Day: January 26, 2016

Feeling under the weather?…recipes from the collection

A few helpful hints and remedies to get you through the cold and flew season.

Sick Child Picture - Keepers of the Hearth

Image from Keepers of the hearth : based on records, ledgers and shared recipes of the families connected with Mill Prong House, Edinborough Road, Hoke County, North Carolina.

Cough Syrup - Buffet Benny's

Cough Syrup from Buffet Benny’s family cookbook : recipes, stories & poems from the Appalachian Mountains.

How to Keep Well - Much Pleasure

How to Keep Well from A source of much pleasure : receipts old and recipes new, 1785-1949.

A Refreshing Drink in a Fever - Keepers of the Hearth

A Refreshing Drink in a Fever from Keepers of the hearth : based on records, ledgers and shared recipes of the families connected with Mill Prong House, Edinborough Road, Hoke County, North Carolina.

Food for the Sick - Henderson Cookbook

Food for the Sick from The Henderson cook book.

Blackberry Cordia (For Upset Stomach) - Buffet Benny's

Blackberry Cordial from Buffet Benny’s family cookbook : recipes, stories & poems from the Appalachian Mountains.

To Cure a Cold - Keepers of the Hearth

To Cure a Cold from Keepers of the hearth : based on records, ledgers and shared recipes of the families connected with Mill Prong House, Edinborough Road, Hoke County, North Carolina.

Cure for a Bad Cold or Cough - The Young Housewife's Counselor and Friend

Cure for a bad Cold or Cough from The young housewife’s counsellor and friend : containing directions in every department of housekeeping; including the duties of wife and mother.

 

A blue wedding dress that transcended white

“In 1875, R.J. Reynolds founded his tobacco company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and in 1905, at age 55, he married 25-year-old Mary Katharine Smith in her nearby hometown of Mount Airy….

“Her navy dress was a departure from the normative practices of the class into which she was marrying.

“But a white wedding dress would not have been a practical choice…. Immediately after the ceremony, the Reynoldses took a train to Greensboro and then boarded another train to New York City, where the Baltic awaited them, an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line that would late commission the Titanic. They landed in Liverpool, traveled to London, and began a tour of Europe’s great cities….

“Her navy dress was also a sign she could afford more than a white gown: She could afford Europe in the form of the ‘Grand Tour,’ a required undertaking from the nineteenth century for wealthy Americans…. It was a kind of ‘finishing.’

“Navy blue signified not her pristine and protected removal from the world, as white would have, but her status as a traveler. It stood for a geographic mobility that mirrored her social mobility…. The Grand Tour was a sign of the elite position she would claim on their return.”

— From “A Navy Wedding Dress and a Voyage” by Susan Harlan in Deep South (May 2015)