Historical pantry goals What made an ideal 19th century pantry? George Champlin Mason wrote about updating a pantry to meet then-modern standards in ‘The Old House
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How was food, china, flatware, and glassware stocked, stored, prepared and served on 19th century passenger ships like the Titanic, the Majestic, the Lusitania, the Olympic,
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A pantry article excerpted from June 10, 1890 ‘Good Housekeeping’ Vol II No. 4 “There are a few departments of housekeeping in which women should take
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An early 20th century camp wagon portable pantry is the Victorian version of the modern travel trailer and motor home. American interest in recreational camping, and
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Cardinal Wolsey’s pantry and kitchen at Cardinal College (now known as Christ Church College, Oxford) date back to 1525. They were built when he was one
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Emily Dickinson’s cousin Louise Norcross describes Emily writing in the pantry. “And I know that Emily Dickinson wrote most emphatic things in the pantry, so cool
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What did the Wright brothers cook from their extremely well-organized pantry? The Wright brothers spent months, from late August to December of 1901, 1902, and 1903,
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This recipe for lemon pie dates to an 1889 White House cookbook where it appears as “LEMON PIE. No. 1. (Superior)” attributed to the (now long
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Don’t let those pretty tea towels and vintage kitchen towels just sit in the drawer. These functional and beautiful kitchen towels can do everything a paper
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The most fantastic fictional farmhouse pantry is found in Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree. The pantry is key to the plot in the book, and she
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This long-lost pantry cupboard was preservation-worthy. Is it truly gone, or was it salvaged? The Kingsley-Cole house of Rome, New York, was built in the 1840’s
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We’ve gathered up some pantry boxes, pantry baskets, and other antique pantry containers in clay, wicker, wood, and glass to show you what pantry organization looks
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