Food and Food Packaging:

Brunswick Stew on 1850's dishes, at Cleydael 2003

Articles on this Website: Food / Recipes Roasting Ears of Corn How to make Corn Bread and What to do with that Corn Meal Brief article on making white bread Recipes from Period Sources: Transcribed from books owned by our members Anita's "perfect cornbread" receipt! Brunswick Stew: A Virginia tradition Foodways & Cooking Techniques: Open Hearth Cooking & Implements Eating by the Seasons -- foodways in the pre-refrigeration era Elegant fare: foodways of the Southern upper classes Is that food period? Packaging: Period Packaging and Bottles Articles / Resources On Other Sites: Food / Recipes: Picnics and Picnic Fare (includes receipes) - article by Virginia Mescher, 42nd Virginia website A Confederate Cookbook (online at the Documenting the American South website) How to make shrub and switchel (the period equivalent of Gatorade!) See Virginia Mescher's article on hot weather reenacting. Cake recipes from Godey's, 1860 (on Victoriana.com Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project (Michigan State University) Foodways & Cooking Techniques: Food History News -- excellent newsletter and website. Hog & Hominy: article by Vicki Rumble on her website regarding the typical diet of rural southerners in the 19th century Packaging: List of Links: Period Packaging and Bottles Steamboat Arabia Museum Steamboat Bertrand BIBLIOGRAPHY: Food and Food Packaging Reprinted facsimiles of period cookbooks from www.foodbooks.com Nicky Hughes' article on period food packaging in Camp Chase Gazette