1860s Period Foods - Including Good Down Home Eatin'

[BettyO]

Thought that I'd start a NEW thread for our interest in Period, Southern and Northern Foods -

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Maddie -

Candies popular in the 1860s were Necco Wafers; referred to as "Peerless Wafers" until after the war. They were popular since 1847

http://www.necco.com/Candy/Wafers/History.aspx

Whitman's Sugar Plums had been popular since 1854

http://www.russellstover.com/jump.jsp?it...itemID=206

Nonpareils (Chocolate wafers with little white sugar sprinkles) have been around since 1844

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpareils

licorice, peppermint and horehound hard candies were also popular as was taffy and fudge, Turkish delight, rock candy, Peppermint humbugs & peppermint sticks, jelly beans, salt water taffy, and sugared almonds"

http://www.squidoo.com/civil-war-childs-life

A good period cook book, The Complete Confectioner,1800, is available for those who wish to sample period sweets -

http://books.google.com/books?id=A34EAAA...&q&f=false

Another cook book - The Improved Housewife,1851

http://books.google.com/books?id=gptko1Fu_8QC&oe=UTF-8

And a receipt for Molasses Candy: