Tag Archives: Food preservation techniques

Pemmican

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Jennifer Stanley

Pemmican is the ultimate survival food from the 18th and 19th centuries, originally made by indigenous peoples in North America. Buffalo was the obvious selection for large scale pemmican production. Many native peoples of America depended on pemmican for their … 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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