Tag Archives: Cooking

Our cooking tag applies to posts which discuss cooking or recipes as a central point. We have several on interesting old recipes.

Quince recipes from Mary Eales’s receipts

Reprinting six (very) classic quince recipes from an 1733 cookbook…

Justin and Justina discuss quinces on an evening December walk in Manhattan.

“She made it herself … Without the least bit of help … But in eating it she’ll have / Assistance enough.”

A survey of 1913 reader-submitted menus for all three meals of the day.

“The wise old owl must not be forgotten in the Halloween decorations.”

An 1899 list of mostly accessable recipies for those bedridden with ilnessess.

Finding wisdom in 1899 children’s poems: “Simply roll on a mat or mire / And a fearful death evade”

〜A 1921 Thanksgiving recipe that proves that some good things should not mix together〜