Cooking and Food Preparation
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Sep, 21
Past Posts about Preserving Fruits and Vegetables
Past Posts about Preserving Fruits and Vegetables BC Food History Network has many posts about preserving fruits and vegetables. Here are [...]
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Mar, 21
The Nanaimo Bar
The Nanaimo Bar Who would have thought that Nanaimo Bars could be so controversial? We have always claimed Nanaimo Bars as [...]
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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
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/ Butter making was [...]
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Dec, 20
UBC Food Group: Cinnamon Buns, Ponderosa Cake and more
There is something about the short cool days of December that turns our thoughts to comfort foods – chili, soups, stews [...]
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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
Community Cookbook, Pioneer Pudding and Other Delights
When I turn to my collection of community cookbooks, there are so many possibilities to write a blog about but today [...]
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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Basic Cooking Skills Basic cooking skills never go out of date.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 [...]