A Victorian Menu for New Year’s Day, 1892

A Victorian Menu for New Year’s Day, 1892

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Articles

This menu was posted in 1892 in a Pittsburgh, PA newspaper, but not the instructions– which those of us who are amused by history and cooking and the way things once were may well find fascinating. So this article is all about that menu… and how the home cook may have accomplished such a daunting task to celebrate the FIRST big holiday of the year.

Butter-making in the Old West

Butter-making in the Old West

by | Oct 26, 2015 | Articles

Old West homemakers churned their own butter as part of a time-intensive process. Churning butter depends upon much more than simply agitating cream–temperature matters. Can you imagine trying to churn butter on a bitterly cold day or in the heat of the summer when the process depended upon a narrow range of temperatures?