Researching Food History

These are very long ovens with the flue at the back that then crossed over the top of the oven, like a squirrel's tail, so the smoke an...

Four libraries with renowned culinary collections are holding their Great Library Pie Bake-off. This year's theme is Bite the Hand (Pie)...

Farmers in the German (Pa. Dutch) parts of Pennsylvania and the east would get some hope if the groundhog did not see his shadow. But. T...

Three snowy scenes on the trade cards for Beatty steam bakery, since many parts of the US are dealing with a large amont of snow and sleet....

Flour barrels everywhere - “I shall have no visitors.” Jan 6 - Five years. Never forget the horrific attack on the police and the Capitol ...

Years ago I was intrigued by roasting butter on a spit. An Irish woman in Ellis's 1750 book made it many times over Christmas "to ...

Christmas foods and other Dec. food history zoom talks are listed below. The winter scene in a horn is from a Baltimore company's tra...

John Davis Billings (1842-1933) from Massachusetts, was a soldier during the Civil War. Later he wrote a book about Army life, first publi...

Since many apples were required to make apple butter by the Germans in Pennsylvania, the neighbors would gather to help with the work. Sni...

William Pitt Clotworthy (1829Ireland-1902) of Baltimore created and patented Patapsco Baking Powder. The following excerpt from Howard'...

Cattle - and pigs and turkeys - were walked to towns or cities to provide meat for consumers.  Ice cooled railroad cars later in the 1800s e...

Actually, I missed it at one million... and now its over 1 1/2 million... since I rarely look at the stats (or the comments which I am woefu...

Fred Waring (1900-1984) was a popular band and choral leader (The Pennsylvanians). He invested in Fred Osius's blender and changed the...

Memorial Day Never forget that many gave their lives over the last 250 years for us to live in a free democracy. Cruikshank's 182...

...and an upcoming zoom talk on May 18. Just got an email from CHAA about their pepper pot talk, and wanted to get the word out. I did a...

Many well known chefs who taught students in their homes or at cookery schools wrote cookbooks containing their recipes: Hannah Wooley (c162...

Although the ice house image and description are nice, the second paragraph is intriguing. Ice piled on the ground, covered with a layer of...

The first "Jelly Cake" using cake in an English language cookbook was in the third edition , of Philadelphian Eliza Leslie’s Seve...

Described by a ten year old boy in 1895, the practice was called old fashioned in a 1914 magazine article.

Wonderful illustrations accompany this 1870 description of corking and tying to a bottle. Wooden topped corks from Beeton 1...