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020 Wheat & Barley - Missing Real Bread & Beer
Season 1
Corn bread and Pumpkin beer - that was some serious suffering in the 17th century. Finally the competent farmers showed up in Pennsylvania to grow t…
5 years, 1 month ago
019 Butter & Cheese - Finally, Some Dairy We Can Sell
Season 1
How does milk work so you can take a liquid and make it in to solids?
This episode I talk about how liquid milk, which will just go bad on you in a se…
5 years, 2 months ago
018 Milk - New, Clabber, Sour & Cream
Season 1
Did you know milk fresh from the cow is 101F/38C ?
That's right, a "cold glass of milk" wasn't really a thing in 17th Century Colonial America. But p…
5 years, 2 months ago
017 Beef - It's Almost Never for Dinner
Season 1
I finally did it - I've covered all the thingies in my logo! Beef, Sugar and Iron (though that cowboy coffee pot will remain empty until the 18th Cen…
5 years, 3 months ago
016 The American Cow - Origin Story
Season 1
Another reason for America at all... Cows. Arable England was all out of room - and there were lots of casks of salt beef the Navy needed to buy. S…
5 years, 3 months ago
015 Pickles, Pie, Pottage & Stew - Meet the Rest of the Vegetable Crew
Season 1
Digging out the rest of the vegetables our 17th Century pre-Americans were eating. But really showing how vegetables are involved in the North-South…
5 years, 4 months ago
014 Pumpkins and Squash - What's the Difference?
Season 1
How and why the 17th century colonists made a distinction between pumpkin and squash. One was good and the other bad. Spoiler alert - those Puritan…
5 years, 4 months ago
013 Legumes - Old World & New
Season 1
Pease/Peas and Beans and the other ones. Unglamorous, but dependable, legumes have been with humans for a long time. Untangling Old World & New Wor…
5 years, 4 months ago
012 Herbs, Flowers & Berries - Not Worth a Thing
Season 1
We love our perishables now, but they were both welcome and considered worthless in the 17th Century. Is that dandelion food or medicine? What abou…
5 years, 5 months ago
011 Mercantilism - Do You Want Pirates?
Season 1
There are other things that cause pirates, but restrictive shipping rules, navigation acts and tariffs - enforced from over 8 weeks away definitely c…
5 years, 5 months ago