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Regency Household: Receipts for Cleaning Spots from Fabric

By Anne | April 20, 2021 - 6:42 am |April 30, 2021 Regency Customs, Regency Fashion, Regency Household

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Recipes and instructions taken from The Cook’s Complete Guide on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance (1810).

Regency Dish: Food for Infants

By Anne | April 2, 2021 - 7:01 am |April 8, 2021 Regency Customs, Regency Dish, Regency Health and Medicine

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We discovered some receipts for different infant food, as well as some other pointers for infant and children diets that we thought were interesting. The Continue →

Regency Dish: Pigeons with Rice

By Anne | September 22, 2020 - 6:48 am |October 6, 2020 Regency Dish

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From the 1803 edition of The Art of Cookery. I have lived in enough major metros to have some strong feelings about the thought of Continue →

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 →