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Regency Dish: Sesame Oil

By Anne | March 24, 2016 - 8:23 am |April 20, 2016 Regency Dish

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I ran across this interesting tidbit about sesame oil and had to do a little more digging: The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c, Continue →

Regency Dish: Preparing Meats

By Anne | March 18, 2016 - 9:47 am |April 14, 2016 Regency Dish, Regency Household

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Boiling, roasting, broiling and frying..The Female Economist (1810) provides detailed instruction on how a household might prepare most common types of meat and fish. Here are Continue →

Regency Economy: The Rural Figure (and Ag Report for March)

By Anne | March 16, 2016 - 9:06 am |March 30, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Economy

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Appearing in the March 1814 The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, this selection of “rural figures” was accompanied only by the Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Archery

By Anne | March 12, 2016 - 3:38 pm |March 26, 2016 Regency Pastimes

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Archery, once a critical skill for protection and hunting, fell out of fashion in England sometime in the 1500s to be resurrected en masse by the Continue →