Flourless, Eggless, Foodless Recipes!

[JPK Huson 1863]

Donna's been having some ill luck here in the Food Forum lately, long story. It transpires food must be really, really, really past an expiration date before our poor owners do not have to deal with the mold. Eeeps. Hope committing bloggery on the topic is ok- which is I'd be pretty happy to have a recipe brought here. Bazillion, competing food sites out there. Anyway, sails are flapping in the breeze, maybe come up with new energy for Donna's great forum she's put so much work into.

Thought I'd look at era papers? The rule is pre-1923 cookbooks, thought I'd look at 1860-1865 newspapers on LoC. ' Recipe ', it transpires, doesn't mean you get anything you'd put on the table. Seems to have meant ' concoction ' for whatever purpose. Really enjoyed these!

Recipe for Camp Itch



Hair......



Lamps



I see somehow missed the recipe for Gingerbread Pudding below this!

Wounds?






Recipe For Disaster

 

[nitrofd]

Does anyone have a recipe for snake oil that isn't copyrighted?

 

[donna]

Annie great finds. Thanks so much for posting.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

When I saw the thread title, all I could think of was the old story, 'Stone Soup.'

 

[James B White]

Does anyone have a recipe for snake oil that isn't copyrighted?

The famous Clark Stanley Snake Oil, which put the phrase into popular culture for any quack medicine, is post war, but Wikipedia at least has the ingredients if not the amounts:

Stanley's snake oil — produced by Clark Stanley, the "Rattlesnake King" — was tested by the United States government in 1917. It was found to contain:[4]

• mineral oil
• 1% fatty oil (presumed to be beef fat)
• red pepper
• turpentine
• camphor

Stanley started marketing the product around 1879 and became a big hit at the 1893 Chicago exposition.

If you mean a wartime patent medicine, there were lots of different ones of course, each with their own formulations and claims and compositions--pills, salves, etc. Usually searching Google Books for the medicine name you want and "formula" will bring up something useful. For Brandreth's Pills, for example: https://books.google.com/books?id=w...v=onepage&q=brandreth's pills formula&f=false

 

[FarawayFriend]

When I saw the thread title, all I could think of was the old story, 'Stone Soup.'

My first thought was: vegan?
(And yes, I know, vegan is something different, but to me, "foodless" pretty much describes it, LOL)

and, @Mark F. Jenkins the "Stone soup" story may be old but I don't know it. Would you share it?

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

I thought the recipes were for gluten intolerant vegetarians upon first glance of the title!

Interesting reading! I've been pouring over Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery as its not copyrighted trying to find holiday recipes to reinvent...let's see how that goes in the coming weeks

 

[Allie]

Cantharides? Oh my! Cantharides is what is more familiarly known as Spanish Fly - the blister beetle, once considered to be an aphrodisiac. It's not; what it is, is an irritant which can kill you by blistering your insides. Putting it on your head sounds alarming.

We once bought a lot of improperly cured hay contaminated by blister beetles which killed a very promising young horse. Won a fair bit of money in court, but if you're fond of an animal, money doesn't make up for it. As you can imagine something that will kill a horse is not the best idea for people to consume.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

and, @Mark F. Jenkins the "Stone soup" story may be old but I don't know it. Would you share it?

Short version: Newcomers (in many versions, it's a group of soldiers) trick a town into providing food for them by insisting that they can make soup using just water and a stone... and maybe some carrots for flavor, and then maybe a bit of meat, and then, etc., etc., until it's actually soup.

 

[LoriAnn]

I thought the recipes were for gluten intolerant vegetarians upon first glance of the title!

Gluten intolerant vegans...definitely. They can eat fruit. And broccoli. But only organic!

Recipe for Camp Itch

And this is why I refuse to go camping.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

It's only 4:30 a.m. There is no filter to the brain at 4:30 a.m. . It's always so much wiser to come back later to ask about modern day camp itch.