Thread: 1880s-1890s shave?

Originally Posted by SRNewb

Yaayyy for pig fat!
I remember as a child Mom used to keep an empty coffee can on the stove. When she fried bacon in the morning, the drippings went in that pan, which was later used to fry with. Mmmm mmmm that's good eatin'!

Yes, I was thinking the same thing too. Nothing like fried eggs done in bacon grease. Health nuts would freak at the thought.

Bob

The health nuts stress out so much about all kinds of things that they and everyone else should do to be healthy, they'll probably die of a heart attack when they're 40 because of all the stress trying to stay healthy, LOL.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Could I also get the recipe for the beans? Sounds delicious, and 1880ish?

Of course!
Pretty simple.
Put 1/2 kg of brown or black beans on water for about 2 hours, or until the grains start to swell up.
Chop a medium-sized onion, 4 or 5 good-sized garlic bulbs and a big red malagueta pepper without seeds. Keep all separated.
Cut a 1/2 pound portuguese smoked sausage (paio) in 1/4 inch thick slices.
In the pan, put a table spoon of lard and let it get hot.Things are tricky now. Keep a liter jar of water ready.
Put the onion on the lard and observe it get translucent. As soon it turns translucent, put the garlic. Keep stirring with a wood spoon. When onion start to get brownish (golden!), add the sausage and pepper - keep stirring for about a minute.
Fish the beans from the bath as dry as possible and start to add it to the mix. Don't add all the beans at same time. Keep things hot, and keep stirring! The idea is to avoid cool down the mix without letting anything burn. This will render a slightly fried moist beans on mixture.
Add water to cover the mix, plus about 1/3 volume.
Let the thing cook until beans are soft. I like mine as muddy as possible, but not solid. Slurry with floating sausage slices is the word.
Serve it with fried egg and pork ribs.
Prepare to hear Milady whining about the smoked and smelly house.
Keep Outback Mike and his recovering hearth away!

Originally Posted by Matheus

Add the pepper with the sausage.

People back in the old days & even today use hog lard to cook with. It's a lot more healthy for ya than most things they try to make us eat these days. I have always loved frying or scrambling eggs in bacon grease. That is why I would cook my bacon first. I even liked to put some chopped red onion in the bacon grease & once i could smell the onions, I would put the eggs in with a little salt & pepper & sometimes some cheese. Heat some tortillas, flour or corn & ya got a tasty meal with bacon, egg, fried onions & oh...................mmmmmmmmmmmm, yummy good!

I also like to make a good pot of beans in a Crock Pot using pinto, black or red beans, sometimes all. I would put some sliced venison sausage in with it & season to taste with salt, pepper, garlic & a couple other spices. I would put it in a bowl over some rice & that's some good eating'.

Back in those days, people also didn't have that much as far as possessions go. They had their basic cooking utensils, beds, furniture along with a pot bellied stove for cooking & heating. Some might have had 2, one for cooking & one in another room for heating, if they had another room. Many were just a one room house. Others had more rooms with doors & if they didn't have doors, they used a blanket or whatever they could use like a fur from an animal.
They had more time on their hands so they sat around whittling or thinking of ideas to make life simpler. They had their basic chores to do like milk the cow, make butter or whatever & the ones who had larger pieces of land did ranching, raising livestock & farming. They didn't have TV's or computers back then so they used their minds in other ways like Henry Ford was busy trying to perfect the automobile & the Wright brothers were building a lighter than air machine that could fly. Straight razors had already been invented as we all know & one company that was already in business in the US was the American Knife Co. in Plymouth Hollow, Connecticut who started in 1849 if I remember right. I have a razor or two from them.

A little later than 1890's but Faulkner often used barbers and barbershops in his stories. If I remember, the stories gave one the impression that if you shaved daily, most had it done at barbershops. One of the big events of the week was your Saturday shave at the shop.


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I have a N&R Dodge SR probably from 1850s, I don't know the date but I bought it due to it's age. Although it's condition is very far from it's pretty days back then, I shave with it regularly and it gives me very smooth and comfortable shave.Back in that time I think, they had similar quality razors, shaving soaps and hot water in barbershops, people who can afford it went to the barbershops regularly which indicates social statue. If person didn't have chance, they had to settle for less, I mean less comfortable and luxurious shave not less smooth or close. We can shave off of 8k natural stones(cotis, thuris etc.) with handmade soaps or even plain water, it is matter of comfort IMHO. This is my N&R Dodge SR

Just watched High Plains Drifter again. lol. The way he strops his razor is something else. It looks so badass I think the razor would be scared not to get sharp. haha. Note the flimsy shaving foam. If they went through with the shave he'd be in for some serious pain.

I never realised, the cast is basically the same as Every Which Way but Loose. Just missing Sondra Locke. Which was a good thing, imho.

Originally Posted by Chinaski

I have a N&R Dodge SR probably from 1850s, I don't know the date but I bought it due to it's age. Although it's condition is very far from it's pretty days back then, I shave with it regularly and it gives me very smooth and comfortable shave.Back in that time I think, they had similar quality razors, shaving soaps and hot water in barbershops, people who can afford it went to the barbershops regularly which indicates social statue. If person didn't have chance, they had to settle for less, I mean less comfortable and luxurious shave not less smooth or close. We can shave off of 8k natural stones(cotis, thuris etc.) with handmade soaps or even plain water, it is matter of comfort IMHO. This is my N&R Dodge SR

That's a sweet blade!

Originally Posted by SRNewb

That's a sweet blade!

Thank you my friend.

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