Well, so much for regular posts ... but I do have a new computer and managed to fix the scanner! Betty Crocker Cook Book of All-Purpose Baking (1942) was a purchase from the Forgotten Bookmarks guy's "Book Per Diem" site. It originally cost 25 cents and it's lovely, with that gold-toned cover, color and black-and-white … Continue reading Two New Cookery Books for the Collection
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Meta Makes Me Sift Bread Crumbs
You probably don't recall my friend Meta (https://historylive.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/meet-my-new-friend-meta/), but I still have the two-volume cookbook. A month or so ago I decided to make dinner from some version of her menus (I rarely have the ingredients on hand to follow one exactly), and wound up with this for dessert: Cocoa Bread Pudding 1-1/2 cups evaporated … Continue reading Meta Makes Me Sift Bread Crumbs
What do you need to form a fire company (in 1837)?
Today was lovely, featuring a romp through several boxes of nineteenth-century Connecticut legislative records and lunch with colleagues (only one of whom was the one I'm married to). The answer to the question posed in the title has several parts. First, you needed permission from the General Assembly to establish a fire company. I suppose … Continue reading What do you need to form a fire company (in 1837)?
Thanksgiving Report, 2012
I'm baaaack! Six months is a long break, but I'm hoping to be a bit more active in the coming year. I'll try to at least post a few things about my occasional cooking adventures, some of them well after the fact. So, for Thanksgiving this year I went with the proposed menu from "Selected … Continue reading Thanksgiving Report, 2012
Home Economics Textbook (1937)
The fact is, of late I've been doing the same old, same old historical stuff, or else things I can't comment on. So here's a post about another acquisition for my pre-liberation domestic agenda collection. (If you can think of another term for it, be my guest!) At the flea market today I picked up … Continue reading Home Economics Textbook (1937)
Calumet Baking Powder
Our latest trip to the Brimfield Antique Show netted me not one, but two cooking pamphlets from the Calumet Baking Powder Company - my first ones from that company. First up, from 1931, "The Calumet Baking Book." With an attractive cover and 24 pages of recipes, it's a great addition to my collection. It also … Continue reading Calumet Baking Powder
Kristen Noble Keegan, Historical Geographer 