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Obscurities: Chocolate Sets

By: Cheri March 13, 2022December 9, 2023

All The Stuff, Comestibles, Drinks, How-To, Obscuritieschocolate sets, drinking chocolate, hot cocoa, how to

Let’s take a look at the Chocolate Set. I covered the rise of chocolate in my post on the chocolate spoon, but I want to say a few more words here. If you want to know more about hot chocolate, my post on Chocolate Spoons gives a little more back story. This will just cover…

Punch: Non-Alcoholic Punch (that you can make sassy)

By: Cheri March 14, 2021April 7, 2024

Drinks, Etiquette, How-To, Partiesantique recipes, parties, punch, vintage recipes

Soooo… I was trying to find a family recipe for punch that didn’t contain alcohol and there weren’t any. I think this may be because by the time my brother and I were children, there were no other kids in the family. So there never was a need for non-alcoholic punch. I’ve yet to go…

The Cocktail Party: Part 1

By: Cheri November 8, 2020January 24, 2023

Drinks, Etiquette, How-To1890s, 1950s, 1960s, cocktails, etiquette

When you think of a cocktail party, you probably think of the 1960’s and in many senses you would be right. The 1960’s were the heyday of the home cocktail party. While we are living though a second golden age of cocktails, we generally go out to a bar or restaurant to drink, (at least…

All The Stuff: Chocolate Spoons

By: Cheri March 29, 2020December 8, 2023

All The Stuff, Coffee, Drinks, Etiquette, Tablesettingsdrinking chocolate, etiquette, hot chocolate, silver, table settings, tableware

Victorian’s liked to have a tool for every purpose. Chocolate spoons were used with drinking chocolate or what we would now call hot chocolate. Victorian’s loved drinking chocolate so much there are reports of milk chocolate, dark chocolate and even white chocolate being melted and served warm. Chocolate sets also contained a muddler spoon. This was a…