1932 "Peanut Butter Bread"
This is a quick bread, similar to things like banana bread or zucchini bread, so it doesn't require any yeast or rising times. Just...
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Historical Cooking
Get a little taste of history
Noemi Aguilar
Oct 29, 20182 min read
Civil War Beef Stew
Learn what Union Soldiers ate during the Civil War, and try a historical recipe for Commissary Beef Stew from Captain James M. Sanderson....
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Noemi Aguilar
Oct 7, 20187 min read
Mangos 1,000 BC
What is a mango? Trick question. The answer depends upon context. In India, these juicy native fruits are deeply ingrained in both...
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Noemi Aguilar
Oct 4, 20185 min read
When was cereal invented?!?
The first cold breakfast cereal, Granula, was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson, operator of Our Home on the...
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Noemi Aguilar
Oct 4, 20181 min read
Nini Sherini-AKA Almond Cookies
Original recipe from al-Baghdadi: Aqras Mukarrara. Take white flour and knead lightly, then leave to rise. Take a ratl of sugar and a...
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Noemi Aguilar
Oct 1, 20182 min read
Prison Sample Menu, circa 1740
In the 18th century more than 200 offences were regarded as serious enough to be punishable by death. Serious offenders who were not...
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Noemi Aguilar
Sep 24, 201811 min read
Kennedy-Nixon Debate 1960 part 1
A kinescope of the John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon presidential debate. "I'm not satisfied when we have over nine billion dollars...
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Noemi Aguilar
Sep 17, 20181 min read
Thomas Jefferson's Colonial Catfish Soup
Thomas Jefferson's cooking notebooks paint a picture of fine dining in Colonial America, which was a culinary mish-mash of English,...
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Noemi Aguilar
Sep 10, 20182 min read
Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Dumplings
– from Christiana Campbell's Tavern Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia Serves 4 Pastry Ingredients: ¼ cup all vegetable...
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Noemi Aguilar
Sep 4, 20184 min read
Lady Barbara Fleming's Gingerbreads 1673
Fall is Here!! So in the spirit of pumpkin spice everything I thought why don't we through in some gingerbread too! I hope you enjoy this...
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Noemi Aguilar
Aug 3, 20181 min read
Acient Recipe of Pompeii
PEPONES ET MELONES (Water and Honey Melons) Ingredients: 1/2 honey melon 1/2 water melon 500 ml Passum a little bit of honey (or Passum)...
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Noemi Aguilar
Jul 23, 20183 min read
Chicken Surprise
Here is a 18th century recipe I came across, it might seem very odd but id say try it out and see for yourself! I think it would be a...
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Noemi Aguilar
Jun 18, 20181 min read
CONFEDERATE SHORTBREAD
I hope you enjoy this Civil war recipe Wheat flour was quite scarce in the south during the Civil War, so soldiers baked bread from...
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Noemi Aguilar
Jun 16, 20182 min read
A 200-year-old chicken salad
This recipe is called a "French Salad" and it comes from Maria Rundell’s 1808 cookbook, “A New System of Domestic Cookery”. I know, 1808,...
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Noemi Aguilar
May 16, 20182 min read
18th Century Orange Custard - "Orange Fool"
Fit for the Washington's, this special dessert came from Martha Washington herself and I can't wait to share this with you. Dessert is a...
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Noemi Aguilar
May 16, 20182 min read
“A Pioneer baking Solution”
Here is an old recipe that has been lingering in my mind, I found this recipe when I was a lot younger. I think I saw this pie in an old...
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Noemi Aguilar
May 16, 20182 min read
The Potato Crunches
Crazy random i'd love to share with you all, hope you enjoy this read! Some time ago a man by the name of George Crum played a joked on...
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