July 30, 2016

Historic Food Exploration

First off...alloo! Long time no see! I hope you are all happy and well.

I'm still having serious health health issues and my diet is crazy boring, so I tend to not think too much about meal planning and fun dishes, and I have been sticking with what will keep me out of the hospital, so I haven't really had much to share with you all. I've been digging back in to my genealogy research again when I feel up to it, and that has led me to a few cool things on youtube that I thought some of you might find interesting!

The first is a channel called Jas. Townsend & Son
He cooks recipes from, and talks about life during the 18th century. I've watched several and have been enjoying them a lot! The main channel is here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
And this is one of his vids on soldiers and food:

I've just started this one - Victorian Bakers which is a BBC production that brings four modern professionals together to explore baking in the Victorian era. I think there are 3 or 4 episodes and the first is here:



And this is a huge collection of historic food videos collected by Heather Randall that I'm just beginning to sort through which seems to cover a wide variety of periods in British history.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4nfEcXSm87tYY_xsu_oTGH3vaNPJiejB


Tasting History
Another addition of food throughout history videos!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaGKqPZnGp_7N80hcHySGQ

I really rec Max videos. Very interesting recipes!


Luc


EDITING TO ADD THIS COOKBOOK AT PROJECT GUTENBERG
The Virginia Housewife by Mary Randolph - 1860
Available in several forms as well as HTML for free:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12519

And a little backstory on Mary Randolph:

http://makinghistorynow.com/2016/04/mary-randolph-and-african-culinary-connections/



The Cookbook of Unknown Ladies
Curious recipes and hidden histories from Westminster City Archives
18th-19th Century recipes in a categorized blog
https://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/category/cookbook-recipes/18th-century-recipes/