Category Archives: Recipe

A Stupendously Fresh Soup

Posted on September 15, 2015 by jmalin1026

Life on the trail in the 18th century was often a difficult and dangerous endeavor. It’s easy to romanticize from our overstuffed chairs what wilderness living may have been like — being one with nature, living in a symbiotic relationship with … Continue reading →

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A Simply Fantastic Lemon Cream

Posted on August 21, 2015 by jmalin1026

Don’t be fooled by the word “cream.” This delicious recipe for Lemon Cream from Amelia Simmons’ cookbook American Cookery (1796), is ironically completely dairy-free. Instead, it uses an interesting egg-cooking technique which yields a delicious custard-like dessert. While fruit creams of this … Continue reading →

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Delightfully Whipped Syllabubs

Posted on August 21, 2015 by jmalin1026

Sweet recipes and desserts exploded in popularity during the 18th century. Cook books from that time are full of sugary treats that are as assorted in form as you can imagine. As delicious as many of these treats were, it … Continue reading →

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Switchel: the Original Energy-Ade

Posted on August 17, 2015 by jmalin1026

What do you drink if you’re worn out and need a little kick? An Ade, soda, an energy boost? In the 18th century, before supermarkets had shelves lined with this stuff,  many people drank a delicious beverage called Switchel. Beverages similar to switchel date … Continue reading →

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Pickling Onions in 18th Century England

Posted on August 1, 2015 by jmalin1026

Although pickling has been around since the dawn of time, records of food preservation techniques exploded in the 1700s. Helped by the growing industrialization of the printing industry, house management handbooks and cookery books became high in demand. Food preservation … Continue reading →

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Hasty Fritters

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Kevin Carter

Here’s a recipe that was apparently popular enough that it was copied almost verbatim in several 18th century cook books. It’s a recipe for fritters. A fritter, also occasionally called a fraze, was a fried pastry, like a doughnut. They were … Continue reading →

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Two 18th Century Vegetarian Recipes: Carolina Snow Balls and a Simple (but Delicious) Boiled Rice Pudding

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Kevin Carter

As a follow-up to my last post as well as to our latest video, I’m offering a couple of 18th century recipes from the 1767 cookbook, Primitive Cookery; or the Kitchen Garden Display’d. As I previously mentioned, this book was a … Continue reading →

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Currant Challenges

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Kevin Carter

I’ve written in past posts about the challenges of interpreting period recipes. I know I’m not alone in this. If you have tried making sense of some of the old recipes, you know what I’m taking about. It can be … Continue reading →

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Scotch Eggs

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Kevin Carter

If you’re trying Scotch eggs for the first time, you’re in for a treat! A popular snack food in the U.K., Scotch eggs can be found there in grocery stores, gas stations, and everywhere in between. I had my first Scotch … Continue reading →

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Stinging Nettle Soup

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Kevin Carter

I have many memories from my formative boyhood years of tromping through the woods, discovering nature, getting dirty, and hunting for anything with more than (or less than) two legs with which I could startle my poor dear mother. Occasionally, the call … Continue reading →

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