Posts Tagged ‘Victorian’
Make Your Own Victorian Candy
Now is the joyous season of the year when, if you are only acquainted with the precious secret of their preparation, you can make for yourself, with ten minutes’ work, candies more delicious than were purchased at the most expensive confectioners’. The latter never have this particular sort of candies for sale, because they will not keep. But, [...]
Venice Seed Cake
by C. H. K., from The Cottage Hearth, June 1877 The accompanying illustration shows a very effective style of icing or frosting combining richness of color and contrast, yet free from any deleterious ingredient in the matter of color. Proceed as follows: Bake a pound, sponge, or any other cake, in a large shallow tin; when baked and cold, [...]
Victorian Tempation! Devil and Bawd Tempt Gentleman!
A Victorian era stereoview scene of a most delicate kind! A leering devil watches with apparent delight as a disheveled woman encourages a man to recline on her wicker settee. This antique photograph is just one half of a stereoview. If you have a viewer, the scene comes alive! And you can actually own this very vintage photograph! It's [...]
The Distribution of Christmas Gifts
It undoubtedly adds to the pleasure of Christmas present-giving, and especially if there be young folks in the household, to adopt some original mode of presenting the gifts. The following suggestions as to the distribution of Christmas gifts might also be useful in connection with Sunday school or church Christmas festivals, when novelty in [...]
The Techno Chemical Receipt Book
No self-respecting Steampunk aficionado should be without a copy of THE TECHNO-CHEMICAL RECEIPT BOOK: Containing Several Thousand Receipts, Covering the Latest, Most Important and Most Useful Discoveries in Chemical Technology, and Their Practical Application in The Arts and The Industries. Edited chiefly from the German of Drs. Winckler, [...]
Plum Pudding and Other Receipts for Christmas
From Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, December 1859. Old English Christmas Plum Pudding — To make what is termed a pound pudding, take raisins well stoned, currants thoroughly washed, one pound each; chop a pound of suet very finely and mix with them; add a quarter of a pound of flour, or bread very finely crumbled, three ounces of sugar, [...]
