Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Old-timey food and drink
Starving archivists: delve into the digitized stacks over at Michigan State's Feeding America project. The project has scanned a number of old-timey cookbooks with recipes involving things like flummery (fermented oatmeal), isinglass (glue prepared from fish bladders), and calipee (the part of the turtle attached to the shell). I'm getting hungry just writing this. Wash everything down with any number of absinthe-based cocktails featured in 1917's The Ideal Bartender.
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nice dude, nnnnnnice. i was curious as to what isinglass was. it's used to take the cloudiness out of wine and is available at homebrew supply stores.
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