by Kate Dolan | Mar 1, 2015 | Articles, Colonial America, Food, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History
Today we usually think of apple cider as a wholesome children’s drink, but for most of the past thousand years, cider often contained as much alcohol as beer. Thanks to wild yeast present in the air, the natural sugar in apple juice begins to ferment (turn to...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 16, 2013 | Latest Posts, Living History
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on this day in 1919, marking the end of one era and the beginning of another. Outlawing the “manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors,” the amendment represented a victory for...
