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In the Swan's Shadow

http://theebonswan.blogspot.com/

Focusing mainly on topics of interest to American Civil War living historians, reenactors, or history buffs in general, this also has a habit of wandering onto seemingly random topics such as my jewelry business and anything else that crosses my mind, then my keyboard.

Added on: Aug 17th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Melissa
Listed in: History Culture
Tags: women food history etsy civil war sca

Recent Posts

Pompion Pye - ca. 1720

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 17:48 in recipes, holidays, cooking, Autumn, cookery

Pay attention, kids - this isn't your Granny's pumpkin pie. This has a tentative date of 1720, but this sounds a bit older to me. At any rate you're looking at post-Columbian exchange era. Comments in brackets are my own. "Tak...
Syllabub - 1686

Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 10:41 in recipes, holidays, cooking, cookery, colonial williamsburg

Syllabub is a drink that is seen very little on modern tables. Generally speaking, syllabub is a cross between a drink and a dessert, though in centuries past it was more on the "drink" end of the spectrum than today's renditions of it, which u...
Pompion Sause - 1671

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 14:39 in recipes, cooking, augusta, cookery

The food in question here is pumpkins, the archaic spelling being pompions. I remember having this dish while staying with my host family in France (which no, was NOT that long ago!). "The Housewives' manner is to slice them when ripe an...
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Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, halloween, west overton

Further information can be found on the West Overton Museums website. The place looks fabulous, hope to see you there!...
Period Chocolate!

Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 21:52

Here is a video showing a foodways interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg making chocolate. I haven't quite gotten insane enough to want to try confectionery arts, but he does make it look easy! Course where I'd find a chocolate stone is beyond me, b...
Operation Market Garden Trailer

Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 14:48 in World War II, video, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, re-enacting, reenacting, west overton

This is the trailer to a video that will be finished hopefully this fall. All footage was shot at the Operation Market Garden reenactment weekend. It looks incredible so far. He and his crew worked very hard all weekend...I was watching. :) ...