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Community Bread Baking

In the old days, if you wanted bread, you had to bake it yourself. Today, we have grown accustomed to store bought bread, but there…

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1914 Method For Keeping Pumpkins

How can you make a pumpkin keep for the winter? I found this little gem in a 1914 newspaper. I have honestly never tried to…

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10 Gruesome Tapeworm Realities From Over 100 Years Ago

In 1902, a 34-year-old man was admitted to the London Hospital for having a tapeworm. He didn’t survive the medication they gave him and upon…

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10 Strange Bread Baking Beliefs and Superstitions

Bread, long a symbol of plenty, was an important part of people’s diets for well over 2,000 years (long before the gluten free diets of…

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