BC Food History
Cooking and Food Preparation
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/ [...]
UBC Food Group: Cinnamon Buns, Ponderosa Cake and more. There is something about the short cool days of December that turns [...]
Ethel Mulvany: Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook The taste of longing: Ethel Mulvany and her starving prisoners of war cookbook (2020) [...]
Pioneer Pudding and The Delights of Community Cookbooks When I turn to my collection of community cookbooks, there are so many [...]
Basic Cooking Skills Basic cooking skills never go out of date. "Our grandmothers and mothers [sic] learned how to cook by [...]
Seville Oranges and Dundee Marmalade Seville oranges Oranges do not have to be from Seville and marmalade doesn't have [...]
Canadian Stew and War Cake What makes stew "Canadian"? Why was the name of War Cake in the First World War [...]
Cookie recipes are set in stone - or are they? One way to preserve a favourite recipe is to have it [...]
Chop suey and ginger beef - Chinese Canadian cuisine? Almost all small Canadian towns have a Chinese restaurant. "Chop Suey Nation" [...]
Wild Game Cookery A recent CTV news item suggests government incentives to use more food from the land, or “country food”.[i] [...]