A Little Victorian Humor. Happy Tuesday! A little Victorian humor to start your day. More Fun Discoveries from Antique Cookbooks Daily Menu ~1915 Apple Jam ~ 1876 Bain-Marie ~1886
Not to Blame ~1891
The Daily Menu ~1915
Happy Friday! Here's a menu for meal ideas. Love the variety. More Fun Discoveries from Antique Cookbooks Directions for Setting Refreshment Tables ~1866 Golden Sunshine Cake – 1922 Meets 2017 Teen How to Choose a Potato ~1855
Coffee Monday ~1921
The English Breakfast. ...the long sideboard with its row of hot-water dishes flanking the vast coffee-urn which puffs out little angry jets of steam... Happy Monday! More Fun Discoveries from Antique Cookbooks Cape Cod Clam Chowder ~1866 Advice on Most Useful Vegetables ~1847 Army Slap-Jacks ~1886
Coffee Monday ~1921
For The Lady Who Breakfasts In Bed. ...It is a miracle of fresh and delicate appointments. Here's to Monday! ...if strawberries are served the hulls should be left on and the berries carefully selected for size and color. White grapes, peeled and chilled, may be substituted, or iced orange juice with fresh mint. Dry toast…
Eggs a la Goldenrod ~1917
Eggs on Toast Recipe. You regularly find recipes using hardboiled eggs in various ways in antique cookbooks. This Eggs a la Goldenrod recipe almost treats the eggs like a sausage substitute in a sausage and gravy over biscuits breakfast - but instead you have eggs and gravy over toast. Yum! Prep Time: 5 min. Cook…
Breakfast Inspiration: Poached Eggs on Toast ~1917
Poached Eggs on Toast Recipe. When was the last time you made poached eggs? You see them on menus all of the time in restaurants, and they serve as a rich, creamy addition to simpler companion foods: grits, fried potatoes, and toast! Note: Buttering the saucepan prior to poaching the egg helps keep the whites…
Omelettes ~1855
Recipes for Omelettes. Just in time for Sunday brunch, the omelette round-up. "Where is the man or woman cook but says they know how to make an omelette, and that to perfection? But this is rarely the case..." Simple Omelette Recipe. Note: Adding milk makes the omelette puffy, and lighter. Giving it more bulk as…
Coffee Monday: Yuban 1915
Yuban Coffee Advertisement. Happy Monday! More Fun Discoveries Coffee Monday: Washington’s Coffee Coffee Monday: Seal Brand Coffee Domestic Economy and Bliss in 1877
Coffee Monday: Yuban 1916
Yuban Coffee Advertisement. Happy Monday! Where to start with this one? Enjoy! More Fun Discoveries L’Eau de la Vie Recipe 1837 Coffee Monday: Washington’s Coffee British Wine Maker and Domestic Brewer Review ~1835
A Bachelor’s Breakfast
A Bachelor's Breakfast c1894 Love the top hat and ladies peeking in through the door and window! Artist: Ashe, Edmund M. (Edmund Marion), 1867-1941 More Fun Discoveries Remarks on Pie Making ~1866 Kisses from 1866 The Well-trained Mary Jane & No Greenery-Yallery ~1893
How to Keep Cool in Hot Weather (By One Who Knows) ~1902
Grape-Nuts?!? I bet you didn't see that one coming! You can feel from ten to twenty degrees cooler than your neighbor. Grape-Nuts is a concentrated food giving strength, vitality and coolness to the body and energy and clearness to the brain. Its crisp taste with the delicate sweet of the grape sugar makes it pleasing…
History of Aunt Jemima ~1919
This is a fascinating advertisement. A full page story within a story. The margins have small excerpts with their own narrative (Note the sack of 'Gold' on the table): The main story is two full columns: Interestingly, if the storyline is correct, all of this would have started around 1859. It references the Civil War,…
Army Slap-Jacks ~1886
Today's recipe post is in honor of the U.S. Army's birthday, June 14, 1775. Hooah! This recipe came out during the Apache Wars, a series of conflicts between the U.S. and the Apache Nations between 1880 - 1889. Think Dances with Wolves. It's easy to imagine a hot skillet slathered with pork fat, frying up…
Grape-Fruit For Breakfast ~1886
With a plentiful sprinkling of fine white sugar...use it at the beginning of breakfast; it is exceedingly refreshing and wholesome! Grapefruit - a treat for all ages! More Fun Discoveries Keeping Drains Clear ~1886 Currie Powder ~1866 Eating an Artichoke ~1886 Source: Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery and Household Management, 1886.
Eggs and Bacon Another Way ~1808
This recipe is essentially deviled eggs served on bacon and smothered in gravy. My arteries just hardened a bit. If you were working hard all day on the farm in sub-zero weather, though, I could see where this would fill in all the nooks and crannies! I would probably pair this with black coffee or…
