When you think about food in the 18th century you probably don’t think about ice cream, do you? You will after reading this post about an 18th-century apricot ice cream! While ice cream may sound like a modern-age food, a food from the age of refrigeration and freezers, people have been eating ice cream since well before those things came around in the 19th and 20th centuries. In fact, if we use the term “ice cream” loosely to mean frozen sweets, wealthy ancient Romans were eating it at least since the 1st century CE. They sent men up the mountains to gather ice, which they then shaved or crus ..read more

I like cooking, but I like having kitchen tools even more. I think. A couple of months ago I got into pasta making (not historical) and was determined to grind my own meats for sauces. So what was I to do except buy a meat grinder attachment for my KitchenAid mixer? So I did. It just so happened that the attachment kit came with tools to stuff sausages. Right then and there I knew that I wanted to try making sausages from a historical cookbook.     I searched through my books and settled on a pretty simple recipe from 1725 titled Court Cookery: Or the Compleat English Cook, publishe ..read more