Bottling and Corking

Wonderful illustrations accompany this 1870 description of corking and tying to a bottle.

Wooden topped corks from Beeton 1863 book. Blog post HERE

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.