Victorian Cooking: Angel’s Food Isn’t Always Angel’s Food
Angel Food Cake recipes are all very much the same from their inception in the late 1870s until today…
Until they’re not.
Who knew?
Angel’s Food isn’t always Angel’s Food.
Victorian America: Women Responsible for Domestic Happiness (1860)
Victorian-era expectations regarding women’s province (the home), placed responsibility for happiness, economy (and perceived respectability), and her husband’s “comfort” at home, wholly within her reach–and the consequences (good and bad) entirely on her shoulders. This vintage newspaper article, “Truths for Wives”, is a classical example of pervasive attitudes in the nineteenth century. While starkly dissimilar to today’s societal expectations, this short article from 1860 sheds much light on Victorian expectations–including winning and keeping a husband’s love.
