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Regency Fashion: Receipt for Whitening Straw for Ornamental Use

By Anne | August 20, 2020 - 7:28 am |August 27, 2020 Regency Fashion, Regency Household

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The following receipt for whitening straw for ornamental use, like with bonnets, comes from A New System of Practical Domestic Economy (1823): The customary mode Continue →

Regency Household: Raising Potatoes to a Very Great Advantage

By Anne | April 16, 2020 - 12:50 pm |May 6, 2020 Regency Dish, Regency Household, Regency Pastimes

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I feel blessed that while at home, I have enough of a patch of dirt to try my hand at gardening. I had planned on Continue →

Regency Dish: A Bill of Fare for June and Umble Pyes

By Anne | June 28, 2019 - 6:04 am |July 12, 2019 Regency Dish

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And here is the recipe for A Lumber Pye, which is apparently the same or similar to an umble pye: Both are from The Continue →

Regency Dish: A Cheap and Excellent Currie

By Anne | April 4, 2019 - 6:42 am |April 24, 2019 Regency Dish

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Appeared in the April 1809 Lady’s Monthly Museum. I found a few additional curry recipes in A New System of Domestic Cookery: Founded Upon Principles Continue →