How to Cook All the Birds, 1849

"The Poultry of the World," 1858, a.k.a. dinner"Take a fine large olive, stuffed with capers and anchovies, and preserved in the best oil, and put it into a fig pecker; after cutting off its head and legs, put the fig pecker into the body of...

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How to Make Good Coffee, 1895

Currier & Ives, 1881 (Library of Congress)"COFFEE THAT IS GOOD. To make good coffee is apparently not so simple as it may seem, if general results count for anything... There is no better stimulant in the morning than a delicious cup of...

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How to Make an Eel Pie, 1465

Konrad Gesner, Historiaeanimalium (1604) "Boil for a while an eel which has been skinned and cut up in pieces. Pass almond juice, with verjuice and rose water, through a sieve into a bowl. It would likewise not be ill advised to make it...

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How to Manage Your Anger, c. 1150

British Library,Egerton MS 747, f. 83rc. 1280-1310"One who is inclined to wrath should take rose and less sage and pulverize them. When the wrath is rising in him, he should hold this powder to his nostrils. The sage lessens the wrath, and...

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