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Pumpkin Pie
Posted in 18th Century Cooking, Baking, General, Historic Cooking, Pies, Video
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Paw Paw Pudding
Paw paws are a small yellow fruit native to the Eastern United States, but has a very short harvest season of only a week. Because of this short harvest season, it is hard to find recipes for this delicious fruit … Continue reading
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Tagged Indiana Banana, lewis and Clark, paw paw, pie
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Delicious Savory Onion Pie
Today’s recipe is a wonderful savory onion pie from “The Little Primitive Cookery” cookbook. This cookbook is a compilation of 18th century recipes that this particular author put together for people of lesser means. This onion pie was probably a … Continue reading
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Tagged onion, pie, Vegetable pie
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1796 Beef Steak Pie
Today we are doing a savory Beef Steak Pie using our Dutch oven. This recipe comes from Amelia Simmons’s 1796 cookbook American Cookery. Puff Paste Pie Crust ¼ pound Butter 2 pounds Shoulder Beef Roast White Onion Salt Pepper Flour … Continue reading
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Tagged meat pie, pasty, pie, steak
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Cheshire Pork Pie
Salt Pork Apples Pepper Salt Butter Water Top and Bottom Pie Crusts In our recipe, we’re going to be using salt pork. This is true 18th century style salt pork, not something like you might find on your grocery store … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, pie, pork
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Mock Passenger Pigeon Pie
Passenger pigeons were one of the most populous birds in the 18th and 19th century. There were billions of these birds on the planet. They were almost a scourge there were so many of them. They were very popular and … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Dutch Oven, pie, pigeon
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Pumpkin Pie
Today we’re going to be baking a pumpkin pudding, or as we know it, a pumpkin pie from Amelia Simmons’ 1796 cookbook, American Cookery. 1 pint Pumpkin 1 quart Milk 4 Eggs well beaten ½ cup Molasses 1 teaspoon Ginger 1 … Continue reading
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18th Century Pasties: Addendum
Here’s an interesting passage from William Ellis’s 1750 book, “The Country Housewife’s Family Companion” (page 65). Ellis speaks of the virtuous timing of slaughtering a “porker” prior to harvest. The scrap pieces of meat could be used in making portable … Continue reading
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18th Century Pasties, Part Two
As I began my quest to understand the 18th century pasty, I figured the first thing I needed to do was to leave behind all of my modern notions of what they were. I needed to travel light, leaving plenty … Continue reading
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Tagged crust, dough, ellis, mollard, pastry, pasty, pie, puff, rabisha
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Standing-Crust Pie Recipes
In my last (rather lengthy) post, I shared a recipe for a large standing crust from Mrs. Frazer’s 1791 cookbook, “The Practice of Cookery.” Rather than leave you standing there with an empty pie shell, I thought it would be … Continue reading
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Tagged assize, bread cheesecake, fricassee, olive pie, pie, raised, standing crust, vegetable, venison pasty
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Savoring the Past 