What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Millions 1857? 1178. To smoke Hams and Fish on a small scale. — Drive the ends out of an old hogshead or barrel; place this over a heap of sawdust of green hard wood, in which a bar of r ed -hot iron is buried; or take corn-cobs, [...]
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Food’s On: The Mess Hall & the CCC’s
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Words
Posted in Historic Folkways, Maritime history, Uncategorized, tagged baggy wrinkles, Blog de troops, Historyweaver's Blog, making baggy wrinkles, maritime history, maritime skills, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million, protecting sails, Schooner Zodiac on November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Million 1857? 1387. — Knowledge will aid you even in hand work ; and a good book is a safe refuge in idle hours. Inspiring Words from the Blog de Troops First off, inspiring words came from all the people who commented during the Blog de Troops for [...]
WF, Civil War Surgeon & My Greatgrandfather
Posted in Civil War, Family history, Uncategorized, tagged 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 11th Regiment, 19th century medicine, Battle of Gettysburg, care of wounds, Civil War, Civil War Journals, Civil War pocket journals, Family history, Fort Bellingham, George Pickett, Historyweaver's Blog, Infantry, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million, Pickett House, Union surgeons, WF Osborn on April 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million1857? 378. To prevent Wounds from mortifying.–Sprinkle sugar on them. The Turks wash wounds with wine, and sprinkle sugar on them. Obstinate ulcers may be cured with sugar dissolved in a strong decoction of walnut leaves. Echoes of my greatgrandfather I made a decision today. I took a [...]
Laughing Your Way Through WWII
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil Defense, Family history, history, Historyweaver's Blog, humour, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million, researching history, WW II, WWII Homefront on April 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for Million 1857? 2555. Every one of these suggestions may be regarded as the centre of many others, which the earnest mind can not fail to discover. Laughter the Best Civil Defense? Having gone through the orange warning system and duck tape after 9-11, Americans tend to look back on [...]
Hydroponic Marriages
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1850 romance, Bloomers, courting in mid-19th century, hydropahtic marriages, lonely hearts ads, matrimony, Spiritualism, The Water Cure, women's rights on March 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 2685. No union should be undertaken until both of the contacting parties are fully acquainted with each other’s disposition. Funny about doing research for one subject, you often stumble on something unknown. I knew of the Bloomers, some hint that families such as the Louisa May [...]
#SAMPLE SUNDAY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #samplesunday, boxing in CCCs, Civilian Conservation Corps, historical fiction, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million, Tree Soldier on February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What’s in Mrs. Hales Receipts for the Million 1857? 678. An Excellent Pen Wiper for Steel Pens –Fill a short wide-mouth vial with shot, the smaller the better. When ever it is necessary to clean the pen, rub it up and own in the shot. This much more effectual than cloth wipers, and the shot [...]
Guest Author M.M. Bennetts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 19th century spies, British spies, Earl of Myddleton, George Cockbur, M.M Bennets, Of Honest Fame, Patrick O'Brian's Dr. Maturin, spies, Trafalgar, War of 1812, Wellington's Spies on December 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 2585. Never tattle, nor repeat in one society any scandal or personal matter you hear in another. Guest Writer M.M. Bennetts, author Of Honest Fame Wonderful thing, the internet. You can meet the most fabulous people on-line, some of them writers. They become your friends and [...]
Some Things Never Change
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abolition, Alta California newspapers, Do Something Party. Tea Party, finding ancestors, historical fiction, history, Know Something Party, Know-Nothing Party, Merchantile Library, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million, researching history, rush of words, San Francisco, San Francisco 1854, San Francisco politics, writing on September 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hales Receipts for the Million 1857? 4143 & 4144. There is such a rush of all other kinds of words in our days … There are vain words, and idle words, and hasty words, and spiteful words, and silly words, and empty words, and profane words, and boisterous words, and warlike words. [...]
The Forgotten Anniversary: April 9th 1940
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1940, April 9, Edge of Darkness, German occuption of Norway, how to kill rats, Norway WW II, The Jossing Affair, The Moon is Down, WW II on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 326. To destroy Rats. – Cut a number of corks or a piece of sponge as thin as sixpences; stew them in grease and place them in the way of the rats. They will greedily devour this delicacy, and will die of indigestion. There are a [...]
Drawing Tea and Research Plans III
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 19th century cooking, choosing a tea pot, historical fiction, hob, making tea, making tea 19th century, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million, organizing your research, research planning, researching history, tea pots, using primary sources, using secondary sources, writing on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 2078. Why will a black teapot make a better tea than a bright metal one, if it is set on the hob to “draw”? 2079 Because the black teapot will absorb heat plentifully from the fire and keep the water hot; whereas a bright metal teapot [...]
