Researching Food History

Friday, August 1, 2025

Refrigerated Railroad Cars and other cattle transport

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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...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

The little blog that could... with over a million and a half views

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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...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Waring Blender and cocktails

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Fred Waring (1900-1984) was a popular band and choral leader (The Pennsylvanians). He invested in Fred Osius's blender and changed the...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Memorial Day - 1820 Midshipman's kit

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Never forget that many gave their lives over the last 250 years for us to live in a free democracy. Cruikshank's 1820 image showed ...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Pepper Pot

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...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. Several ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Cookery Schools

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Many well known chefs who taught students in their homes or at cookery schools wrote cookbooks containing their recipes: Hannah Wooley (c162...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Ice house 1854 and a pile of ice kept above ground for a year

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Although the ice house image and description are nice, the second paragraph is intriguing. Ice piled on the ground, covered with a layer of...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Eliza Leslie's two Jelly Cakes

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The first "Jelly Cake" using cake in an English language cookbook was in the third edition , of Philadelphian Eliza Leslie’s Seve...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Popcorn and New Year's Eve

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Described by a ten year old boy in 1895, the practice was called old fashioned in a 1914 magazine article.
Friday, November 29, 2024

Bottling and Corking

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Wonderful illustrations accompany this 1870 description of corking and tying to a bottle. Wooden topped corks from Beeton 1...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Bread for soldiers in 1821 manual

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General Regulations for the Army included instructions for quartermasters to inspect the bakery and officers were to read articles on ...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Stone sink and pump at Sandpit Gate in Windsor Great Park 1750s

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Paul Sandby (1731-1809) made several pen and watercolor images of this kitchen which included an indoor water pump onto a stone sink, shap...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Charcoal types - different woods

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Charcoal made from hard wood was good for fuel, from soft wood good to clarify liquids or make crayons or gunpowder. Blacksmiths used che...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Fried Beets 1723

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This early beet recipe with a lovely wine and cloves flavor is a delicious and different way to use beets this fall.  An earlier post detail...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Piles of Puff Paste cake - 1651, 1772

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A ‘Gateau de Mille Feuilles’ recipe was described in La Varenne’s Le Cuisinier Francois , in 1651. It’s name, translated ‘Cake of a thous...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Gone fishing

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Excerpts about bait, 1594; preserving fish, 1732; To cure tainted Fish, 1819; and cooking. Over thirty taped talks on fishing, Herring Gir...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

World War I trenches - dining & baking

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Memorial Day - never forget. Soldiers had a rough time in the trenches, and civilians at home were asked to... "FEED A FIGHTER E...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Mothers and children by the fire

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Happy Mother's Day. This is one of my favorite pictures ... a Russian stove 1803 by Atkinson. Interesting baby keeper and a sleeper o...
Monday, April 29, 2024

To clean hanging paper (wallpaper) with a loaf of bread

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If your loaf of bread becomes stale, you can clean “wall-paper that has become darkened by smoke." Following are a sampling of instru...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Dumb-waiters - table

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There are several items which have been termed dumb waiters over the years - a table, revolving door with shelf/shelves or a small shelf t...
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