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Simple Salads Without Greens
I found a variety of unusual salads in 1800s cookbooks; therefore I didn’t include any recipes for potato, chicken, or macaroni salad. INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS ITALIAN SALADTake six cold, cooked potatoes, cut in dice, six flaked sardines, three small cucumber pickles, chopped, and a stalk of celery cut fine. Add French dressing. PIMENTO SALADTake several hard-boile...

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Never Waste Stale Bread
Food in the 1800s was too precious to waste. When you consider the time and effort of making homemade bread, you can understand why cooks made use of bread that went stale. INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS — Cut stale bread into small pieces, the size of dice. Brown in a hot oven (about 400-450 degrees Fahrenheit) and serve with soup instead of serving crackers. — Small pi...

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How to Roast and Boil Coffee
For most of the 1800s, Americans bought green coffee beans in bulk and roasted and ground them at home. Pre-roasted and especially pre-ground coffee only became common toward the later part of the century. Many people simply boiled ground coffee in a metal kettle or pot over the hearth or stove, then let the grounds settle before pouring. Later in the century, early percolators ...

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How to Pickle Mushrooms

Pickling is a way to preserve foods by using a salt brine or acidic solution.  Pickling mushrooms was a way to preserve a seasonal crop. In the United States, people living in rural areas gathered a small group of recognizable wild mushrooms much like those foraged today. Pickled mushrooms were served in autumn–winter or as part of a mixed pickle, relish, or cold meat sp...


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How to Cook Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding

Recipes in 1800s cookbooks provided ingredients and cooking instuctions, but were were vague as to heat tenmperature and cooking times. People cooked using a fireplace or wood burning stove, and had to learn how hot different types of wood would burn. Electric stoves weren’t introduced in the U.S. until the 1910-1930 time frame. Oven thermometers were introduced around 1915. ...


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