BREAD PUDDING.—Take light white bread and cut into slices. Put into a pudding shape a layer of any sort of pr serves, then a slice of bread and repeat until the mould is three parts full. Pour over all a pint of warm milk, in which four well-beaten eggs have been mixed; cover the mould with a piece of linen, and place it in a saucepan with a little boiling water, let it boil twenty minute., and serve with pudding sauce.

The What-not; or Ladies' Handybook
1861


We made this today and I got a thumbs up from all of the children.  I made it exactly as described in the recipe, except that I baked in in the oven in a water bath. I used white sandwich bread, which i normally wouldn't use but was limited by what Target had at the moment.  I think that it would be very simple to make it over a campfire.  We'll be trying it in the spring.

POTATO SALAD.

Boil some potatoes with the rind on until nicely done, then pare and cut them into slices about the thickness of a penny, and let them remain until nearly cold, then add three table spoonfuls of vinegar and two of oil, with a little salt and pepper. Serve with cold meat.

 

The What-not; or Ladies' Handybook

1861

Macaroni

MACCARONI [sic] MILANESE.

 

Throw the maccaroni [sic] in boiling water with some salt in it. Let it have plenty of room, and be well covered with water. Boil it twenty five minutes; drain it in a colander; then put it in a deep dish in alternate layers of macaroni and grated cheese ; lay on the top slices of fresh butter, pour over it milk and cream, enough to cover the whole, and place the dish in an oven where it can cook at the top and bottom equally. In fifteen or twenty minutes it will be done. Serve it up immediately.

 

The What-not; or Ladies' Handy- Book

1861

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=pFYEAAAAQAAJ&pg


This is my husband's favorite way to have mac and cheese.

Girl's Brown Dress

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/collections/online/image.cfm?ImageFile=/VoyagerImages/Z017/Z01742/Z0174290.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:37055

Sortie Cap 1858

I love the look of the sortie cap from Godey's magazine.  I especially love the fact that this pattern is so simple that I could use a peroid magazine article and reproduce it exactly as a woman reading Godey's Magazine in the 1858. 







The cap is very easy.  Even a new knitter can do it.  There is a great tutorial at:

http://www.koshka-the-cat.com/sortie.html

and even more pictures at:

http://historyknits.blogspot.com/2011/01/godeys-sortie-cap.html



To make the rosette I cut lengths of ribbon and gathered them one at a time onto a thread.  The I tied the ends of the thread and that gathered the ribbon.  Then I pressed the ribbon very flat. 
http://www.thinkbowtique.com/how-to-make-5-petal-flower.html


Children's caps for sale at:

http://www.aldridgeclothiers.com/#!shop-online/vstc1=outerwear



(Can't knit?  I couldn't until recently.  Everything you need to know for this pattern can be learned at

http://www.knittinghelp.com/   )


Although you can't really tell, my darling daughter is wearing her sortie cap in this picture.