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Mock Mincemeat Recipes – Without MeatTraditional mincemeat contained meat, fresh fruit (mostly apples), dried fruits such as raisins and currents, spices, and alcohol, which helped...
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Turtle Was a Popular Dish in the 1800sMany cookbooks from the 1800s included recipes for cooking turtle; snapping turtle, box turtle, sea turtle, and diamondback terrapin. Today, many...
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Making Fish Soup and ChowderINFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS FISH. REMARKSIn choosing fresh fish, select only those that are thick and firm, with bright scales and...
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About Sugars and SyrupsSugar cane was first planted in the United States in Louisiana in 1751. But sugar beets weren’t planted until 1836, near Philadelphia....
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How to Cook Chicken (Poultry) GibletsINFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS The giblets of poultry consist of the head, neck, wings, feet, gizzard, heart, and liver. As meat is the...
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Cooking with Suet (Tallow)Suet or the fat from around the kidneys and loin of beef and mutton. It has a high smoke point, and usually used for making pies and pastries....
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A Variety of Dumpling RecipesMost of the dumpling recipes from 1800s cookbooks are for rounded dumplings. Some recipes say to wrap the dumplings in cloth, like when boiling a...
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How to Select Fresh Poultry at the MarketIn the 1800s, people who didn’t raise their own poultry usually bought their meat from a butcher shop. There was no electric refrigeration...
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Ways to Cook Turkey, Make Gravy and DressingWhen people went to the market to buy poultry in the 1800s, it wasn’t usually already plucked and cleaned. And cooking in a wood burning...
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How to Make Perfect Pie Crust / PasteINFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS Few people know what really good pastry is. Fewer still can make it. It has no inevitable resemblance...
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How to Make, Preserve, and Cook SausageIn the 1800s, electric refrigeration was not yet available. People who raised pork often made their own sausage, which could be preserved for...
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Old-Fashioned Popcorn SweetsPopcorn is a special type of corn; not all varieties of corn will “pop.” In the 1800s, some families raised their own popcorn. After...
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Chestnuts and Ways to Cook ThemChestnuts are not actually nuts, but are the edible fruit of trees in the family Castanea. These type of chestnuts grow in North America, Europe,...
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Pumpkin Mush, Pudding, Chips, Parmesan, SoupPumpkin is a common term for mature winter squash, of which there are many varieties and sizes. They are a hot weather crop and need a long...
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How to Use Quinces, an Old Fashioned FruitQuinces resemble a pear, and are yellow when ripe, but the exterior is bumpy. They have a sour, astringent taste unless completely ripened, so...
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Season Food with Herbs and Tinctures“Many people have the idea that a finely flavored dish must cost a great deal. That is a mistake. If you have untainted meat, or sound...
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How to Cook Eels (Elongated Fish)Although eels look like water snakes to me, they are actually elongated fish. There are many species and they can be from 2 inches in length to 13...
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Preserve Meat by Pickling with SaltSalting is the process of preserving food with dry edible salt. It is related to pickling in general and more specifically to brining (salty...
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How to Make Homemade SauerkrautIf you’ve never eaten sauerkraut before, you may not like the taste or texture. But as with any new food, you can get used to it, especially...
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Make Homemade Flavored Vinegars“These vinegars will be found very useful, at times when the articles with which they are flavored cannot be conveniently procured. Care...
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Tasty Sauces for Chicken and Other PoultryAre you looking for different ways to cook chicken and other poultry? You might want to try these recipes for poultry sauces from various...
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Old Fashioned Cooking Hints and AdviceMost old cookbooks also included cooking and household advice. Here are some hints from cookbooks published in the 1800s. Please note that the...
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How to Make and Cook HominyHominy is made from dried corn (maize), soaking the corn kernels in a weak solution of lye. Then it can be cooked or dried for later use. Ground...
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Unusual Sandwiches from the 1800sI don’t make sandwiches often, but they’re not anything like these from 1800s cookbooks. I was especially intrigued by the baked bean...
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Cauliflower Recipes from the 1800sCauliflower wasn’t very popular during most of the 19th century because it was expensive to buy. In the latter part of the century, though,...
