Historical Food Fortnightly #14 Fear Factor: Neat’s Tongue
The Challenge: “What foods have you always wanted to attempt, but were afraid to attempt to make – or afraid to eat? Choose a dish that is either tricky to create or nerve-wracking to...
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Historical Food Fortnightly #13 Ethnic Foodways: Torta de Casabe
The Challenge: “Foodways and cuisine are at the heart of every ethnic group around the world and throughout time. Choose one ethnic group, research their traditional dishes or food, and prepare one as it...
Historical Food Fortnightly #12 If They’d Had it… : To Make Cheesecakes
The Challenge: “Have you ever looked through a cookbook from another era and been surprised at the modern dishes you find? Have you ever been surprised at just how much they differ from their...
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The Food History blog has a new home here at Historical Foodways! When I first started this blog, it was meant to be only for a class project and thus I was not too...
Why are sticks of butter long and skinny in the East, but short and fat in the West? | Marketplace.org
I don’t normally reblog other people’s posts but this is so interesting. I had no idea butter came in different shapes depending on which side of the US it’s being sold. Why are...
Historical Food Fortnightly #11 Foods Named After People: Victoria Sandwiches by Mrs. Beeton
Not, THOSE sandwiches, the sweet, cakey ones! The Challenge: “Beef Wellington? Charlotte Russe? Choose a dish named after a person, either fictional or real, to create. Bonus points if you can tell us about...
Amelia Simmons Pompkin Pudding No. 1
After I made the American Cookery Pompkin Pudding No. 2, I still had quite a bit of pumpkin puree and pie pastry left, so I decided to tackle the other pumpkin pudding recipe in...
Historical Food Fortnightly #10 Let Them Eat Cake!: “Savoy or Spunge Cake”
The Challenge: “The 16th [of October] is the anniversary of the beheading of Marie Antoinette (zut alors!). In honor of Madame Deficit, prepare your best cake from a historic recipe. And then eat it,...
Amelia Simmons Pompkin Pudding No. 2
It’s Fall in the Northern Hemisphere and it seems everyone in the United States becomes obsessed with pumpkin as soon as the first leaves turn. It’s pumpkin lattes, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin all...
Historical Food Fortnightly #9 The Frugal Housewife: Victory Bread
I’m joining The Historical Food Fortnightly late. The spirit of the challenge is to create a dish or edible consumable from a pre-1960 recipe every fortnight until May 31st, 2015. Documentation and research are...