Authentic recipes and housekeeping tips, shared from nineteenth century cookbooks & housekeeping manuals. We're eating well, 1800's style.
BLACKBERRIES as medicine, and MEDICINAL BLACKBERRY JAM
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Hi Friends - Welcome to our first go at a 'Tuesday Tips' email. I thought it would be fun to punctuate our daily recipes with a nineteenth century housekeeping or gardening tip each week. Yesterday, as I was searching for a recipe, I was amused to find a recipe for Blackberry Jam in a cookbook chapter titled, "Medicinal Department". Then a short while later, I came across a paragraph written by Mrs. Child in 1832, extolling wonderful health benefits of blackberries. An email about blackberries seemed meant to be! ~ Anna
Here's a photo of the paragraph about blackberries, as it appears in the original book: And of course this seemed to pair so well with the "medicinal" blackberry jam, that I definitely had to include that too. (I can't vouch first-hand for its medicinal benefits, but I can testify that it's delicious!)
Here's a photo of the jam recipe as it appears in the cookbook: Tomorrow I'm sharing an 1892 recipe for Composition Cake. I may or may not be eating it for breakfast as type this...Let me just say, tomorrow's recipe is one you're going to want to make. |
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The 1800's Housewife
Authentic recipes and housekeeping tips, shared from nineteenth century cookbooks & housekeeping manuals. We're eating well, 1800's style.
Sweet Potatoes From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book and Marketing Guide, 1881 {Editor's note: I'd promised lentil soup, but forgot today's is a Sunday newsletter, where I where I write in the voice of my "living history project" alter-ego, Florence. Since I want to gush a bit from a modern perspective about that cook book, I'm saving it for tomorrow (when I'll show up in your inbox like usual), and we'll enjoy some simple sweet potatoes today. ~ Anna} My dear Hattie - Received your letter, which...
Lemon Snaps From Practical Housekeeping, 1881 {Editor's note: In Sunday emails, I've been writing in the voice of my "living history project" alter-ego, Florence. It's the approach you'll find on most of the blog posts, and I'm trying it on for size here in the Sunday edition of our daily newsletter. You'll hear from me like usual tomorrow. Until then, Anna} My dear Hattie - Received your letter this week, and smiled to hear you so warmly remember the cookies I served, during your last visit...
Composition Cake From the Snow White Cookbook, 1892 Hey there, all - Composition Cake seems to have been, in many ways, a bit like today's chocolate chip cookies. Every cookbook has a recipe for it, and they're all a little different. Let me tell you, the Composition Cake I made yesterday, from an 1892 recipe, deserves a country fair blue ribbon. It is just that good. Slightly crackly on the top, a nice crumb throughout, and with a lovely combination of spices and raisins. I hope you enjoy it...