Teaching Hands-on History I

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Millions 1857? 1079. Method of making excellent Butter from the Milk of Cows fed upon Turnips – Let the bowls, either lead or wood, be kept constantly clean, and well scaled with boiling water before using. When the...

Saying Goodbye, but Seeding the Future

I have always loved history since I was a girl. I grew up on pioneer tales from the family going West, a great-grandfather who was a surgeon at the Battle of Gettysburg, another great-grandfather an amateur geologist in the Hayden Expedition that scientifically...

Outlandish Ways with Dyes

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 279. Dyeing.- Occasionally, when colored articles of silk, wool, or cotton have been cleaned, their color requires to be made deeper; at other times, it may be desirable to change the color altogether,...

A System of Nails

What’s in Mrs. Hale Receipt for the Million, 1857? 646. Towels — Towels are made of diaper or huckabuck, of a quality adapted to the uses to which they are applicable. They should be one yard long and about ten or twelve nails wide. The best are bought...

Butter Me Up

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Million 1857? 1308. Butter.– Keep your pails, churn. and pans sweet. In winter warm the pans and churns with hot water, in summer cool them with cold. Keep your milk in summer where it is cool and airy, in winter...

Washing in the New Year

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 212. To take  Spots off Cloths, Stuffs, Silk, Cotton, and Linen –Take two quarts of spring water, put in it a little fine white potash, about the quantity of a walnut, and a lemon cut in slices;...

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