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From The Blue Grass Cook Book by Minnie C. Fox (1917)
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PENDENNIS CLUB MINT
JULEP
By a well-known member of the club, Louisville,
Ky.
These are some essentials .
1st. Fine, straight, old Kentucky Bourbon
whisky blended whiskies do not give good results.
2d. An abundant supply of freshly cut sprigs
of mint preferably young shoots no portion of
which has been bruised.
3d. Dry, cracked flint ice. A glass will an-
swer the purpose, but a silv...
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For those of you who heard the story this morning on NPR: The Family Dinner Deconstructed (for those who didn't, it's here), it reminded me of something I read yesterday in 250 Meatless Menus and Recipes (1910). The dinner table has always been a place of great comfort in my life; and its honor is not newly celebrated. And so, I would recommend lingering over dinner to every family with young children and old, but I question the modernist contention in the piece this morning that "research&...
From A Garden of Herbs (1921)
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"If you will have the leaves of the parcelye grow crisped, then before the sowing of them stuffe a tennis ball with the sedes and beat the same well against the ground whereby the seedes may be a little bruised or when the parcelye is well come up go over the bed with a waighty roller whereby it may so presse the leaves down or else tread the same downe under thy feet." A Crete Herball,
Herc...
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From Home Pork Making
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The general subject of feeding and fattening hogs it is not necessary here to discuss. It will suffice to point out the advisability of using such rations as will finish off the swine in a manner best fitted to produce a good bacon hog. An important point is to feed a proper proportion of flesh-forming ration rather than one which will serve to develop fat at the expense of lea...
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From The Ice Crop (1893)
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Prior to 1805, there was no regularly conducted traffic in ice, in this country. In the winter of 1805-6, a supply was secured at Boston, Mass., and the following summer a cargo was despatched to the West Indies, where yellow fever was then raging.
Domestic and export trade were both of very slow growth, and, in 1825, the ice consumed in the United States and exported to ...
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From Home Pork Making (1900)
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This is highly prized in some parts of the country, affording a breakfast dish of great relish. A leading Philadelphia manufacturer has furnished us with the following recipe: To make 200 Ibs. of scrapple, take about 80 Ibs. of good clean pork heads, remove the eyes, brains, snout, etc. Put in about 20 gals, of water and cook until it is thoroughly done. Then take out, separate the bones and chop the meat fine...
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by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
From A Garden of Herbs (1921)
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"If you will have the leaves of the parcelye grow crisped, then before the sowing of them stuf...