The History of American Food - 054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not Sweet

054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not Sweet

08/03/22 • 33 min

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Orange - a strange word, and important fruit - not just in the kitchen, but as a political symbol as well.
Come hear about it all, and some mythbusting about the origins of marmalade - and the defense of onion marmalade as well.
Link to Townsends recipe for Orange Fool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2AG545WIsg
Link to Orange Syllabub with the Kitchn (I would suggest orange flower water instead of the rose water): https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-orange-syllabub-166177
Feel free to do an orange liqueur tasting! Choose from the very many options.
Cointreau
Triple Sec
Grand Manier
Curaçao (blue or clear - either is fine)
Bols Orange Liqueur
Pierre Ferrand
Gran Gala
DeKuyper
Combier
Clement Creole Shrubb
Naranja Liqueur
and so on...
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight

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Mary Mary, Quite Contrary , How does your Garden Grow?
Or more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work?
Gardens in 18th century America run the gamut from pure survival to combining pleasure and purpose, to being show pieces entirely - Just like the Dowager Lady Grantham's
Most Important (and very readable) Book for this Episode:
Leighton, Anne. _American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: For Use or Delight_
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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054.5 Bonus Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it Back

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What better time to explain scurvy (a very gross disease) - than right after my paean to the 18th century orange?
Learn it's causes, what it looks like, how to prevent and how to cure it - including, eat your cabbage!
This is the first in what will be an ongoing series in the diseases of deprivation that haunt us humans. Stay tuned for the greatest hits that includes things like pellagra, rickets and goiter! And become much more grateful for some of the food additives and cooking rules that are part of our daily lives - now that food prep is considered "so easy anyone can do it".
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood