Domestic Medicine

25/12/2024

The history of sugar plums focusing on the medicinal types of sugar plums.

The history of sugar plums traces their evolution from medicinal candies in Tudor times to a broader array of treats in the Victorian era. Originally used for digestion and wellness, their role shi…

24/12/2024

Really interesting study about how we originally cooked with grains.

"The results support a hypothesis that archaeobotanists and archaeologists elsewhere in Northern Europe also have proposed after discovering remains of grains cooked into porridge and gruel: that the first farmers did not live on water and bread but rather on water and gruel, alongside berries, nuts, roots, and meat."

Neolithic Scandinavians ate water and gruel, not bread December 23, 2024 Ancient Early Neolithic farmers in what is now Denmark grew cereals and used grinding stones, but not to grind the cereals into flour to make bread. A new study has revealed that 5,500-year-old grinding stones discovered at the...

23/12/2024

Another wonderful post by Christopher Monk.

Here’s my re-imagining of the famous carol The Twelve Days of Christmas.

23/12/2024

It's not to late to whip this up for the holidays.

Both my husband and I grew up in families that really kept Christmas well. He enjoys decorating, baking, and concocting as much as I do, so it was something we wanted to recreate for our kids. I …

22/12/2024

Excited to go caroling tonight!

This will be the last of my posts on holiday traditions before we get back to business. I was recently inspired to do one of my deep dives and discover a bit more about the term “wassail.& #82…

22/12/2024

Lovely

04/12/2024

Here is the second installment in our series focusing on gastrointestinal health which will hopefully be useful to you when we dive into the historical remedies.

Historically you will see a great deal of attention paid to the heat of digestion. It had various names in traditional medical systems. Greek medicine uses the term ignis while in Ayurveda it is ca…

26/11/2024

Getting ready to use my beautiful lion's mane from Rot's Bounty Gourmet Fungi LLC .

26/11/2024

Threw this post together really quickly for a friend who has several pumpkins and wants to make this as a gluten free dessert this week. To make it gluten free, just use the ingredients in parentheses.

You will want to begin processing your pumpkins by cutting them in fourths and cleaning out the insides. Be sure to save some seeds for next years garden. Put them face down on a rack in a roaster …

23/11/2024

Tomorrow is Stir Up Sunday. I find myself really needing the comfort of traditions this year. I will post a few of my favorite in the comments!

Stir Up Sunday is the beginning of the Christmas season for our household. The last Sunday before Advent is the traditional day for beginning holiday feast preparations in many UK homes. This tradi…

22/11/2024

So interesting to watch.

How to make linen from flax. A step by step demonstration of how linen is made using traditional Scotch Irish cottage industry methods. Flax and linen farmin...