I baked bone-shaped hazelnut dog treats for my dog’s thirteenth birthday on Valentine’s Day. She loves these hazelnut dog treats! Continue reading Healthy Hazelnut Dog Treats
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DIY Rain Skirt
Some years ago I sewed a rain skirt. It’s so practical that I wear it very often. A rain skirt is useful for hiking, bicycling, for rainy days and if one owns a water crazy dog! 😀 Continue reading DIY Rain Skirt
DIY Christmas Twig Lights
The 15th project of my Advent Calendar is easy, inexpensive and makes the room cozy on a cold winter night – or all year round! 😀 Continue reading DIY Christmas Twig Lights
DIY Hiking Skirt
I sewn another comfortable DIY hiking skirt – yay! 😀 And it’s also a refashion: The hiking skirt was a cotton scarf before. Continue reading DIY Hiking Skirt
DIY Backless Crochet Top
Some years ago, I crocheted this beige backless summer top. Continue reading DIY Backless Crochet Top
DIY Hiking Wrap Skirt
I’ve sewn this beige cotton wrap skirt some years ago. It’s so comfortable that I often wear it as hiking skirt. Continue reading DIY Hiking Wrap Skirt
Victorian Salzburger Nockerl And Kaiserschmarrn Recipe – Historical Food Fortnightly
For the Historical Food Fortnightly challenge 19 – Ethnic Foods, I made two Austrian desserts: Salzburger Nockerl and Kaiserschmarrn. Both recipes are original Victorian recipes: from the 1840s and 1850s. I’ve often made modern Salzburger Nockerl and Kaiserschmarrn, but I’ve never made the original historical recipes – so I was curious how they’d taste compared to the modern recipe versions. 😀 Continue reading Victorian Salzburger Nockerl And Kaiserschmarrn Recipe – Historical Food Fortnightly
Hardtack As Dog Food – Historical Food Fortnightly
Hardtack, also called ship’s biscuit, is a hard cracker made with flour and water. It was used on long sea voyages, and soldiers in the American Civil War were sometimes supplied with hardtack rations instead of flour. But hardtack is also an early form of dog food: ‘Dog-biscuit is a hard and well-baked mass of coarse, yet clean and wholesome flour, of an inferior kind to that known as sailors’ biscuit; and this latter substance, indeed, would be the best substitute’ (The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 1841, p. 244).
Hardtack will keep much longer than flour (in museums there’s still hardtack which is over hundred years old! 😮 )- so it’s my entry for the Historical Food Fortnightly challenge 12 (food preservation). Continue reading Hardtack As Dog Food – Historical Food Fortnightly
History Of Dog Food
Since millennia, humans and dogs lived together – dogs are the oldest domesticated animal. In ancient times, dogs guarded flocks and farms. Later they were used as hunting dogs. And especially since the 18th century and Victorian era, lap dogs became fashionable. So there’s a long history of dog food. For many centuries, dogs were just fed with barley flour soaked in milk or broth. Then in the 19th century, the first dog biscuits factory opened. But the Edwardians thought dog biscuits weren’t an ideal food: meat mixed with flour or bread and vegetables was considered the best dog food. Continue reading History Of Dog Food
Victorian (1850s) Graham Bread Recipe – Historical Food Fortnightly
Victorian Graham bread made from scratch – so easy to make and so delicious!
Graham bread is named after reverend Sylvester Graham, who invented the bread in 1829. Victorians preferred white bread bought at the bakery because homemade brown bread was considered backward – a bread eaten by poor peasants. In the Victorian era, Graham bread was promoted as ‘health bread’ since Victorian white bread wasn’t made with white flour but with bleached whole wheat flour. Continue reading Victorian (1850s) Graham Bread Recipe – Historical Food Fortnightly