Hi, and welcome to Bones and Biscuits, a blog about food, past and present as well as some other topics that take my fancy. Historic cooking and foodways will likely be the main topic of most posts, but zooarchaeology and more modern food will also be covered.
This blog will feature my quest to develop cooking skills using past instruments and methods, as well as on my love of anachronism in cooking (and elsewhere).
I am an undergrad in anthropology running this blog in my spare time, so please bear with me if some time passes between posts. I hope you enjoy!
A Bitter-Sweet Beginning: 165 Year Old Lemon Cake
To be clear, the recipe is 165 years old, not the physical cake. I just want to start off by saying, lemons, and in fact all citrus, are very weird plants. Every citrus you can think of is some weird cross pollination of every other type of citrus, in a strange very intermingled family tree…
Prologue
Hi to whomever stumbles upon this dark corner of the web. This blog is dedicated to my strange hodge-podge of interests, from zooarchaeology (my one true love), to historic cooking, with detours through other avenues of archaeology, history, and death positivity. You can call me Keira. I am an undergrad student in anthropology, and recent…
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