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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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Interesting Beet (Beetroot) Recipes

Beets (also called beetroots) were an important root crop in the 1800s.  They kept well during the winter, were nutritious, and provided color to a meal. Beet tops (greens) and stalks were also cooked, but only when fresh. I had only eaten canned pickled beets until recently.  A friend baked some beets that were drizzled with olive oil and I liked them. The beet rec...


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Making Homemade Cottage Cheese

Before electric refrigeration, milk often soured before it could be used, But sour milk was not wasted. It was allowed to clabber or get thick, and then could be made into cottage cheese. My grandmother made her own cottage cheese and used to tie it in cloth bags and hang them from the clothes line to drain. She didn’t get electricity on her farm until 1950. Cottage cheese wa...


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Roast Goose and Christmas Goose Pie

Although people in the 1800s did hunt wild geese, a Christmas or holiday goose was more often a barnyard bird raised on farms. Wild geese are leaner, more muscular, and often older birds than domestic ones. Therefore, they need to be cooked a little differently. Recipes in cookbooks, unless specifically a cookbook for game, are for cooking geese raised on farmland. In the mid...


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Advice on Making Family Bread

INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS GENERAL DIRECTIONS.The first thing required for making wholesome bread is the utmost cleanliness. The next is the soundness and sweetness of all the ingredients used for it. In addition to these, there must be attention and care through the whole process. Salt is always used in bread-making, not only on account of its flavor, which destr...


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