In The Kitchen
The Ice Box – Pre Refrigerator
In the period before refrigerators were available households kept perishables cool by using an ice box. Usually a wooden box that was lined with zinc and other insulating materials the ice box was the smaller, less efficient, ancestor of our refrigerator. Ice for the ice box was supplied by the iceman who delivered it through [...]
Grocery Shopping in History
Imagine if your refrigerator was gone. If you had to grocery shop for fresh meat pretty much when you needed it because frozen meat, and vacuum sealed were unheard of. And if you had never heard of tacos! Such was life before the industrial revolution. Well during too but it was the inventions coming about [...]
The Use of Linen Dish Cloths And Their Care
I like to think housewives of the past embroidered their dish towels with weekly activities as a way of reminding them what household tasks were to be done that day. Has a sort of romantic old fashioned appeal don’t you think? Truly I’m not sure for the reasoning for the specific homemaking duties embroidered on [...]
Vintage Holiday Recipes to Round Out The Year’s End
In a time with few pre-made packaged baked goods a Vintage hostess turned to her own recipes for the sweets with which to treat her guests. Here are a few recipes from the vintage cookbook…365 Cakes and Cookies: A Cake or Cooky for every day in the year 1904 Cheap Sponge Cake Mix carefully 1 [...]
Turn of the Century Meal Planning Advice
We’ve come discover that meal planning can save money, time and foster great family relationships here in the 21st century. The time is the very early 1920′s. Famous Home Economist Christine Frederick author of several homemaking books and magazine articles not to mention a homemaking correspondence course gives the following advice on meal planning … [...]
