Pineapple Bake-Ins
This recipe comes from a 1959 book titled Pillsbury’s Best 1000 Recipes: Best of the BAKE-OFF Collection. And before I get to the recipe, I want to tell you how I came to own...
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Potted Beef: 19th-Century Food Preservation
Something not sweet for a change! Today’s recipe comes from an 1876 book by Mary F. Henderson titled Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical Instructions in Cooking; In the Combination and...
Mousse For Valentine or Washington’s Birthday
A couple of years ago I was at a food history conference (they DO happen!) and one of the attendants gave me a neat little stack of papers, sandwiched between two layers of cardboard...
Christmas Cake: a Mrs. Beeton Recipe
In case you have not figured this out, I have a huge sweet tooth. Not only that, but I prefer baking over all other kitchen activities. One of my goals for this blog for...
To Make Hippocras, a 1615 Recipe
With the holidays coming up, I thought I’d share a drink that, although it had a different use in its period, would be an excellent addition to the booze selection at any modern holiday...
To Make An Orange Pudding
Last year, sometime during the fall semester, I was reading a book about the colonial American Southeast and came across a brief reference to an illicit orange trade between Spanish Florida and some of...
A Tasty Indian Pudding
I had every intention of making an effort on the Historical Food Fortnightly, but reality happens. This semester is the the semester when I am writing the big research paper that the department requires...
Historical Food Fortnightly 2016 #1 Meat-and-Potatoes: Blamanger of Fysshe
The Challenge: “They are a staple for the tables in the most rustic cottages as well as the fanciest banquet tables – and it’s also an idiom meaning a staple or the most basic...
Historical Food Fortnightly 2016
Hello there! Yes, I am indeed alive, and survived my first semester of graduate school! Last year, or rather, in 2014, I found the Historical Food Fortnightly challenge when it was already underway. Then...
Explaining the Radio Silence: Life Changes are Coming
It has been four months since my last post, but it was not an intentional break. I’ve just been too consumed with worry, anxiety, and anticipation to function in any capacity other than survival,...