian Gaur: A Study of British Hunting and Conservation Policies in British India; commercial pig production and the transformation of pigs’ spaces, bodies and experiences in Finland, 1900s–1930s; Shall Pigs be Huge as Elephants: Transnational Making of Pig Experiments in Mao’s China; Navigating New Pastures: Introduction and Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Alaska and the Northwest Territories… Animal History Group HERE
Jan 26 Sun 8 The First California Cuisines. Richard Foss. Bay Area Culinary Historians HERE TAPE may be HERE or HERE
Jan 27 Mon 2 Big Apples, Big Business: How Washington Became the Apple State. Amanda Van Lanen. Humanities Washington. HERE
CALENDAR OF VIRTUAL FOOD HISTORY TALKS HERE
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