Cookey. (Dutch, koekje.) A little cake. Used in New York and in New England. A Near Year’s Cookey is a…
Hopping John is a New Year’s tradition that has survived relatively unchanged since the mid-19th Century. Specifically a Carolina tradition,…
Spend much time with historic texts, and you get the feeling Inigo Montoya is standing over your shoulder. “This word…
This pie is unusual by modern standards, but I have seen similar recipes in several 19th century cook books. It’s…
In the 19th century, shortcrust pastries similar to today’s were not the only type of pie pastry, not even the…
A 19th century baking powder biscuit, simple, tender, and delicious.
From a handwritten book of recipes from the 19th century.
Yeast prior to the 20th century was quite different from today’s bread yeasts.
Timbale of Cold Meat, from Miss Parloa’s Kitchen Companion, 1887[1] For a large part, meat recipes prior to the 20th…
Um, no, that doesn’t mean there’s spiders in the bread, or that it looks like a spider. A spider was…