CHC Publications and Video Productions
Baking for the Victorian Christmas Table:
Plum Pudding & Mincemeat Tarts!
A beautiful video presentation filmed at Montgomery’s Inn in Etobicoke, Ontario, featuring CHC board member and historic cook Sherry Murphy demonstrating recipes from Eliza Acton’s Modern Cookery for Private Families.
The video includes a link to an extensive downloadable recipe booklet containing ten historical and traditional recipes (original text and modern interpretations) for Christmas Pudding, Mincemeat Tarts, Raspberry Sauce, Plum Cake, Gingerbread, Queen Cakes and Mackeroons. Note: This booklet contains four recipes not found in the Victorian Christmas baking recipe collection described below. Price: $23 (general). $18 (CHC members). No GST/HST applies.
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Culinary Chronicles:
Occasional Papers of the Culinary Historians of Canada
New Series, Issue 5
“Sugars, Sweets, Syrups”: In relating Canadians’ bittersweet relationship to sugar, 13 authors collectively make a significant contribution to Canada’s culinary history.
- Andrea McKenzie delights in the many cake varieties in the life and fiction of L.M. Montgomery
- Roger Pickavance tells us about his decades-long research into the traditional sweets of Newfoundland
- Georges Arsenault describes the desserts once enjoyed at weddings in Acadie
- Brandi Adams illustrates Canada’s sugar ration in Second World War advertising
- Sara Harrison investigates the terrible tale of the collapsed wall at Neilson’s chocolate factory
- Alexandra Kim ponders recreating a 1770 recipe for Chocolate Puffs to understand its direction “rough side upwards”
“Mini Memories”:
- Cassandra Marsillo wonders whether we want a Jos Louis cake
- Donna Muzyka recalls her mother’s fabulous flaming Cherries Jubilee
- Sherri Riehl reminisces about being the daughter of an award-winning beekeeper
- Cathy Boucher Enright celebrates her mother, other RCAF wives, and their baking
- Licia Canton takes maple syrup to friends when travelling abroad
- Suzanne Evans plays with words around her mother’s cold sweat pie
- Anna Mercuri Miaolo describes how her mother enjoyed an affinity for a special cake without sensing her daughter’s unspoken antipathy
COMING SOON! Price: $10 CAD (no GST/HST applies). Free to CHC members in good standing.
Culinary Chronicles:
Occasional Papers of the Culinary Historians of Canada
New Series, Issue 4
Six more original essays that dig deep into Canadian cookbook history.
- Carolyn Crawford relates how her quest to collect Peel cookbooks became an obsession for Canadian cookbooks
- Mark Prudden tells us about sleuthing for a mysterious supplement to a Cape Breton cookbook
- Anita MacKinnon relates the herstory of a Nova Scotia cookbook
- Sarah Harrison dives into comparing three editions of Ogilvie’s Book for a Cook
- Grace Evans unearths some new info about Hamilton’s first cookbook
- Jacquelyn Sundberg explores three community cookbooks through fragrance
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Culinary Chronicles:
Occasional Papers of the Culinary Historians of Canada
New Series, Issue 3
Personal stories about why we love cookbooks and about why we make the effort to find, save, conserve and share them with fellow Canadians.
- Fiona Lucas describes CHC’s relationship with cookbooks
- Elda Prudden tells how she became an avid collector of cookbooks
- Brenda Philip and Mary-Anne MacDougall reveal how they built the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection at the University of the Fraser Valley in B.C.
- Holly Benison introduces her digital thesis on recipes from The Female Emigrant’s Guide
- Joyce Sirski-Howell recounts how being an accidental collector of Ukrainian-Canadian cookbooks became serious research
- Gary Draper looks back on his decision to donate his cookbooks to the University of Guelph
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Culinary Chronicles:
Occasional Papers of the Culinary Historians of Canada
New Series, Issue 2
Reflecting on the theme “Forgotten Foods and Flavours,” the authors excavate their memories and the history books:
- Victoria Dickenson on how her Aunt Dorothy learned to cook
- Sarah Harrison on catching frogs for dinner
- John Ota on making gelatine with his mother and Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Fiona Lucas on her food memories of the 1960s and ’70s
- Donna Giese on knishes
- Jennifer Meyer on the small but mighty calamansi
- Peter Myers on summer foods circa 1940–46
- Plus: butter tarts, summer bounty, fresh strawberries and birthday cake
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Culinary Chronicles:
Occasional Papers of the Culinary Historians of Canada
New Series, Issue 1
The nine papers that comprise this 76-page issue were first presented by CHC at the Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conference, hosted online in May 2021 by the University of Guelph in Ontario. They include:
- Chantal Véchambre on Acadian cooking in the early decades of settlement
- Gary Gillman on Margaret Simpson, a pioneer publican-brewer of Upper Canada
- Fiona Lucas on Catharine Parr Traill’s nine kitchens
- John Ota on two of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s kitchens
- Carolyn Crawford on the manuscript cookbooks of the five Berry sisters of Chinguacousy Township, Ontario
- Suzanne Evans on how The Five Roses Cook Book aided Ethel Mulvany, a Canadian POW in Singapore
- Nathalie Cooke on the resilience of rural sisters in arms; Samantha George on the WWII campaign by Canadian rural women to make jam for British families
- Shirleyan English & Bonnie Sitter on the “Farmerettes”
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Salt-Rising Bread
A scholarly, annotated and illustrated recipe handout including modern instructions, prepared by Fiona Lucas and based on Catharine Parr Traill’s Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic, edited by Natalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2017, pp. 344–47). Free download; click on the title to access your copy.
Baking for the Victorian Christmas Table:
A recipe collection for contemporary cooks
A downloadable 21-page PDF booklet based on five years of hands-on workshops, containing a dozen modern interpretations of 18th- and 19th-century recipes for traditional holiday treats that would have been prepared in Canada during the Victorian period, including Mincemeat Tarts, Plum Pudding, Gingerbread and Twelfth Cake. Note: This booklet contains six recipes not found in the Victorian Christmas video handout above.
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