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	<description>How women kept home in time&#039;s past</description>
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		<title>The Ice Box &#8211; Pre Refrigerator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 neighborhoods [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/03/the-ice-box-pre-refrigerator/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We know that Monday was laundry day and Tuesday was ironing day but what took place in the vintage home on Wednedsay?
Although it seems that it was common advice for a homemaker in time&#8217;s past to have a set day for doing a particular household task. Just what task to do on what day most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/02/wednesday/</link>
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		<title>Grocery Shopping in History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/02/grocery-shopping-in-history/</link>
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		<title>Victorian Paper Dolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paper dolls have been around as long as paper. A simple way to keep children occupied the child could not only color the doll and outfits but take her hand at drawing her in the first place.
In the Little House on the Prairie books we hear Laura mention her mother making outfits for Mary and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/02/victorian-paper-dolls/</link>
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		<title>Homemaking for Little Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1980 the Kitchen Garden Association was created to teach the homearts to children using kindergarten methods. This little section from an 1881 publication was for teaching how to set and wait on the dining table.
LESSON V DINNER-TABLE SETTING AND PRICKING
OH! HOW CAN A POOR LITTLE MAIDEN?
Oh ! How can a poor little maiden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2010/01/homemaking-for-little-girls/</link>
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		<title>The Use of Linen Dish Cloths And Their Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t you think?
Truly I&#8217;m not sure for the reasoning for the specific homemaking duties embroidered on dish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2009/12/using-linen-dish-cloths-and-their-care/</link>
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		<title>Vintage Holiday Recipes to Round Out The Year&#8217;s End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;365 Cakes and Cookies: A Cake or Cooky for every day in the year 1904


Cheap Sponge Cake
Mix carefully 1 cupful of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2009/12/vintage-holiday-recipes-to-round-out-the-years-end/</link>
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		<title>A Small Story with a Moral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the life of Madame Swetchine we read the following account of the amusements of a clever child&#8230; 
&#8221; The occupation of a courtier did not prevent Monsieur Soymonof from bestowing the most assiduous care on
the education of a daughter, who for six years was his only child. He was struck by the progress of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2009/12/a-small-story-with-a-moral/</link>
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		<title>Bathroom Cleaning Tips from 1911 &#8211; 1912</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bathroom, the most hated room in the home when it comes to cleaning. Even though it was not the most discussed aspect of cleaning for the early 20th century housekeeper. Here a few tidbits on the steps of cleaning the bathroom. While much of the methods can still be used today the chemicals surely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2009/11/bathroom-cleaning-tips-from-1911-1912/</link>
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		<title>Preparing the Thanksgiving Dinner ~1915</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The preparation of the Thanksgiving- dinner should be begun the day before, so that all of the work will not fall to the
forenoon of the holiday. 
The turkey or fowl that is to be used can be roasted in advance and set back in the oven the next morning&#8217;, it will heat
through in an hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage-homemaking.info/2009/11/preparing-the-thanksgiving-dinner-1915/</link>
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