Thanksgiving

The turkey’s journey from the Atlantic to the early modern Islamic world

The early modern precursor to turducken: Adapting an old recipe to make mini pies

Before the Thanksgiving turkey came the banquet peacock

Much Ado About Stuffing: Recreating an early modern stuffing recipe
Photo credit: Brittany Diliberto, Bee Two Sweet Today, turkey and stuffing are central fare on the holiday table. But turkeys weren’t even known in England until the 1520s, when they were introduced by explorers returning from the Americas. Turkey was…

Savory biscuits from a 17th-century recipe

From the archive to the oven: How to make a sweet potato pudding
“Let the sky rain potatoes… I will shelter me here.” Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor is referring here to a food that had but recently arrived to England, but was already on its way to popularity. A team of Folger researchers…

Recipe: How to make a sweet potato pudding
The Folger is home to the largest collection of early modern western European recipe books in the United States, and a team of Folger researchers recently uncovered a very early European potato recipe in our archives. This recipe, “to make a…