ChiaraJul 18, 2025
Ricki Yasha Tarr
One of the things I love about recipes is that it's a way to literally relive history. I can make a recipe from Ancient Rome, and experience something that a person experienced thousands of years ago.
Jul 18, 2025 at 12:30amWeb
Show threadAnnie in ProgressJul 18, 2025

@RickiTarr

Did you just slay a boar or something?

Hi Ricki 🤗

Show threadSimon RolfmoreJul 18, 2025

@RickiTarr I know what you mean for sure, but what I love about them is almost the opposite: every time I make a recipe it’s subtly different.

The ingredients have slightly different flavours due to ripeness and variation, I’ll measure most things pretty inaccurately etc.

Every meal is unique.

Show threadplayinginthedirtJul 18, 2025
@RickiTarr I'm looking for a good 1800's gruel recipe
Show threadFishercatJul 18, 2025
@pitd @RickiTarr Gruel is last night's stew thickened with oatmeal. And it's delicious. (Assuming you made good stew.)
Show threadplayinginthedirtJul 18, 2025
@Fishercat @RickiTarr If you have to thicken stew the next day, it was soup.
Show threadFishercatJul 18, 2025
@pitd @RickiTarr *chuckle*
Show threadJoe  Jul 18, 2025
@pitd @Fishercat @RickiTarr ,lol
Show threadCainmark Does Not Comply 🚲Jul 18, 2025

@pitd @RickiTarr

More?! You want more?!

Show threadTheosoreassJul 18, 2025
@pitd @RickiTarr take a pint of water from a uk river,add a dash of pepper,salt to taste.that recipe for gluten free gruel straight from our government website endorsed by keir himself🤪
Show threadFishercatJul 18, 2025

@RickiTarr Project Gutenberg has an English translation of Apicius:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm

Show threadDr.UbertroutJul 18, 2025
@RickiTarr
The oldest of my two younger sisters and I used go to libraries and search old newspaper micro-fiches for recipes from the late 1800s and early 1900s. We found some really interesting stuff, my favorite being a Vanilla Cream Pie.
Show threadmizblueprintJul 18, 2025
@RickiTarr
In a driveway moment in the 90's, I wrote down a recipe described by Laurie Colwin in an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. (NPR, WHYY). It sounded familiar, so I looked it up in a Williamsburg VA cook book reproduction. It was a grated sweet potato pudding with lots of ginger and eggs. They were making it 200+ years ago. It's a great alternative Thanksgiving recipe. There were a couple of recipes in the book collected from one of my childrens' ancestors in about 1800.
Show threadStargeezer SmithJul 18, 2025

@RickiTarr
Interesting. I get that feeling from astronomy. Like in "Done too Soon" by Neil Diamond.

They have all sweated beneath the same sun
Looked up and wondered at the same moon
And wept when it was all done
For being done too soon
For being done too soon

Anyway, aside from the song, when I look up at easily identifiable naked eye star formations or the moon, I get that feeling of a connection with the past.

Show threadurigJul 18, 2025
@RickiTarr experience heartburn?
Show threadRicki Yasha TarrJul 18, 2025
@urig The Universal Experience