Victorian Photo Album #2, Part 2

Oh dear, it's been months since I've posted anything here. I apologize.

Here's the second half of the green photo album.

I like her forehead curls.

I wonder if it was windy when he went to get his picture taken, or if he fluffed his hair up on purpose.
The spots and dents on this photo are arranged quite nicely.

I can see the iron things holding these guys still, yet they have terrible posture.

Does anyone know what this thing is? The frame on the end appears to have a bunch of portraits in it.

This guy looks exactly like a policeman from a comedy. I can just imagine him running away from the pirates of penzance.

There were a couple of prints in the album. This one looks earlier than the photos. Maybe 1850's?

Here's a picture of opera singer Parepa Rosa, and it's one I can't find anywhere else on the internet. It's strange to find a purchased picture of a celebrity tucked into a family photo album, isn't it?

This was the second print, which looks more turn of the century.

That's all I have to post at the moment. I am sewing things, I've just been really lazy about blogging them.

Victorian Photo Album #2, Part 1

I have been lazy about blogging this summer, and I apologize. It's been a while since I posted any of the old photograph collection, so here is the first half of Victorian photo album #2.
It's the same size as the first album, but with a green cover instead of a brown one.
Unfortunately, there are no names written anywhere in this album.

What a nice crocheted shawl. Her bonnet and brooch look very interesting too.

Pagoda sleeves! These must be from the 1850's.

Poor fellow. His clothes don't fit at all.

A sloppily colorized soldier with excellent whiskers.

Fabulous! The very picture of 1870's over-the-top-ness.
And her earrings match her pendant!

That is all for now. I am still working on the frock coat, which should be finished relatively soon.

More Pages From The Surprise Cookbook c. 1868

Here are more pictures of The Surprise Cookbook. I apologize for the poor quality of some of these photographs. Click for a larger view.

They specify what the other sauces are for, but how are we to know what to use the egg sauce on?

Boiled squash and pumpkin? Why? They taste SO much better if you bake them.

I have never heard of either of these things.

Potato snow does sound very pretty in appearance, but how would one eat it?

This is the second recipe for pumpkin, several pages after the first. This happens more than once in this book. Cookbooks should not be this disorganized.
At the end of the book there is a chapter called Additional Recipes, which seems like an afterthought. It has recipes that should be in the other sections, but they're just jumbled together in one, as if they were forgotten when the rest of the book was being written.

I have never tasted them together but I seriously doubt that lettuce and gravy are compatible.

 Yay, it's the bread and cake section!

Where do these names come from?

I love how unspecific these are. How much is "some"?

The way the cup cake recipes are presented is quite amusing.

Oh dear, I just realized that some of these recipes are only half here because they continue onto the next page and I didn't photograph all the pages, sorry! I do want to make the whole book available somehow, so that you can see all of the recipes.

A drachm. I haven't seen that measurement anywhere before.

I see a typo!

The pastry section has some very nice illustrations of fruit. Thankfully they have not been scribbled on with crayon like most of the meat diagrams.

Some of these sound quite good. I'd like to try a few.