This recipe comes from Martin Luther Holbrook’s 1888 book Eating for Strength, a book designed to promote what the author considered healthy eating and drinking habits. A physician and health reformer, Holbrook believed that avoiding meat and stimulants such as alcohol and tobacco was essential to good health. His book provides a variety of vegetarian and alcohol-free recipes such as this one, alongside the latest “scientific” nutrition advice of the day.
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This Victorian ice cream recipe comes from Agnes Marshall, sometimes known as the “Queen of Cream” for her contributions to ice cream. In addition to publishing books of recipes, Agnes Marshall ran a cooking school, edited a weekly magazine, marketed and sold foodstuffs and kitchenware, and even designed some of her own equipment such as ice cream freezers.
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This recipe comes from Sarah Tyson Rorer’s first cookbook, the Philadelphia Cook Book, published a few years after she opened the Philadelphia Cooking School in 1883.
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This recipe comes from The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, a fundraising cookbook first sold at the 1886 Woman Suffrage Festival and Bazaar in Boston to raise money for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.
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After playing a game of tennis in a corset and heavy skirts, who wouldn’t want to eat cake?
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History in the Making 