Catch Children At The Hearth: 19th Century Cooking, Manners & Games Imagined By Barbara Swell Expressed As Print

picked this book up as part of my research for a lecture on period food, There are some excellentth C, recipes, redacted for the modern cook, . . and, in many cases, easy enough for children to make with adult supervision,

The sections on play and chore time would probably come as a surprise to most children the idea that one would be expected to have milked cows and so on before heading off to school, and that one's sole toy might be a ball, would be a real shock to the more privileged youth, I think.


In any event, it's a brief read,

and a good start for historical reenactment, among other things.
Charming book of the past, Some recipes of awe amp wonder, but a few we bookmarked to try, I love to learn about time period things, This was a very quick read with lots of interesting facts, Eat your way back in time and enter the world of American children as they livedyears ago.
Sample foods, folklore and games found in the parlors of the wealthy, the boarding houses of the working class, and the cabins on the western frontier.
Includes overvintage photos plus historic recipes like cathead biscuits, sugar plums and hobo mulligan stew, Learn to make snow candles and snow taffy, tell Appalachian ghost stories and play roley hole and jack straws.
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