tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2072263124603121502024-03-05T04:12:59.883-08:00The Cup That CheersWelcome to The Cup That Cheers, a blog for tea lovers, discussing tea, history, food and cooking, Victoriana and Edwardiana, vintage fashion and culture, and various other related topics. Founded by The South Bay Ladies' Tea Guild, in the San Francisco Bay area of California, USA.South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.comBlogger364125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-13368836734029453322020-11-26T13:52:00.013-08:002021-01-11T17:15:40.937-08:00Historic Cooking: Thanksgiving Pudding from 1925.Image from http.clipart.edigg.comHello again; here we are near the end of a year that has been absolutely abnormal! Things have changed even more for me; I was laid off from my job at the school in mid-August, due to increased costs related to the Covid-19 pandemic, and have been unemployed since then. As I have found whenever I need to look for a job, I am overqualified for all South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-1439803248043067672020-08-07T15:20:00.001-07:002021-01-11T17:12:27.119-08:00Clothing the Californio: The Lecture -- part of CoCoVid and Virtual FrockCon 2020, and other news
Elizabeth Urbach inCalifornio costume.
Hello again! I have a few pieces of news to share!
First thing: The Cup That Cheers is now also a YouTube channel! I've gotten some messages over the years, telling me that some readers wish they could see me make the historic recipes and some of the historic costumes, that I've written up and posted here on the blog, and this South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-80865647718372705652020-06-02T13:55:00.000-07:002020-06-02T19:33:32.168-07:00Historic Cooking: Artichokes, Italian Style from 1898.
This is another entry for the Historical Food Fortnightly project, which is now being continued on Facebook.
Artichokes, Italian Style.
From _El Cocinero Espanol_, 1898.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
The Challenge: April 22-May 5: Flower Power. A
dish that is floral, flowery, or flour-y, as you desire.
A month late in posting, but better late than never! It took me a while to South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-51009344909041429202020-05-16T20:49:00.001-07:002020-05-16T21:25:44.148-07:00Blogging during the Quarantine
image from FreeDigitalPhotos.com
Oh my goodness! So much has changed since the last post! I think that everyone in the world (or almost everyone, at least), is going through this unprecedented experience: just about the whole world is shut down (or just opening back up), and most of us are sheltering in place by not leaving our homes except to get groceries and attend to other South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-15762334026748841042019-12-31T23:28:00.000-08:002019-12-31T23:29:47.587-08:00Posting again after a year ...
Image from http.clipart.edigg.com
I haven't entirely forgotten this blog ... really ....
So many things have changed since I last posted -- on December 31st of 2018! Most important among the changes is another new place to live. I moved in about 6 weeks ago, but I'm still unpacking things; I have almost all of my possessions out of my storage unit, however, and I need to getSouth Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-92187783984641486732018-12-31T09:39:00.000-08:002018-12-31T09:54:39.241-08:00Historic Cooking: Fig Bread Pudding from 1907 and the history of Figgy Pudding.
from AntiqueClipArt.com.
Happy New Year! "Time flies ..." and all that. I have settled in to my new place -- a vintage Airstream trailer from 1967 -- but haven't got the oven up and working yet (it runs on propane and involves open flame every time you use it ...) so the only historic cooking I've done so far has been on the stovetop (also propane, involving open flame) and I South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-24010320338986188552018-07-05T17:56:00.000-07:002018-12-31T09:40:16.950-08:00Historic Cooking: Fourth of July Pudding from 1916.
Fourth of July Pudding. Photo: Liz Raven.
The Redone Challenge: Today in History (June 29-July 12, 2014) Make a dish based on or inspired by a momentous occasion that took place on the day you made it. Get creative - you would be surprised by all the interesting things that happened every single day!
The Recipe:
A Fourth of July Luncheon. To be served buffet style or on the porch.South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-22506171092151457642018-04-06T20:23:00.000-07:002018-04-07T00:28:05.534-07:00Historic Cooking: Hannah Glasse's Rich Cake from 1774.
Hannah Glasse's Rich Cake from
The Art of Cookery, 1774.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach
The Redone Challenge: #21: Party Foods (October 7 - October 20, 2016) If there’s a party, there has to be food! Pick a dish meant to be served to a crowd, or at a festive gathering, and show your work!
At the school where I work, the 5th-grade classes spend a whole school day studying the South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-26538418792314584492018-01-27T17:22:00.002-08:002018-06-23T14:45:38.284-07:00Historic Cooking: Californio-style Chocolate from ca. 1777.
A cup of Californio-style Chocolate.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
The Redone Challenge(s): Sweet Sips and Potent Potables April 5 - April 18, 2015, and History Detective (January 29 - February 11, 2016)
Foodways from the Spanish and Mexican colonization period of California’s history is not a very widely-talked about subject. The documents that contain the South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-16777875910350210942017-12-20T16:30:00.000-08:002017-12-20T16:35:35.550-08:00Historic Cooking: To make a brown Fricasey from 1777.
Hannah Glasse's Brown Fricasey.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
The Redone
Challenge: If They’d Had It… (November 2 - November 15, 2014)
Have you ever looked through a cookbook from another era
and been surprised at the modern dishes you find? Have you ever been surprised
at just how much they differ from their modern counterparts? Recreate a dish
which is still around today, even if it may South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-53683459987172965062017-11-01T22:57:00.000-07:002017-11-03T22:26:04.231-07:00Historic Cooking: Halloween Fruit Cake from 1920
Halloween Fruit Cakes.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach
I realized, as I was going through my past food history posts, that while I have made various recipes from the 1920s (like cheese straws and Club sandwiches), I had never written them up or taken photos. While I will have to re-create the cheese straws and Club sandwiches at another time, I recently discovered a cookbook on South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-1499105658635660302017-10-10T23:41:00.000-07:002018-10-08T12:57:21.745-07:00Historic Cooking: Chicken Saltato con Fungi from 1916
Chicken Saltado con Fungi ingredients.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach
Since the Historical Food Fortnightly Challenge project officially ended, and no new challenges will be posted, those of us who have completed some of the challenges in the past decided that we would continue the project on an informal basis. We choose a challenge from the whole list of previous themes, and either complete them South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-61132083460612038712017-06-12T23:33:00.000-07:002017-06-12T23:38:45.712-07:00Historic Cooking: Moss Rose Cake, ca. 1948.
Orange flower water.
Photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
I recently had a birthday, and as I have been doing for the past several years, I decided to make my own birthday dessert. My family means well, but for most of my life they always got me those cakes from the grocery store bakery section, which always tasted stale and chemical-y, and I really dislike them; I would always be "forced" to take South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-59299146915327560832017-05-16T18:58:00.000-07:002018-05-06T13:19:42.727-07:00Historic Cooking: Capon with Oranges, 1596.
Capon (Chicken) with Oranges. Photo: Elizabeth Urbach
In the History of Royal Food and Feasting course last week, we took a look at the 16th century, and English aristocratic and royal food of Elizabeth I's court. I was able to complete one of the suggested recipes: Capon with Oranges. Here is the original recipe:
Take your capon and set him on the fire as before with South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-84296457530241582122017-05-04T23:23:00.000-07:002017-05-04T23:39:32.958-07:00Historic cooking: Fylettys en Galentyne, c. 1430.
Fylettes en Galentyne. Photo:
Elizabeth Urbach.
So, I signed up for the History of Royal Food and Feasting course on FutureLearn, again, in the hopes that I will be able to complete the recipe challenges/assignments this time around! After all, it is the 3rd time I've taken it, and I get a few more done each time ...
Week 1 focuses on the Tudors, and the court and kitchen of South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-36603030433516885602017-02-14T22:04:00.000-08:002017-02-14T22:04:34.075-08:002017 is up and running, and the 2017 Cat Rescue Tea Fundraiser was a success!
Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr (1804), from a paintingby J. Mund ca. 1904. Wikimedia Commons.
Hello everyone! I hope you've found a lot to be thankful for in this new year!
I am one of those people who didn't have high hopes for the outcome of the recent U.S. presidential election (no matter who won), and I am also thoroughly sickened by the way Americans have turned on one South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-1699286607915543932016-12-28T19:02:00.000-08:002016-12-28T19:02:22.329-08:00Soft Gingerbread from _The Bride's Cook Book_, 1915.
photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
Since I've had this week off between Christmas and New Year's I've had a bit of time to do some baking. There is construction going on in the kitchen, so I have to wait until the workers go home in the evening before I can clean up all the dust and grime, and cook anything; I've also been fighting a bad cold for over a week anyway, so I've been spending South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-55692034791780723042016-12-26T14:35:00.000-08:002016-12-26T14:39:44.073-08:00A long-awaited update!
Me and two friends in 1920s
costume at the local Egyptian
Museum, September 2016.
Photo: Ann Morton.
Hello everyone in blog-land! "I'm not dead yet!" as goes the line from Monty Python's _Holy Grail_ ... As you may have surmised, things have been changing around here, but hopefully I'll be settled for a good while and can get back to my cooking, costuming, and general historical South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-5764567733507305492016-10-30T17:29:00.000-07:002016-10-30T17:29:30.625-07:00Slowly catching up ...
photo from www.e-Cobo.com.
AUTUMN DAYS. BY
LOTTIE LINWOOD.
‘Tis Autumn time! the summer flowers
Have faded ‘neath its golden feet;
The birds have left their shady bowers,
And winds chime mournfully and sweet;
The maple boughs, whose folded leaves
Have whispered through the summer days
Like bright-winged birds, around the eaves
Are flitting in the sun’s pale rays;
I South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-11511716270920465212016-06-26T02:43:00.000-07:002016-07-03T22:50:12.360-07:00Historical Food Fortnightly and A History of Royal Food and Feasting -- Tartes owt of Lente
ingredients for Tarte owt of Lente. Photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
So, I haven't exactly fallen off the end of the earth (again), but I haven't had much energy after working all day at the school. Now that summer has arrived, though, I'm only working half-days at the summer school, and also taking two online classes through FutureLearn. One class is called The History of Royal South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-15865703363892655662016-03-05T21:16:00.000-08:002016-03-10T23:54:26.061-08:00Historical Sew Monthly: A Cap with a Pleated Ruffle
_Plucking the Turkey_ by Henry Walton,
1776, Tate Gallery.
I won't be able to keep up with all the challenges this year, and will probably be finishing up the blog post and putting it online after the deadline on whichever challenges I can complete, but hopefully people will enjoy seeing the results anyway! Here is the challenge for February, in which I make a simple 18th century cap South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-16817256264721071872016-01-31T23:03:00.000-08:002016-02-02T23:04:39.760-08:00Historical Sew Monthly -- Procrastination (how appropriate!): A pre-Gold Rush California day dress
Version 1.0 of the California day dress ca. 1838.
The Challenge: Procrastination (January 2016), Out of Your Comfort Zone (June 2015), and Stashbusting (March 2015). I didn't realize it until last month, but I neglected to publish the blog post in 2015 for the Out Of My Comfort Zone and Stashbusting Challenges, which were part of the original reason for this dress being made! 7 South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-26878495993391361852015-12-27T21:18:00.000-08:002015-12-28T12:11:13.129-08:00The new year approaches!
clipart from Webweaver.nu
Well, Christmas Day has come and gone, and I don't know about you, but I'm never ready for it to be over! It's always a let-down to me, when all the preparation and holiday spirit is finished after one day; I much prefer the older tradition of 12 Days of Christmas! It's not like there's not enough treats to last at least half that long, plus, I always runSouth Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-70517677958401658702015-11-28T10:43:00.000-08:002015-11-28T10:43:12.294-08:00Holiday catch-up.
Thanksgiving Day--The Dinner_Harper's Weekly_, November 1858
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope you had a wonderful day, whether you spent it with family, or had a "Friendsgiving" with good friends instead of relatives! I'm still adjusting to the new living situation and job, and unfortunately, one of the things that comes with working with children, is getting sick! South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207226312460312150.post-67873997768262882782015-09-27T23:09:00.001-07:002015-09-27T23:09:05.470-07:00Back from the San Francisco International Tea Festival!
Ferry Building Marketplace, San Francisco.Photo: Elizabeth Urbach.
Today was the 4th annual San Francisco International Tea Festival, at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, and it was a fun day, although I did wish there was more to the festival than 15 to 20 vendors and 5 lectures. I did get to taste some really interesting teas, and purchased one of them, a Taiwanese black tea South Bay Ladies' Tea Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16270038375307806132noreply@blogger.com6