Episode 45 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam & Bad Beer

-
Listen to "045 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam and Bad Beer" on Spreaker.

Link to the Episode:

 Who knew sugar and molasses would end up being about paper and beer?  I mean we could all see jam coming, but huh?  Anyway - had to make good jam explicit, because it will soon be bad jam.

But all those pictures I spoke of?

Sugar Cones:

dainty sugar cones
Ferry Farm and Kenmore Blog

making sugar cones
The Story of Sugar in 5 Objects

A sugar chest:

Ferry Farm and Kenmore Blog

Indigo:

2cm piece of indigo dye
photo by David Stroe

Prussian Blue (yup - the same stuff you find in acrylic paints at the Craft Store):

sample of Prussian / Berliner / Paris Blue
Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3
photo by Saalebaer


Different Sugars:






Molasses vs. Golden Syrup:

molasses

golden syrup


Related Media:

Brückle, Irene (1993) The Historical Manufacture of Blue-Colored Paper, The Paper Consercator, 17:1. 20-31.         LINK

The Story of Sugar in 5 Objects - British History Museum Blog - LINK

Ferry Farm and Kenmore - Boyhood Home of George Washington.  Archeological site, museum and Living History site: LINK

Golden Syrup History: British Food - A History LINK





Comments

  1. UnknownJune 4, 2022 at 5:51 AM

    Thanks to sharing with this respective legal personal injury information with us. We have huge expertise in personal practice area Food Poisoning Lawyer

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Margaret HardinAugust 25, 2022 at 11:38 AM

      I confess I find this particular display of the Web Crawling arts amusing

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Episode 65 Pudding & Cream & Cake that is Not a Lie

-
Listen to "065 Cream & Pudding & Cake that is Not a Lie" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode:  Episode 65 Pudding & Cream & Cake that is Not a Lie 18th Century, pre-revolutionary cake was generally a heavy dense thing compared to our modern, airy baking powder assisted cakes.  The only leavening was yeast and eggs.  And sugar?  Expensive.  Cakes were definitely less sweet.  If you were not wealthy, or it wasn't a wedding, birth or a death,  molasses and maple syrup (more generally known as "maple molasses" in the 18th century) would stand in.  And these too would tend to make your cake more dense as well. It was also common for cakes to be only slightly sweetened and then studded with dried or sugared fruit - think fruit cake.  Either the dense bricky stuff of English descent - or the new Italian star of the modern American winter holiday scene, panettone 18th century cake American cakes were largely thick, moist things that were lightly sweetened.
Read more

Episode 61 - 18th Century North American Rice – A History

-
Image
Listen to "061 18th Century North American Rice - A History" on Spreaker.  Link to the Episode: Episode 61 Rice has Arrived & It is Boiled Rice comes to America at least three separate times.  The first time is in the end of the 17th and the start of the 18th century, when it becomes an economic force in South Carolina - and later Georgia. Unlike later rice, this rice is came most recently from Africa.  The export rice that will build family fortunes is an Oryza sativa  or Asian sourced variety, but it was a variety that was grown previously in Africa - by Africans.   But there was also Oryza glaberrima a rice of entirely African extraction.  Unlike the O. sativa  rice, it grows more like other cereal - simply in the dirt, instead of in rice paddies that must be transplanted, flooded and drained. Navigational Alchemy View the world like a compass and astrolabe only sailor.  As someone who recently felt proud of herself for being able to go a single kilometer without loo
Read more

Episode 64 Milk & Butter Money

-
Image
Listen to "064 Milk & Butter Money" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 64 Milk & Butter Money The Dairy Maid arrives on the scene.  Unlike so many depictions of this or that type of colonial person or other, which tend to be overly idealized depictions, the representation of Dairy Maids is not too far off. She's going to be seen in a colonial dress (don't forget the cap or head wrap), and apron and carrying pails, hanging out with cows, or seated at a churn.  The main place they miss is giving her slim forearms and shoulders.  Between the milking,  the carrying and the churning, she would be a first pick for any arm-wrestling team.   Colonial Williamsburg did lots of the heavy lifting for me - and has excellent photographs of 18th century dairymaid dress , and the dairy out buildings - as well as longer explanations of how they functioned. Dairy House in Colonial Williamsburg Long eaves and slats - but no windows.  And a stone foundation. Dairy Cow and
Read more