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Jas. Townsend’s 18th Century Cooking

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Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation, Recipes
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...one of the most prolific and accomplished YouTubers I’ve encountered. His cooking videos feature professional lighting and sound (rare in the YouTube universe) and look like something PBS would (should?) make. And Townsend has produced over 500 videos giving Kelly and I a chance to spend many evenings catching up on the finer points of pemmican, hardtack and pickled smelt. Neither of us are historical reenactors, though Kelly sometimes accuses me...

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Beans 101 (Return of Bean Friday!)

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Bean Fest, Food, How-to
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...beans to soup. Maybe to a ready-made soup, to beef it up. Or maybe you’re cooking a soup from scratch. Just drop the beans in at the end, so they have long enough to warm up. Pour off the cooking broth from your homemade beans and drink that as soup. Or puree cooked beans into a nice thick soup, adding water if necessary. Put your beans on toast. Sound unappealing? Then change the name: Crostini. See how marketing works? Toast up some stale bread...

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Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

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Food, Food Preservation
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...that most people haven’t attempted since the pre-Betty Crocker era: cheesemaking, home coffee roasting, bacon curing, bread baking, jam and exotic projects like making your own nocino and toothpaste. One of the perks of teaching at the IDT is getting to sit in on some of the other classes. The coffee roasting class changed my life. Now, every morning, I look forward to fresh coffee I roasted myself in a Whirley-Pop Popcorn maker. This past weeken...

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A Homemade Mattress?

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Design, Domesticus
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...the wool. It took her about 6 hours to fill the mattress. 3) Here is a webpage, in French, showing the mattress making process. Lots of useful pictures. I have to run it through Google Translate for more clues. 4) Do not fall for the eHow result if you search for how to make a wool mattress. It gets off to a great start by recommending you use glue, rather than stitching, to construct your mattress tick . (They call the tick a “fabric sheet pouch...

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