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Carrots Deep-Fried in Suet 18th Century Cooking

Carrots Deep-Fried in Suet 18th Century Cooking Get Your Copy of the Cookbook Here! Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking...

Leaven 18th Century Breads, Part 4.

This is part 4 of our bread series where we start to investigate leavening, leaven, sourdough and yeast. This is getting more complicated by the second. Check o...

Baking Historic Mixed Grain Breads. 18th Century Breads Part 2

The second part of our bread series that is part of our 18th century cooking series. We concentrate in this episode on all the interesting mixed grain breads an...

Macaroni - A Recipe From 1784 18th Century Cooking

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Ship's Bisket - Hard Tack 18th Century Breads, Part 1.

Bread Part 1 - Ship's Bisket AKA Hardtack Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking Help support the channel with PayPal Help...

Pemmican Episode 4 - 18th Century Cooking

This is the final episode of our 4 part series on Pemmican, the ultimate survival food. In this episode we show you how to make Rousseau, using Pemmican. Check ...

Pemmican - The Ultimate Survival Food - Episode 3 - 18th Century Cooking

This is part 3 of a 4 part series on Pemmican, the ultimate survival food, in which we make Rubaboo. Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @1...

History Beneath our Parking Lots

An interview with professional reenactor Matt Douthitt Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking Help support the channel wit...

Pemmican Part 2 - Let's Prepare It! 18th Century Cooking

This is part 2 of a 4 part series on Pemmican, the ultimate survival food. Make sure to check out our website at and our cooking blog at the links below. Check ...

A Dish for the Common-Folk in the 18th Century

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Corn And Eel Succotash! 18th Century Cooking

Eels! That's right, eels! We're making a version of fall succotash based on a reference in the travel journal of George Loskiel from 1794. This recipe, as well ...

Pemmican - The Ultimate Survival Food. 18th Century Cooking

Pemmican - The Ultimate Survival Food. 18th Century Cooking This is the start of a 4 part series on Pemmican the ultimate survival food. Check out our new 18th ...

200 Year Old Peach Recipe 18th Century Cooking

Today we have a recipe from 1787 for a Peach Tart. This dish comes from "Cookery and Pastry" by Susanna Maciver. This one was an experiment, we hope you enjoy i...

Little Miss Muffet Ate This. 18th Century Cooking

Curds and Whey Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking Help support the channel with PayPal Help support the channel with P...

On The Trail- A Simple Recipe For You. 18th Century Cooking

Today's recipe is a simple meal meant for cooking while on the march or on the trail. These are "Norfolk Dumplings" and it comes from the Primitive Cookery book...

To Fry Beef Steaks 18th Century Cooking

Steaks Fried in Ale - A Recipe from The Art of Cookery Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking Help support the channel wit...

Turning Beets into Pancakes - A Recipe from 1803

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Growing Tobacco In Early America 18th Century

Today Justin Filipowski from George Washington's Mount Vernon sits down with Jon to talk about the tobacco trade in early America. Mount Vernon's YouTube Channe...

Rabbit Over an Open Fire! 18th Century Cooking

Rabbit Over an Open Fire! 18th Century Cooking Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking Help support the channel with PayPal...

Sanitation and Brewing in the 18th Century--Dirty Beer

Sanitation and Brewing in the 18th Century--Dirty Beer Check out our new 18th Century Cooking Instagram Channel @18thcenturycooking Help support the channel wit...