Gardens
Ordering a Kitchen Garden (1989 ALHFAM,
Sturbridge)
18th-Century
English Kitchen Gardens, Parts I, II and III (Historical Gardener,
1992)
Weeds
or Wildings? (Historical Gardener 1993)
Ordering
a Kitchen Garden, Part II (2000 ALHFAM, Sturbridge)
This
Truck Doesn't Use Diesel (2001 ALHFAM, Williamsburg)
Lambs'
Ears (PAST MASTERS News, Spring 2005; ALHFAM Bulletin, Winter 2006)
Cooking
& Food
They
Did Too Eat Tomatoes! (History News 1991)
Holidays
and Their Foods (Delaware County Historical Society 1992)
Life
& Death of John Barleycorn (1993 ALHFAM, Minneapolis)
Preserving
Fruits & Vegetables (Fairfax, Virginia 1995)
You
May Preserve Them Good (Fraunces Tavern, New York City 1996)
Colonial
Cooking, When THEY Won't Let You Use the Fire (2002 ALHFAM, Princeton)
Women
Eighteenth-Century
Women (Tidy's Symposium 1995)
Motherhood
and More (Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia 1996)
Lewd,
Enormous and Disorderly Practices... (1996 ALHFAM, Houston)
Fire!
Fire! False Alarm? Elizabeth Drinker and the Joan-of-Arc Syndrome
(SE ALHFAM, Huntsville, Alabama 1998)
With
Respect to Women (Somerville, New Jersey 2000)
Children
Childhood
in Colonial Days? Let's Get Rid of Alice Morse Earle (MAALHFAM,
Landis Valley 1995)
Eighteenth-Century
Childhood (Radnor Historical Society, Pennsylvania 1998)
Books
Next
to Godliness.
Presents information about the various steps taken when doing laundry,
with material from period manuals. The activities have been confirmed
in diaries, newspapers, account books and other period publications.
$10.00 + $5.00 s/h. The book's debut took place at the MAALHFAM
conference at Peter
Wentz Farmstead on the weekend of March 29, 2014.
Blessed
be he that invented PUDDING. Presents 17th- and 18th-century
puddings, from a hare with a pudding in her belly, through sausage,
puddings boiled and baked, jelly, cream, blemange, and ends with
Solomon's Temple in Flummery. Plentiful documentation, glossary,
bibliography. $7.00 + $3.00 s/h
A
BAKER'S DOZEN of 18th-Century Grain Dishes
Period receipts (recipes) for porridge, bread, cake, and
puddings using grains that were grown in the Thirteen Colonies.
Directions for modern use are also included. (2007, available from
the author) $5.00 + $2.00 s/h
A
BAKER'S DOZEN of 19th-Century Grain Dishes
Same format as the 18th century paper above, with receipts
from the first half of the 19th century. (2007, available from the
author) $5.00 + $2.00 s/h
"...a
Work Highly of Use... Some 17th- and 18th-Century Considerations
of Various Foodstuffs"
This little book presents some of the theories used by housewives
when planning menus and meals. Gardening, cookery, and medical sources
from 1525 through 1769 have been used to provide information, often
in their own words. Glossary, bibliography, and period illustrations.
(Available from the author) $15.00 + $3.00 s/h
"...a
Work highly of Use..." Part II. "With Regard to the Virtues
of Plants..." and their efficacy in the treatment of ill health.
This is a companion to "...a Work highly of Use..." Some
17th- and 18th-Century Medical Considerations of Various Foodstuffs
(2006). People today are often aware that plants, like lavender,
were carefully grown for use. Others, less familiar, were collected
from the wild. Stinging nettle, considered an irritating weed now,
were considered valuable. There were also those that could not be
grown or foraged. They could be bought from apothecaries and merchants.
This slim volume provides works from period sources to explain the
importance of 71 plants. 103 pages; introduction; illustrations;
glossary; bibliography. Available only from the author. $15.00 +
$5.00 s/h.
Order
both "Works highly of Use" books and pay $25.00 + $4.00
s/h. Save!
"Kickshaws
and Other Small Sweets"
This book has been designed for today's use. It presents receipts,
updates, and shortcuts for preparing and serving little cakes, tarts,
and sweetmeats in the 18th-century style. $7.00 + $5.00 s/h.
"Lift
the Spirit"
This booklet provides receipts (recipes) for wines, spirits, and
alcoholic mixtures from 18th-century sources. None requires special
equipment and there is no need for a permit since the spirits are
all purchased. Sources, books for further information, glossary,
special notes, and period illustrations are included. (2006, available
from the author.) $5.00 + $2.00 s/h
"A
large, an useful, and a grateful Field." Eighteenth-Century
Kitchen Gardens in Southeastern Pennsylvania, the Use of the Plants,
and Their Place in Women's Work. This revision of Dr. Dillon's
doctoral dissertation is based on a combination of traditional archival
research and replication. The book is presented in a three-ring
binder for ease of use by historic gardeners and cooks. Plants,
with two or more period references, are presented on one side of
the page leaving plenty of space for notes, additional research
findings and more. Physical aspects of gardens and gardening as
well as processes for use are covered. (Available from UMI, Ann
Arbor, Michigan; rev. 2002, and available from the author) $45.00
+ $7.00 s/h
The Additions to the dissertation, "A large, an useful, and
a grateful Field" is ready! Several plants have been
added and there is new material for those already included. $10.00
+ $4.00 s/h.
".
. . the sincerest form of flattery." Information on
seven English "imitation" foods from 18th-century receipts
(recipes). Cost: $5.00 + $2.50 s/h. Available only from Clarissa
F. Dillon, 768 Buck Lane, Haverford, PA 19041.
Margaret
Hill Morris, Burlington, New Jersey 1804 Gardening Memorandum.
This book contains a facsimile of the last garden notes kept by
Mrs. Burlington during the last years of her life. Included are
notes transcribed, an essay discussing her life and activities,
an essay on gardening practices, a glossary, plant list, extensive
notes, and bibliography. (Ed. with Nancy V. Webster, American
Horticultural Series, No. 6, 1996, available from the author)
$20.00 + $4.00 s/h
"A
Most Comfortable Dinner," 18th-Century Receipts "to subsist
a Great Number of Persons at a Small Expense". Period
receipts (recipes) for people of "the common sort" collected
from newspapers, almanacs, medical and military sources, and other
such non-cookbooks. (1994, available from the author) $10.00 + $2.00
s/h
SO
SERVE IT UP: Eighteenth-Century English Foodways in Southeastern
Pennsylvania. A meal a month for a year. Dinner using period
receipts and actual menus where possible are presented. Meals range
from prison food to a dinner given by Benjamin Chew for the delegates
to the 1774 Continental Congress. Each chapter has its own bibliography
since each has a different focus on sources - for example, the February
chapter focuses on a birthday party given for George Washington
at Valley Forge, based on the 1777 accounts. $25.00 + $5.00 s/h
To
Comfort, to Strengthen, and to Heal: Receipt Book for John H. Mundall.
This collection of medicinal receipts provides a survey
of medical theory and practice in the greater Philadelphia region
during the 18th century. It also demonstrates the existence of a
network of both professional and lay people sharing receipts and
processes. In addition, there is material from London, Paris, and
Moscow, so it is far from a parochial collection. (Philadelphia,
2004, available from the author) Retail: $25.00 + $5.00 s/h; Wholesale: $20.00 + $5.00 s/h
Other
Papers
"Kitchen
Textiles in the Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries" (The
ALHFAM Bulletin, Spring 2009, "Fiber: Linen to Lumber";
originally published in Food History News)
"Loyalty
in Revolutionary Pennsylvania" (The ALHFAM Bulletin, Summer
2009, "Military and Civilian")
Is
There a Doctor in the House? No. (1986 ALHFAM, Guelph, Ontario)
"To
Make the Face Fair and Smooth" (1995 ALHFAM, Hiram, Ohio)
We've
Gone a Long Way, Baby: How Research and Interpretation of Colonial
Life Have Changed Since the Bicentennial (Chadds Ford Historical
Society 1996)
"Under
the Shadow of My Wing:" Did William Drinker have TB? (1997
ALHFAM, Staunton, Virginia)
"That
Art Might Help..." (CSA, Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria, Virginia)
Cows
Give Milk and Manure... (2004 ALHFAM, Dearborn, Michigan)
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