1848Butterscotch Recipe Published

One of the earliest recipes for butterscotch, in the Liverpo...
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🥜 Carolina Housewife Cookbook Published

The Carolina Housewife cookbook published, including one of the earliest recipes for peanut brittle, referred to as "groundnut candy" (the term "peanut brittle" was not used until 1892).
Carolina Housewife Cookbook Published (1847)
CookbookRecipesPeanut BrittleAmerican Cuisine19th Century
United StatesUnited States

🍬 Butterscotch Recipe Published

One of the earliest recipes for butterscotch, in the Liverpool Mercury
Butterscotch Recipe Published (1848)
ButterscotchCandyConfectioneryRecipeLiverpool Mercury19th Century
United KingdomUnited Kingdom

🍿 Popcorn balls recipe appears in The Housekeeper's Encyclopedia

Popcorn balls, one of the most popular confections in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, recipe first appears in the Housekeeper's Encyclopedia by New York author E. F. Haskell, instructing to "boil honey, maple, or other sugar to the great thread; pop corn and stick the corn together in balls with the candy."
Popcorn balls recipe appears in The Housekeeper's Encyclopedia (1861)
Popcorn BallsConfectioneryRecipe19th CenturyUnited StatesCandyThe Housekeeper's Encyclopedia
United StatesUnited States

🥗 First Fruit Salad Recipe

Fruit salad. One of the first recipes for Fruit salad appeared in What to Cook and How to Eat It by Peirre Blot in New York.
First Fruit Salad Recipe (1863)
Fruit SaladRecipeCookbook19th CenturyAmerican Cuisine
United States of AmericaUnited States of America

🍹 Tom Collins Cocktail Recipe Published

Tom Collins cocktail recipe, with Old Tom gin, lime or lemon, and soda water, first published in Harry Johnson's New and Improved Bartender’s Manual, or How to Mix Drinks of the Present Style, in English and German.
Tom Collins Cocktail Recipe Published (1882)
CocktailRecipeHarry JohnsonGinSoda19th Century
United StatesUnited States

🍬 Jelly Beans Referenced in Writing

Jelly beans; first known reference in writing.
Jelly Beans Referenced in Writing (1898)
CandyConfectioneryJelly BeansSweet Treat19th CenturyAmerican Culture
United StatesUnited States