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This week’s crème de la crème — August 31, 2024

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog posts***** FamilySearch Experimental Labs Search of Canadian Probate Records and Origins of the People Map by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. FamilySearch Full-Text Searching of Ontario Probate and Land Records by … Continue reading →

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Celebrate Food Day Canada by exploring old family recipes to connect with your heritage

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Gail Dever

I inherited my mother’s personal collection of recipes, gathered together in a three-ring binder. It’s easy to tell which recipes she made the most often because they’re the ones covered in smudges of chocolate, sauce, and other ingredients that went … Continue reading →

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Travel back in time with McGill University’s cookbook collection that spans 350 years

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Gail Dever

McGill University Library’s digital collection of 264 cookbooks on Internet Archive, curated for Thanksgiving, provides a delightful look into what our ancestors were serving and eating back in the day, from as early as 1615 to 1966. These cookbooks particularly … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — September 19, 2020

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsSecond World War RCAF Operations Record Books and Second World War RCAF Operations Record Books by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. “Annexed by Their Own Act”: The Nova Scotian Exodus by … Continue reading →

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How to carry fish alive a great distance — and other old Maritime recipes

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Gail Dever

In case anyone in 1791 needed to know how to carry fish alive a great distance, an item in the Halifax Weekly Chronicle that year explained how. Take an ounce of white sugar-candy, and as much salt-petre as is about the size … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — December 23, 2017

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs British Columbia Ancestors: viHistory by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba & Saskatchewan Update by Sherri on CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Update. Introducing The Ryerson Index by Shauna … Continue reading →

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New website with free recipes from Nova Scotia and the Titanic

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Gail Dever

Want to cook like a Nova Scotian? Do you reminisce about the food you ate while visiting Peggy’s Cove? Looking for recipes based on menus served aboard the Titantic? Just in time for the holiday season, Halifax Public Libraries and … Continue reading →

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Newfoundland recipes for Figgy Duff and Gull S**t Muffins

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Gail Dever

Since I wrote yesterday about an online archive of old Jewish recipes, it seemed only fair to share a National Post article about Newfoundland recipes for Figgy Duff and Gull S**t Muffins. Baking these recipes may help you connect with your … Continue reading →

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The Jewish Food Society creates online recipe archive

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Gail Dever

The Jewish Food Society, a new non-profit, aims to be an archive of Jewish recipes from around the world — before they are lost forever. It wants to preserve old family recipes. “I realized there is an urgency in capturing … Continue reading →

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Mince pie with boiled ox tongue, anyone?

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Gail Dever

If eating boiled ox tongue in mince pie is your cup of tea, you will enjoy making the recipe the Essex Record Office in England found in a book from the 1700s. The original owner of the recipe book lived … Continue reading →

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