What is this strange new blog? Well, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure yet. Right now, it's just a vague idea. You see, I'm a student in my last year of a BA in History. I want to continue my education on to a masters and possibly a PhD, but even though I love history, but I'm far more interested in the practical how's and what's of daily life in the past than I am in which person or political entity was in charge of a region at any given time. The history of the common people - what they ate, what they wore, what they did with their time - that's what fascinates me, and that's what this blog is going to be about. Kind of.
It will, at times, be a cookbook in the literal sense, as I intend to try out recipes from other times and various places and post both the recipes and the results here. There will be cooking recipes, probably dye recipes, soap, perfumes, maybe some other craftable items... I've always wanted to try making gunpowder...
Hopefully, it will be interesting enough to be worth your time, my dear reader.
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