Peacock roasted in its own feathers. Beer made of sulphuric acid. Bread leavened with hydrochloric acid. 144 recipes printed in earnest in real cookbooks between 1831 and 1929. Please do not make any of them.
Given these are all recipes from the 18 and 1900s pre-ww2 I find this premise is a bit distasteful.
It was a different world back then.
Kids nowadays would scoff at the fact my mum loves beef tongue or that I love liver and onions. You eat what you can get and you can afford. The people who wrote these recipes a century ago were merely documenting their survival and the foods at the time.
Given these are all recipes from the 18 and 1900s pre-ww2 I find this premise is a bit distasteful.
It was a different world back then.
Kids nowadays would scoff at the fact my mum loves beef tongue or that I love liver and onions. You eat what you can get and you can afford. The people who wrote these recipes a century ago were merely documenting their survival and the foods at the time.
You didn’t even read it. Most of these contain literal poisons