Researching Food History

Another of the 10 peach recipes in Maryland's Elizabeth Ellicott Lea Domestic Cookery - Peaches in Brandy. The glorious peach on the ...

Mary Randolph's Virginia Housewife , first published in 1824, included many ice cream recipes - peach, vanilla, coffee, chocolate, coco...

Standing in water for hours pushing their nets ahead of them in the sand, the picturesque Shrimpers captured the shrimp and/or prawns.  When...

In a previous post - 7 years ago, (when this post was written, oops) - HERE , I discussed 19th century 'summer kitchens'.  In the ...

Stew stoves - one of my favorite flue-zies - were described in a 1882 camping book. The image shows two green logs flattened along the to...

Two poems in a children's book from 1880.  In the first poem, the little girl is "plucking the raisins so rich" from her [Qu...

The avocado, once called the Alligator Pear, appeared in books since the early 17th century, and by mid 1800s in London was "much eat...

For Girl Scouts, and now most campers, s'mores are THE summer campfire treat.  And no, you can't eat just one.  From the 1965 offi...

A variety of kitchen items become musical instruments in this 1890 sketch: "Fourth of July in the Kitchen."  Click to enlarge, cl...

Richard Bradley's 1727 cookbook had several fake/mock crabs using liver or chicken & potatoes, anchovy liquor, lemon and placed in c...

Cartoons and descriptions of the hazards of fishing. "Wading half an inch deeper than the tops of your boots, and finding afterward...

A plum pudding for the June 7, 1809 Bartholomew Fair at Paignton was so enormous it had to be boiled in a "brewer's copper."...

To support the British troops with their daily bread ration during the Crimean War in 1855-6, two iron steamers were refitted – one named ...

These fabulous colored images are from Conditorei des Orients (1838) by Friedrich Unger, the German confectioner to King Otto I of Greece....

The yellow and brown (chocolate) marble cake is from the 1933 Betty Crocker New Party Cakes .  The Black-eyed Susan is the official drink...

" Why does the old lady knock with her key on a frying-pan?"  Bees swarm when the hives "be too much crowded by the young br...

Ruth Hanly (1891-1973) and her friend Rebecca Gooch, both in their 20s, left teaching in 1919 to start a candy business – Rebecca Ruth Can...

Generally maple syrup is the end result from the sap tapped from maple trees.  However the following excerpts detail how maple sugar was...

Not the great showman P. T. Barnum, but H. L. Barnum (another of the vast Conn. family), lived in Cincinnati in 1831 when he compiled the 40...

Hot Cross Buns stored for a year?  Cornish folklore- "In some of our farmhouses the Good Friday cake may be seen hanging to the bacon-...