Christmas Candies - bonbons antique recipes

Christmas Candies

1892 - The foundation for nearly all cream candies is fondant, and when one has succeeded in making that well, little trouble will be experien...

Loaf Cake - antique recipes

Loaf Cakes

Choice Fig Cake. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of milk, four eggs, three cupfuls of flour, one-half cup of cornstarc...

Victorian Etiquette Notes

Etiquette Notes – December 1892

It is a very great mistake to think you may receive an invitation to an entertainment or a wedding, and take no notice of it because you are g...

Butler with invitation

The Etiquette of Invitations

December, 1892 The joint committee on ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition has very sensibly set a fashion, which if followed will ...

Victorian Home Decoration

An Old-Fashioned Mirror

The original mirror from which our illustration is drawn hangs in the same hall in which stand the settle and clock already shown in these col...

Etiquette Notes

Etiquette Notes – October 1892

It is both proper and polite to tell a lady or even a gentleman quietly if there is anything amiss about their dress.  For example, if a ...

The Chaperone | Old Magazine Article

The Chaperone

The Ladies World – October, 1892 The duty of a chaperone is to prevent the possibility of gossip. The German equivalent for gossip, t...

Victorian Dining Room

Dining Room and Chamber Fashions

Dining Room and Chamber Fashions in China, August, 1892 The dinner bell has long since suffered a decadence, and it is rarely now that it s...

Victorian Tea Table

Etiquette Notes – June 1892

For a five-o’clock tea-table to stand permanently in the drawing room or library, a pretty tea equipage is required, consisting of a ...