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Saturday, November 29, 2014
Beans and Valetudinarian Stomachs
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I had no idea the dried beans were not considered proper people food in the 18th and early 19th century England by the economically comf...
Thursday, November 27, 2014
1890 - A Short Tale, plus the Possum Nose Pumpkin
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Maule's catalogs have style... and it is distinctive to Maule! They got more boring in the 1900s. The la...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
1886 - The Days of Pumpkin Pies and Peace
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" Gold has always been considered one of the ingredients of the elixir of life, and this pumpkin gold, taken in the form of pie wi...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
"The Summum Bonum of Piedom"
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I thought I was done with pies but this is a good article from 1899 in Table Talk which gives names and recipes from well known ch...
Sunday, November 23, 2014
1895 - Pease's Singing Book: Music for Pumpkin Pie
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I figured singing turkey's were as close as I would come to singing pumpkin pies...besides, they are funny! Pea...
Saturday, November 22, 2014
1850 - The Great Peabody Pumpkin
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Chanticleer : A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family A t this crisis of triumphant explanation, Mopsey, who had under ...
Friday, November 21, 2014
On Receipt of a Pumpkin Pie
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In 1898 an educational publication suggested this poem as a good piece for a Thanksgiving program in school. Written around 1850 ...
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