Cooking and Food Preparation
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Feb, 21
Heat retention cooking
Heat Retention Cooking What would you do if the utility grid went down? How would you cook the food that might [...]
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Jan, 21
BestOVall Canning Company – Beans and All
BestOVall Canning Company – Beans and All The idea for this blog began with an intriguing label for BestOVall Canning Company, [...]
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Jan, 21
Newspaper Recipes 1878
Newspaper Recipes 1878 In an earlier post I shared a recipe for butter making and how to re-store aged butter. https://bcfoodhistory.ca/butter-first-bc-newspaper-recipe/ [...]
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Dec, 20
UBC Food Group: Cinnamon Buns, Ponderosa Cake and more
UBC Food Group: Cinnamon Buns, Ponderosa Cake and more. There is something about the short cool days of December that turns [...]
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Nov, 20
Ethel Mulvany Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook
Ethel Mulvany: Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook The taste of longing: Ethel Mulvany and her starving prisoners of war cookbook (2020) [...]
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May, 20
Pioneer Pudding and the Delights of Community Cookbooks
Pioneer Pudding and The Delights of Community Cookbooks When I turn to my collection of community cookbooks, there are so many [...]
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Mar, 20
Basic Home Cooking
Basic Cooking Skills Basic cooking skills never go out of date. "Our grandmothers and mothers [sic] learned how to cook by [...]
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Mar, 20
Seville Oranges and Dundee Marmalade
Seville Oranges and Dundee Marmalade Seville oranges Oranges do not have to be from Seville and marmalade doesn't have [...]
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Nov, 19
Canadian Stew and War Cake
Canadian Stew and War Cake What makes stew "Canadian"? Why was the name of War Cake in the First World War [...]
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Sep, 19
Cookie Recipes Set in Stone
Cookie recipes are set in stone - or are they? One way to preserve a favourite recipe is to have it [...]