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Cooking in the Archives
Personal blog · rarecooking.wordpress.comhistoryculture
Cooking in the Archives is a personal blog at rarecooking.wordpress.com about history and culture. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Links to posts that cook early modern recipes (1600-1800) in a modern kitchen. One commenter cites its mac and cheese post as evidence that the dish is older than they thought.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Updating Early Modern Recipes (1500-1800) in a Modern Kitchen
What Hacker News says?
Wow, mac & cheese has been around longer than I realized - http://rarecooking.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/maccarony-cheese...
Comment linking /2014/06/30/maccarony-cheese/
on “Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen”Submitted Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen as a story · 128 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating “Portugal cakes” from 1730 as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted “To make maccarons of valentia Almonds” (1655) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
