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Lesson 1: Recipe 5 – Boiled Potatoes, a foolproof basic.
December 11, 2020

Lesson 1: Recipe 5 – Boiled Potatoes, a foolproof basic.

This recipe is for boiled potatoes. Yes, just regular old boiled potatoes. Which proves that what we in 2020 might find a basic recipe, so simple no one could possibly need instructions, was actually necessary 130 years ago. But even a fundamental recipe like this…

Lesson One, Vegetables
Lesson 1 : Recipe 1 – Raw Potato Yeast, a Victorian “Starter”.
November 6, 2020

Lesson 1 : Recipe 1 – Raw Potato Yeast, a Victorian “Starter”.

We start lessons at the Victorian Cooking School with a questionable sounding “Raw Potato Yeast” recipe but have no fear, this 1880s bread starter is both simple & essential for every Victorian era cook.

Bread, Lesson One

About the Cooks

Chole White is a historical researcher & living historian with over a decade of experience exploring the social culture of foodways from the long 18th century through WW2.

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (Mrs. DA Lincoln) was a pioneer in domestic sciences at the end of the 19th century, teacher & principal at the Boston Cooking School from 1879-1885. Her book, "Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cooking School Cookbook: What to Do & Not to Do in Cooking" was first published in 1884 & paved the way for cookbooks for the next century.

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