by Kate Dolan | Jun 23, 2012 | Food, Latest Posts, Living History
Summer has just started, but most of us have already been to a number of the standard hot dog/hamburger cookouts, ice cream socials and picnics with assorted ants, bees, biting flies, etc. So while we’re in the season, I thought I’d take a look at the...
by Kate Dolan | Dec 24, 2011 | Articles, Colonial America, Food, Holidays, Latest Posts, Living History
As I was celebrating Christmas Eve-Eve with a glass of eggnog I wondered how long people have been drinking this stuff to celebrate the holidays. I started my research with a book on “Colonial Christmas Cooking,” partly because it’s relevant to the...