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Wheels or rounds of cheese
How to Preserve Cheese Without Refrigeration

How to Preserve Cheese Without Refrigeration

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Electrical refrigeration wasn’t available in homes in the U. S. until around the 1920s. Before then, people had to preserve cheese by other means. A large round or block of cheese was often purchased to store and use throughout the winter. Cheese was too expensive to allow to mold or dry out. INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS CARE OF CHEESEThe very strong odor and flavor that characterize cheese make it necessary to prevent it from coming in contact with other…

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Homemade chocolate macaroons
How to Make Homemade Macaroons

How to Make Homemade Macaroons

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In the 1800s, stoves were heated with wood, so cooking in the oven was a challenge. Cooks had to learn what type wood would provide the heat they needed and how long it would burn. Cookbooks provided guidelines, but cooking skills were gained through experience. Oven thermometers had not been invented yet, so recipes for baking had no exact temperatures or cooking times. Temperatures were sometimes referred to as slow,  moderate, or quick/hot. One way to test your oven’s heat was…

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Cream of Squash Soup
Vintage Vegetable Cream Soup Recipes

Vintage Vegetable Cream Soup Recipes

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Cream soups are a great way to use fresh vegetables and incorporate milk and cream into a meal. no matter what the season. Even though these recipes are from 1800s cookbooks, you should be able to recreate them today. The cream of lettuce and cream of lima bean soups sound interesting to me. INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS: CREAM OF LETTUCETake two heads of nice, fresh lettuce, wash and drain and chop fine with half a small white onion. Put…

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Roast Poultry and Stuffing
A Variety of Stuffing Recipes for Poultry

A Variety of Stuffing Recipes for Poultry

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Homemade stuffing was a great way to use up stale bread and other ingredients and provided a nice dish to accompany poultry. The recipes below will give you some good ideas for stuffings, and you can make changes to suit your taste. INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS It is necessary to know the difference between fowls and birds. A fowl always leads its young ones to the meat and a bird carries the meat to its young. So our common…

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