Soul Food & Early Black Women's Writing: The Endnotes

[@MadHatter42]

To be fair, “What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking” is probably the best cookbook title I’ve ever heard.

[@daveharrison84]

The table of contents includes ice cream. How did they make ice cream in the 1800s before refrigeration?

[@Alliterative]

There were hand-cranked contraptions that used ice & salt to cool cream etc. below freezing, and ice cream was a luxury or party item, because it took expensive ice and a lot of labour: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream#Production

[@likebot.]

Also, if you were wealthy, the first refrigerator was made in the first half of the 1800s.

[@ReidarWasenius]

Tack! Intressant information.

[@nobodysfool4444]

This is fantastic. Thank you!

[@Alliterative]

Thank you! Glad you found it interesting!

[@chantalsundaram3251]

Excellent

[@Alliterative]

Thanks!

[@englishwithbatayneh5908]

Thanks for your tremendous effort . I am so interested in etymology and i have just launched a channel in which i discuss most of topics about the history and etymology of English . I am so interested to have one to one discussion with you regarding the field of etymology in general . How can we make that possible?

[@goon143]

Do you guys know what a Scrabmagg is ? As in ' The Beautiful Scrabmagg ' a tune found in Playfords dancing master .

[@Alliterative]

Sorry, no -- it's not in the OED, and we haven't seen it before. "Scrab" can be "crab" as in crabapple, but beyond that we have no idea!

[@goon143]

@@Alliterative Thanks . I wonder if anyone knows .

[@perplexed_hapax_144]

I like this video it is cool

[@wifi-toaster]

Cool shirt 🤘

[@Alliterative]

Thanks -- glad someone noticed! :)

[@Halocon720]

Is this the longest gap between a video and an Endnote?

[@Alliterative]

Yes, though this past Hallowe'en we did put out an Endnote that went with the previous year's video. This is definitely a new record though!