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Civil War Cooking: Dr. Potter’s Fine Dining on May 31, 1863
The most complicated food menu experience ends the series this year… Civil War surgeons had a hard and unenviable experience, but some of them ate pretty well between battles. Multiple menus from surgeons’ dining tables caught my eye this year, … Continue reading
Civil War Cooking: Mrs. Robert E. Lee’s Gingerbread
Go to the source! That’s what historians say, right? There are so many variations of “Lee’s Favorite Gingerbread” and I was excited to try a version from THE SOURCE. Mrs. Robert E. Lee of Arlington actually wrote multiple gingerbread versions in … Continue reading
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Tagged civil war cookin, Civil War Cooking, cooking-history-2021, gingerbread Christmas cookies, Mary Lee
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Civil War Cooking: The Lincoln Cake…According to Godey’s Lady’s Book
Lincoln Cake Beat two eggs. Add 2 cups of sugar, a ½ cup of softened butter, and 1 cup of milk, Gradually add 3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar, a ½ teaspoon of soda, and 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, civil war cookin, Civil War Cooking, cooking-history-2021, Lincoln Cake
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Civil War Cooking: Pumpkin Pie — From Field to Table
Take a pumpkin, make a pie. Mrs. Lydia Child’s explains how this was done in the mid-19th Century in her book The Frugal Housewife: For common family pumpkin pies, three eggs do very well to a quart of milk. Stew … Continue reading
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Tagged civil war cookin, Civil War Cooking, cooking-history-2021, pie
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Civil War Cooking: Theodore Dodge’s Boiled Beans with Curry
The winter of 1862-1863 for the Union’s Army of the Potomac has been compared to the Valley Forge hardships of the Revolutionary War decades earlier. For the Civil War soldiers, morale plummeted after the Battle of Fredericksburg and year of … Continue reading
Civil War Cooking: Sam Watkin’s Farm House Dinner
In the autumn of 1863, Private Sam Watkin in Company “Aytch” of the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment got sent on a foraging mission into the countryside of Georgia to bring back food. Somewhere along the way, he got a memorable … Continue reading
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Tagged civil war cookin, Civil War Cooking, cooking-history-2021, Sam Watkins
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Civil War Cooking: “A Taste of War”
It’s that time of year again…the week of Thanksgiving! Keeping with ECW tradition, it’s time for a week of “journaling”, research notes, primary sources, photos, and time in the kitchen to learn by eating and blogging for the Civil War … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Civil War Cooking, cooking-history-2021, food
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Civil War Cooking: “War Picnic” at Second Manassas with Jackson’s Corps
When “Stonewall” Jackson’s men captured supplies at Manassas at the end of August 1862, it was feasting time. In addition to storehouses, 100 train cars waited on the tracks, filled with supplies. Jackson ordered bread to baked and directed the … Continue reading
Civil War Cooking: Thanksgiving Dinner at the Wolfe Street Hospital
The larger hospitals in cities usually tried to have special foods for holiday meals, and through the letters of Private Will Lamson from the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, there’s a glimpse of the Thanksgiving dinner from 1862. Young Lamson had … Continue reading
