Note: Dyspepsia is the more flattering Victorian-era term for indigestion. Newspaper advertisements abound with pills and cures for dyspepsia – and it is almost always blamed on the cook.
A Little Cooking Humor ~1897

Recipes from the Past
Note: Dyspepsia is the more flattering Victorian-era term for indigestion. Newspaper advertisements abound with pills and cures for dyspepsia – and it is almost always blamed on the cook.
I wonder what she prepared, and, how???
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I wonder if indigestion wasn’t relatively common given that food-borne illness wasn’t well understood.
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